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Lost - The Complete Third Season |  | Actors: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Dominic Monaghan, Terry O'Quinn
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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Format: Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Unknown)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 7
Running Time: 991 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.4
MPN: 5405303
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Theatrical Release Date: October 4, 2006
Release Date: December 11, 2007
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Genre: Television
Rating: TV14
Release Date: 11-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD
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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 Cusick) 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 humorously 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. The extras are as well-stocked as a Dharma Initiative food pantry on this seven-disc set. Commentaries by producer Damon Lindelof, show writers, and numerous cast members reveal a whole lot of juicy trivia; plus, the DVDs even provide a subtitle track for the commentary (rarely seen other than on foreign-language director's commentaries) so you won't miss a thing. "Lost Book Club" goes through the parallels between what characters are reading and the show's storylines (The Wizard of Oz and Stephen King are heavily referenced). "Lost: On Location" gives a lot of insight to some of the biggest episodes, and "Lost in a Day" gives a 24-hour glimpse at the drama's arduous production. If you're a Lost fan who gave up during this season, the bonus features alone might lure you back for the next round. --Ellen A. Kim 
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 A Couple Speed Bumps but Still Legendary Television March 11, 2010
Emmanuel C. Kim
- THE GOOD
The Episodes:
Yet another great Season of Lost. I'm glad the writers really like to take chances and this season is a great example of them really stretching themselves after an Amazing second season. In this season the Sawyer-Kate-Jake love triangle is further complicated with the addition of a forth, Juliet; we find out who the Others are; yet another layer is added to the Kwon family's history; lock grows increasing mysterious, and the aftermath of the second season finale is felt by all, especially Desmond and Charlie. Desmond, who was only briefly introduced in the second season, is further developed and becomes one of the truly interesting standout cast members of the Season. Top it all off with a stunning Season Finale, and you've got yourself a great season of Lost
Quality of Product and Features:
I believe this was the first season of Lost to be transfered to Blu-Ray, so needless to say it really is beautiful. The locations show off beautifully, the greens and blues really pop. The blacks are nice and deep and the overall picture quality is excellent; you can just feel the stubble on Jack and Sawyers face. The audio is good, not mind blowing, but gets the job done. There are some feature commentaries on select episodes. You get your usual on location features, extended scenes, and blooper reel. Not a huge selling point for me, but its nice if you like that sort of thing.
- THE BAD
The Episodes:
I remember watching this season when it aired. Unlike previous seasons there are some episodes that just feel like "fluff". They seem like episodes that were put in since the writers were obligated to make 23 episodes. The episodes I'm mentioning are actually not that bad, they were just so painful to watch when they first aired since you were waiting all week to know what the HELL was going on after last week's killer episode only to be subjected to a fluff episode. Watching the season again on Blu-Ray it really isn't so bad. This season also gets criticism for starting off heavily "others" centric. The momentum does change midway through the season and things swiftly return back to legendary television status by the later episodes.
Quality of Product and Features:
I do have a minor gripe that they did not keep the box set features and packaging consistent between all Seasons. Seasons 1 and 2, which were released later on Blu-Ray, have a different box, more subtitle and language tracks, with a better Season Play interface. Season 1 and 2 just don't look right sitting next to Season 3 on my DVD shelf. If you're sort of a box display nut, you might want to wait for the complete series box set out in August.
 great continuation of a great story March 10, 2010
Andrew Byrne (Canada)
This season gives many questions but is still a good telling of an ongoing story. Can't wait to pick up the fourth season.
"Where Do You Get Electricity?" "We Have Two Giant Hamsters Running In A Massive Wheel In Our Secret Underground Lair." February 23, 2010
Flap Jackson (State Road, NC)
After the utter lostness of Season 2, watching the first 6 or 7 episodes, you'd think you have been caught in a time-warp where Season 2 never died. But don't worry folks, the brutal tediousness of the beginning of the season was not to keep this season down, and in fact, it's provided the show some of its best & most underrated moments in the history of the show. Sure, it may be small pieces in a big puzzle, but almost every minute of the 2nd half of this season is simply enthralling.
Highlight Episodes:
Flashes Before Your Eyes
The Man from Tallahassee
Exposé
The Man Behind the Curtain
Through the Looking Glass
Season 3 is all about those mysterious Others, a group with the weirdest sense of motives, or lack thereof ever conceived on television. For the first 6 episodes, you got intimate knowledge of their polar bear cages, and the general complex of the zoological facility, which you would never really see again. But hey, you got a lot of tedious dialogue, a lot of Jack being stupid, Kate being the point in a love triangle/quadrangle. Make no mistake about it, if you did not watch these episodes back to back through the wonders of DVD, I feel sorry for you. It's hard enough dealing with this tediousness over a night, much less months.
But again, all is not Lost, because the producers saw the error in their Season 2-type ways, and sought to correct them. We got some Desmond flash-forwarding with one of the most emotional moments the serious produced up until that point. We got some AWESOME Locke dialogue and interactions with Ben Linus, including a lot of Ben Linus vs. John Locke.
