DVD Review: Lost: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray]: Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Emilie de Ravin, Dominic Monaghan, Harold Perrineau, Michael Emerson, .: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: Lost: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray]: Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Emilie de Ravin, Dominic Monaghan, Harold Perrineau, Michael Emerson, .: Movies & TV

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Product Description
Lost is the ultimate TV series to experience in high definition with mind blowing 1080p picture and 5.1 uncompressed sound. The multiple Emmy Award winning drama reaches new heights in its spectacular second season as the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover they are not alone in their battle against the Others and a contested decision to open the hatch reveals a new realm of mystery and intrigue.

Bonus Feature Include: audio commentaries, Fire & Water: Anatomy of an episode, Lost on location, the world according to Sawyer, canine castaway, flashbacks, deleted scenes, bloopers, mysteries, theories, and conspiracies, secrets from the hatch

Inside The Hatch And Taking A Prisoner,

By Zachary Koenig “K-Dawg” (Fergus Falls, MN) -

After an incredibly succesful and compelling first season, LOST returned the following fall with another jam-packed slate of episodes filled with mystery, character development, and action.

Picking right up where the season one finale left off, the mysterious hatch is explored throughout this second season, ultimately leading to solving the mystery of why Oceanic 815 went down in the first place. Also, one of the mysterious “Others” (the ones who took young Walt off the boat in the season one finale) is captured by the “Losties” and his interrogation (mainly due to Michael Emerson’s incredible acting) is a high point in the entire series. Finally, a new crew of Oceanic survivors is discovered, introducing a few new characters (but can they be trusted?!) into the mix.

Besides the mystery-laden plots, the background flash-backs of the cast-aways are just as dramatic and emotional as ever. Some of the most compelling episodes that come to mind involve:

-Hurley’s battle with mental illness (as well as a certain string of numbers that make him incredibly nervous)
-Jack’s relationship with his father, Christian
-It finally being revealed “What Kate Did”
-More Sun/Jin drama
-John Locke’s family is revealed
-Sawyer as continued “con man”

To conclude, this second season of LOST is just as compelling as the first season. By blending incredible character drama with great action/adventure plots and mysterious happenings, LOST continues to prove that it is still the best-written show on television.

awesome season, perfect on hd,

By Alonso G. Rebaza “gian” (Dallas, TX) -

lost may just be the best SERIES ever, looked at as a whole not per season, its like a mind blowing smart movie experience. so glad that the show is slowly developing into something noone would expect.
watch this season very closely cause it offers many important hints that are about to happen in the current season(5)
btw season 3 and 4 look AMAXING ON HD so i think its the way to go!

Another edge-of-your-seat season for one of TV’s finest shows,

By Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA) -
(TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Warning: Spoilers for both Seasons Two and Three!

Season Two of LOST was a very strong follow-up to one of the most impressive new shows in several years. It has also proven to be one of the most interesting television series on multiple grounds. For instance, it has taken the serial format to perhaps its logical extreme. If at one end of the narrative spectrum you have LAW AND ORDER, a show that each week features a completely self-contained episode that leaves no plot or dramatic conflict unresolved (a format I will confess to utterly detesting), at the other you have LOST, a series that will only complete its story when it comes to an end. Comparing these shows to literature, LAW AND ORDER could be compared to a large collection of short stories. A show like BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, which more or less told a single major story each season, could be compared to a sequence of novels. LOST, on the other hand, could be compared to a massive epic novel like WAR AND PEACE or LES MISERABLES. Is LOST a great show? Given this narrative structure, we honestly don’t know yet. It is the only show that I know that can only be properly judged when it comes to an end. We can say this: this has a chance to be one of the truly great shows in television history. What we can say so far is that Seasons One and Two have been wonderful components of what we can only hope will be a great story.

If we thought we knew what LOST was about in Season One, Season Two proved us wrong. We knew that there were people that Rousseau referred to as “the Others” and we knew there was a hatch, but little did we realize that the island was perhaps (I say “perhaps” because we still aren’t really sure) the setting for an elaborate set of social experiments, complete with covert observers. We also learned that the island was in fact home to multiple hatches, each with a distinct function. We further learned that the original group of survivors was not the only one from Flight 815 to survive the crash; we are introduced to a group of people commonly known as the Tailenders. As the season progressed, the number of new twists and revelations continued to mount. My only complaint with this has been that given the extremely large (and continually growing) cast we sometimes lose contact with the various individuals. Give a choice between a plot-driven and character-driven series, I’ll always opt for the latter. Indeed, the stated intention for LOST was for it to be a character-driven series, but I’m not sure they have always maintained the proper balance. Mainly this is simply the result of the gigantic cast.

