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Find yourself. Find your e. Find the answers you’ve
been looking for in the explosive third season of Lost. As the
power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp
focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties
are challenged when the survivors of the c become tangled
within the lives of the Others. Plan your escape, and immerse
yourself in all 23 episodes of Season Three. Enjoy hours of
unique bonus material, including Blu-Prints and the interactive
Access: Granted, designed exclusively for Blu-ray Disc with an
unparalleled pristine picture and theatre-quality sound. You
haven’t seen Lost until you’ve seen it in high definition.
.co.uk Review
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When it aired in 2006-07, Lost's third season was split
into two, with a hefty break in between. This did nothing to help
the already weirdly disparate direction the show was taking (Kate
and Sawyer in zoo cages! Locke eating goop in a mud hut!), but
when it finally righted its course halfway through--in particular
that whopper of a finale--the drama series had left its irked fan
base thrilled once again. This doesn't mean, however, that you
should skip through the first half of the season to get there,
because quite a few questions find answers: what the Others are
up to, the impact of turning that fail-safe key, the identity of
the eye-patched man from the hatch's video monitor. One of the
series' biggest curiosities from the past--how Locke ended up in
that wheelchair in the first place--also gets its satisfying due.
(The episode, "The Man from Tallahassee," likely was a big
contributor to Terry O'Quinn's surprising--but
long-deserved--Emmy win that year.) Unfortunately, you do have to
sit through a lot of aforementioned nuisances to get there.
Season 3 kicks off with Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline
Lilly), and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) held captive by the Others;
Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Sun (Yunjin Kim), and Jin (Daniel Dae
Kim) on a mission to rescue them; and Locke, Mr. Eko (Adewale
Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and Desmond (Henry Ian Cu) in the
aftermath of the electromagnetic pulse that blew up the hatch.
Spinning the storylines away from base camp alone wouldn't have
felt so disjointed were it not for the new characters
simultaneously being introduced. First there's Juliet, a
mysterious member of the Others whose loyalty constantly comes
into question as the season goes on. Played delicately by
Elizabeth Mitchell (Gia, ER, Frequency), Juliet is in one turn a
cold-blooded killer, by another turn a sympathetic friend;
possibly both at once, possibly neither at all. (She's also a
terrific, albeit unwitting, threat to the Kate-Sawyer-Jack love
triangle, which plays out more definitively this season.) On the
other hand, there's the now-infamous Nikki and Paulo (Kiele
Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro), a tagalong couple who were cleverly
woven into the previous seasons' key moments but came to bear the
brunt of fans' ire toward the show (Sawyer humourously echoed the
sentiments by remarking, "Who the hell are you?"). By the end of
the season, at least two major characters die, another is told
he/she will die within months, major new threats are unveiled,
and--as mentioned before--the two-part season finale restores
your faith in the series. --Ellen A. Kim