And then of course, we have Nikki & Paulo. Oh, that infamous duo that was so eloquently summed up by Sawyer as, "Who the hell are you?" Sure, I wanted to slap them every moment they were breathing until they got an episode of their own, but once they did get a flashback episode, one could consider it one of the worst Lost episodes of all time, or one of its worst. There was strippers fighting crime, hilarious flashbacks that tried REALLY hard to show that this duo was there the WHOLE time (What? You didn't see them in the background doing nothing?), and really atrocious dialogue/acting. I mean, they even conceived an excuse for why Paulo was going to the bathroom in almost every previous scene we had seen him in before! But alas, these truly awful, annoying characters were literally buried alive, set to some of the most inappropriate clapping I've ever done. Oh, Nikki & Paulo, how will I ever get by without you? Just fine actually.
Heck, the producers actually made Charlie likable again, right before they killed him off. I mean, they tried so hard to make him a jerk last season, and here he is making the top 5 moments of his life, and heck, we actually like him again! What's worse is, we genuinely root for him! Oh, how easy we forget. Sure, Jack & Kate are basically the same as last season, continuing their characters' downward spiral. But hey, Sawyer is as hilarious as ever, Hurley is as lovable as ever, and hey, we finally did away with full-time flashbacks! Oh Lost, how far you came in such a short span of time.
Overall, watching this season is one of the most satisfying of the show, especially since you get such plentiful, awesome moments after sitting through so much tediousness at the beginning. Underrated, Season 3 will always have a special place in my heart, if only for the reason that it truly made what Lost became later.
Lost Season 3 February 18, 2010
Jason C. Wilkerson (Green Bay, WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen the first two seasons of Lost you may want to wait to read this review. This will either give things away, or confuse you as you watch the first two seasons.
Things start to really heat up on the island as Jack (Matthew Fox), Sawyer (Josh Holloway), and Kate (Evangeline Lilly) find themselves prisoners of "The Others", who might need more from them than they're letting on. As for the other survivors of Oceanic 815, Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and Locke (Terry O' Quinn) find another hatch which may prove that pushing a button every 108 minutes in the first hatch is futile. Could "The Others" be their chance to get off the island? Why hasn't anyone come to save the survivors of Oceanic 815? Where did "The Others" come from? What will happen if they don't push that button? What is the purpose of the Dharma Initiative? Some of these questions will be answered, and so many more will be asked by the end of the third season!
The first two seasons of Lost don't even begin to prepare you for what comes next, which is fine by me! One of the great things about Lost is it's compelling storyline that always keeps you guessing, and as time goes by I, all at once, feel that I wish I would have seen this when it first aired on TV and that I'm glad I waited. Watching all of this at once means that I don't have to wait after an episode to see what's going to happen next, but at the same time I can't really talk to anyone who's already seen the series about what happened in the episode I watched last night because they're already way beyond that. But here I am, a little closer to getting caught up with the series.
After season 2 which really felt more like a place holder between seasons 1 and 3, season 3 really gets the ball rolling on what the show's really about. Unlike the previous 2 seasons, season 3 might introduce you to new characters, but because those characters are meant to be shrouded in secrecy it doesn't do much to really introduce them. This lack of introduction allows the story to propel forward faster than the previous two seasons. Not only do you get flashbacks in season 3, but now you have flash forwards as well. The way that everything's set up is brilliant storytelling, even if it doesn't give you the satisfaction of a quick and easy payoff.
More new characters are added to the roster this season, most of which aren't really explained too much as they serve the purpose of fleshing out characters in flashbacks and flash forwards, or to further the story of "The Others". Of these new characters Elizabeth Mitchell (V, Gia) as Juliet is the most important. Of course, there's always the stand outs in the crowd, and Terry O' Quinn continues to shine as John Locke, but in his first full season Michael Emerson as the oily Benjamin Linus upstages everyone. As a master manipulator bending everyone to his needs, Michael Emerson is the true star of this season.
As with season 2 there is a slight problem of some characters doing things that seem to be more about moving the story along rather than being in the best interest of what the characters would or wouldn't do. While not as bad as the second season in this aspect, it can still be distracting as you move along through the series. Of course, this isn't a major problem, as the twists and turns of the plot may leave you more distracted than the character's acting against type at times, and those twists and turns keep your further invested in the story.
In my opinion, season 3 is really where Lost kicks off. The first two seasons get you into the characters, but the third season starts to answer some of the questions and pushes you into the direction of where everything is heading. Of course, by the end you'll probably be asking more questions than what you had answered, but the intrigue will leave you hungry for more.
4.5/5
A wandering we will go... February 15, 2010
Geoffrey F. Arnold (Hillsboro, Oregon USA)
I won't go deep, but simply say that if you are a true fan, this will add to the mystery, answer a few questions, create more questions and infuriate you to no end. Sometimes it will be the good kind, sometimes the disappointing kind. But overall, as I said, if you're a fan - and I am a fan - you will like more than you dislike.
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