There were many new characters in Season Two, as well as a host of guest appearances in the various flashback scenes. (On a purely personal level, I was especially delighted by the brief appearance of Wayne Pygram in the Rose and Barnard flashback episode. Pygram played one of the truly great villains in TV history as Scorpius in FARSCAPE. The delight in LOST was that he spoke in his normal accent and with minimal make up, while as Scorpius he appeared in heavy make up and spoke in a highly cultivated accent.) We had six major new characters introduced. First we met inside the hatch Henry Ian Cusick’s character Desmond, who promptly disappears until the end of the season. Although the season ends with Desmond apparently dying, the fact that Cusick has been announced as a full time cast member sort of takes the suspense out of whether he survived or not. Interestingly, Desmond’s last name is Hume, joining Locke and Rousseau as characters sharing last names with major 18th century philosophers. We then met four major new characters among the Tailenders, Michelle Rodriguez’s Ana-Lucia, Cynthia Watros’s Libby, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Mr. Eko, and Sam Anderson’s Barnard, the oft-mentioned husband of Rose. Fans of ANGEL were delighted to discover that Barnard was played by the same actor who so memorably portrayed Holland Manners, the elegant but thoroughly evil head of Wolfram and Hart. Last but certainly not least, we met one of the Others, Henry Gale, portrayed magnificently by Michael Emerson (who has been announced as a fulltime cast member for Season Three). All of these characters brought a great deal to the show, though considerable controversy arose when Rodriguez and Watros were both arrested for drunk driving. This was especially troubling in Rodriguez’s case because of prior drunk driving convictions and possible violation of probation. There is a widespread belief that both their characters’ deaths later in the season were connected with the arrests. The fact that both characters seemed to leave the show prematurely certainly bolsters that belief.

The producers have already informed us that while Season Two was about the Hatch, Season Two will be about the Others. Hopefully it will also deal with two major events from the season finale. Throughout Season Two Locke and others had diligently been resetting the timer inside the bunker, but in the finale they let it go all the way down. Show runner and co-creator Damon Lindelhof has already acknowledged that this was an incredibly important event, the ramifications to be dealt with in Season Three. He has confessed that on a scale of importance from 1 to 10, allowing the numbers to go all the way down was a 10. But perhaps even more interesting, the event triggered by the numbers going down resulted in a detectable event elsewhere in the world. The very last scene of Season Two was of two men surrounded by scientific instruments detecting the event on the island, showing for the first time that there really is still an outside world. Furthermore, one of the men then made a phone call to the woman we learned in a flashback was the extremely wealthy woman with whom Desmond was in love. In other words, she is searching for Desmond. So in a new twist Desmond could prove to be the most important character on the show.

I have to confess that Season Two did for the first time create some uneasiness for me about the show. First and foremost, I have been troubled by the deaths on the show. We all remember a time when characters were simply not killed on shows. THE X-FILES was the first show I know that killed off recurring characters, first Deepthroat, then later X, Krycek, the Elegant Man, and other supporting characters (just how many times did the CSM die?). But none of these characters were people we had come to care for deeply. Then BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (along with its spin off ANGEL) raised the stakes by killing off characters we cared about (I still remember the shock I felt when Jenny Calendar died). Now on most really good serial format shows major characters die. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA currently does this better than any other show on TV. LOST, on the other hand, has some of the worst deaths of major characters that I have ever seen. Boone’s death was the only one that seems justifiable on narrative grounds. Sharon died with much of her story left untold or unresolved. But the real crime was with the death of Ana-Lucia and Libby. Granted many fans did not like Michelle Rodriguez’s character and there was a very real chance that she was going to be jailed because of violation of her probation, thus imperiling her involvement in Season Three. But Ana-Lucia was introduced as if she were going to be a major character, some storylines were laid out that by all rights should have taken some time to spin out, and she was introduced in the show’s structure as if she were going to be integral. Then she was just killed off. It just didn’t feel right at all. Libby’s death was nearly as bad. We were given some tantalizing hints about who she was and her background, but then was killed off even before we had a flashback episode for her. On top of all this, J. J. Abrams, who was not involved in Season Two due to his work on MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 (his involvement in Season Three will be minimal due to his upcoming STAR TREK film, which tragically might also take the real creative genius behind the show, Damon Lindelhof away from LOST), stated a few days before Ana-Lucia died that Michelle Rodriguez’s place on the show was not endangered by her arrest. All in all, the entire Rodriguez-Watros affair just smelled and I’ll confess that I believe the two were punished for their perceived sins. I’m just a big nervous now given Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s recent DUI arrest. His character is probably too established for them to cavalierly kill him off, but added to rumors that Maggie Grace’s character was killed off for some prima donna behavior on the set, one wonders if this is an unusually intolerant production. Rumors are frequently wrong, but what is incontestable is that people usually die on this show in ways that don’t especially advance the plot.

There is one cause for hope in Season Three. The end of ALIAS has freed up some of that show’s production talent to come over to LOST. Drew Goddard, one of the most spectacularly gifted writers on television (he first came to public notice in Season Seven of BUFFY, where as a new writer he wrote most of the best episodes, including the memorable “Conversations with Dead People” and the great Spike episode “Lies My Parents Told Me” while on ALIAS was tabbed to write the series finale). Goddard will almost certainly gain a reputation as LOST’s best writer. He did contribute one episode for Season One, the superb script for “Outlaws.” With the danger of much of the creative team of LOST leaving for the STAR TREK movie, the addition of someone with Goddard’s abilities is comforting.
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