Others say...

"Received promptly"
I received this within a reasonable amount of time. I have yet to view it but on inspection it looks to be in top shape.

"This show keeps getting better and better."
I love this show, its the best on TV. This show hooks you from the begininng and pulls you in you want to know what happens next. I ended up watching this entire season in two days. A must for all you sci-fi buffs. My favorite episode in this season is "I Do".

One of the things LOST introduced me to was the Twilight Zone which J.J. Abrams was inspired. Besides this box set of season 3 of lost, I recommend a book also on Amazon.com. THE TWILIGHT ZONE: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams. Together, they both open the skies for cult television.

Your just gonna have to purchase all seasons, I don't want to give anything alway and the show.


"Lost Season 3 Seriously off its A-Game"

SPOILER ALERT. I seem to be one of few people who thought that Lost Season 2 was the strongest yet. Season 2 is everything that Season 3 isn't: Carefully plotted, secrets revealed at the right times and with the right amount of impact, storyline well paced, and a sense of confidence in where the story was headed. By the end of Season 2, I was intrigued.

That all ended in the first minutes of Season 3, where we discover instantly that the Island isn't really removed from the rest of civilization the way we thought, and all the mystery and menace of "the Others" simply evaporates. By Episode 3 I found myself simply not caring about any of the characters or their schizophrenic decision-making. This persisted throughout the remainder of the season with the exception of a tense standoff over Ben's spinal surgery. In general, major events become laughable, the dialogue devolves into something bordering cheap and hoaky, tense situations are poorly constructed, and characters begin making decisions not because they make sense, but because they conveniently advance the plot.

An excessive amount of time is dedicated to flashbacks, many of them utterly pointless. The insertion of the back-story on Nikki and Paulo is particularly irrelevant. If I wanted to watch a show about a B-Movie actress, a con heist gone awry, or a love affair on the Sydney riviera, I wouldn't turn to Lost for my fix. Intense stand-offs between key characters in pivotal moments are sloppy and often make no sense considering the circumstances. The key players stop behaving in ways we would expect them to based on our previous understanding of their characters, and it isn't intentional. The use of coincidence gets more extreme than ever, to the point of inducing eye-rolling rather than surprise or fascination.

A sense that there's a good explanation for all the coincidence rapidly diminishes as Season 3 progresses. More and more characters seem to be becoming omniscient, somehow knowing things that nobody in their right mind could ever hope to piece together, and not just because the island or some unseen force told them. Speaking of mysticism, the writers have become utterly reliant on superstition - and what appears to be telepathy - in order to get characters to learn and communicate efficiently with one another. There's a flashback of Desmond's where even one of the ancillary characters not familiar with the Island seems to know all its secrets and everything about everyone.

Hurley gets inordinate screen time, which would be fine if his character weren't such a crashing bore. Most of the new female characters have had so much cosmetic surgery that they don't fit in with the rugged environment of the Island. Juliet is simply hard to look at, her face deconstructed and pieced back together with silicone, collagen and sculpted bone fragments, and ditto for Desmond's wife. It's all well and fine for soap operas; wrong for a show like Lost. Charley's death came at a disappointment particularly since none of the new characters are interesting enough to replace him. Most of the new additions are dry, bland, cookie-cutter types that you might expect to see on a show like 7th Heaven or a filler courtroom drama.

There is almost no real "Island time" to speak of. Most of the events take place in the built-up parts of the Island, complete with swingsets, electricity, pianos, flower pattern curtains and hospital beds. Scenes with the original survivors of flight 815 at their original beach camp seem out of place given that you apparently can't walk very far in any direction without stumbling upon a house, farm, quay or bunker. The sense of adventure is completely drained from the show by the time Season 3 concludes.

Now that I think about it, Season 3 was so bad I might not even watch Season 4. And considering what a promising start the first two seasons were, that's quite a feat. The promise of "Lost" is escapism, but Season 3 brings us right back to the real world of dry primetime television.



"Family event"
We spent christmas eve and christmas day watching Lost 1 2 3 as a family. This series is GOOD!

"How Much Can the Plot Thicken"
"Lost" is the most shameless cliff-hanger series I've ever seen, which is part of the reason I love it! The DVD package is wonderful, with lots of commentary tracks, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and plenty of Easter eggs. I was not disappointed.