Lost is one of those shows that you have to watch from the beginning. With such a huge ensemble cast, Lost is a show that is constantly adding information and clues into the mysterious world of the island, the survivors and the people known as the “others”. With its unique filming style of using flashbacks and flashforwards, Lost has a distinctive style structure of narrative to reveal details of our characters past and their impending future. It’s impossible not to get caught up into the mythology of Lost with all of its twists ands turns as we try to unravel the mysteries of this complex and cryptic show.
Season one consisted of 25 episodes that introduces us to the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 on a tropical island in the middle of the South Pacific. It doesn’t take long for the survivors to realize there’s something unusual about the island when they hear loud roars coming from the jungle the first night. Through the course of the first season our band of survivors have to face a polar bear, a mysterious smoke monster and even inhabitants on the island that they call “The Others”. The island isn’t only the place full of mystery but the survivors as well. Slowly through flashbacks, information is revealed that we have quite a collection of people with plenty to hide. From a pretty fugitive, to a con-artist, a former rock star turned drug addict and even a man whom was once paralyzed can now miraculously walk. All our survivors have skeletons they would prefer to keep to themselves as they all try to find a way off the island.
Season one set the pace and style for a show that showed they kept introducing more character and weren’t afraid to kill off a favorite character or two either. No one was safe on this Gilligan’s Island meets Lord of the Flies and that was part of the fun. Season two picked up where it left off giving us some answers and creating even more questions. This season focuses heavily on the back story of the Dharma Initiative, a communal research facility that occupied the island in the late 70’s and early 80’s. We also continue to get more information about some of our favorite character’s colorful past.
ABC has taken great care in doing the series justice and with them now on Blu-ray they have never looked better. Lost is one of those shows that are perfect on Blu-ray since the show is originally shot in wide screen hi-def and in turn is the only way to watch the series. Second, once you start it’s hard not to watch four or five episodes in a row. If you haven’t gotten the Lost bug the time is perfect to do it right and pick up the first two season on Blu-ray.
Extras
ABC has done a fantastic job with their Bonus Features for the Lost DVD’s. Although they are actually the same material on the previous standard DVD releases, one can not complain of the amount of materials and hours that are included on the Blu-ray for both seasons.
Season one with the exception of the commentary tracks on five episodes including the pilot episode, all of the bonus material is on disc seven. The material is broken up into three sections. Departure clocks in at around an hour and forty five minutes and includes featurettes entitled The Genesis of Lost, Designing A Disaster, Before They Were Lost, Welcome to Oahu: The Making of the Pilot, The Art of Matthew Fox and Lost @ Comicon. It’s all pretty self explanatory with the titles. Tales From the Island is a little over an hour of material with Lost: On Location, On Set With Jimmy Kimmel and Backstage with Drive Shaft. Lost Revealed has The Lost Flashbacks, 15 Deleted Scenes, Bloopers From the Set, Live from the Museum of Television & Radio and Flashbacks & Mythology.
Season two’s bonus material is set up in the same manner as season one with all of the bonus material minus the commentary tracks occupying the seventh disc. The Material is again broken u into three sections or “phases” as they are referred to here. Phase 1: Observation includes Fire + Water: Anatomy of an Episode, Lost: On Location and The World According to Sawyer. Phase 2: Conditioning includes The Lost Flashbacks, Deleted Scenes, Lost Bloopers and a Channel 4 UK Promo directed by famed filmmaker and photographer David LaChapelle. Phase 3: Conclusion contains Lost Connections, Mysteries, Theories and Conspiracies and Secrets From The Hatch.
There are also a bunch of hidden Easter Eggs for you to discover on both seasons as well that include behind-the-scenes footage, Jack Bender’s “in hatch” painting and other little random shorts. If that isn’t enough there is one feature available exclusive to Blu-ray called Season Play that allows you to create an individual profile that will keep track of where you left off during an episode. So when you start up a disc (regardless if you have taken it out of your player or not) the player will prompt you to load your profile. It’s a nice little feature that could come in handy in the future that one could see being an added feature in tivo units.
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