Lost - The Complete First Season | Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly

Lost - The Complete First Season | Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly | Absolutely the best show ever!

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highly recommended

From J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, comes the action-packed adventure that became a worldwide television event. Stranded on an island that holds many secrets, 48 people must band together if they hope to get home alive. Now you can experience the nonstop excitement and mystery of every episode, from the show's stunning first minute to its spectacular finale, on a seven-disc set. Presented in a widescreen theatrical format with 5.1 Surround Sound and bursting with more than eight hours of original bonus features -- including unaired Lost flashbacks from the final episode -- Lost is a real find.

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LOST!

I love LOST! I gave it as a gift and it was in great condition!

Absolutely the best show ever!

I can't believe I never watched this when it was on t.v. but I was under the impression it was a reality show which I detest. When I read the write up about it by accident, I decided to watch it. It is astonishing. Usually I can't sit still for one little movie, but I am sitting through this watching nearly an entire season in two days. That is 24 episodes! When I think I really should get back to work or do something besides sitting in front of the t.v., I watch another episode which leaves a cliffhanger and I have to watch it.

There's a lot of mystery and usually 2 or 3 plots are going at the same time. The actors may have been rather unknown before this show but I bet they are known now. I know I have looked every one of them up. There's also a lot of supernatural events which keep you enthralled. And the question of whether this group ended up together due to fate or coincidence is always there.

You have to watch the show carefully because when they show flashbacks from these people's lives, you will see someone else from the island in nearly every one of them. They may have just been a casual passerby in the background but usually someone is always in someone else's flashback, even though the one having the flashback never really notices them. It's odd and makes you start wondering why. Also the flashbacks lets them bring in guest stars that they wouldn't be able to do if they just did island scenes. You'll see some surprising guest stars...like Peg from Married with Children to name just one.

It appears most of these people were "bad" people with little redeeming features, some were murderers or killed someone by accident, or some other misfit of society. But they are now saving other's lives and appear entirely human. You start wondering if they are part of some experiment, why some of the ones who appear to be "good" get killed off of if they are all just dreaming. The show keeps coming up with a plot that leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat.

I am so glad now that I didn't watch these on t.v. from the beginning because I would never have been able to wait week by week to see what happened next. It's all I can do to continue through the seasons I have on disc now and not watch the new and last season of this show on t.v.

If you can't afford to buy the series then rent it or watch it online thru amazon video on demand or one of the other places. It's worth your time if you love mysteries, science fiction, romance, suspense. It is filmed in Hawaii and the views are spectacular (although they can be scary when black smoke is chasing one of the inhabitants around or uprooting trees left and right).

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Far And Away One Of The All-Time Best Television Series

Ranking up there with great movies, Lost has redefined the scope and quality of what you can do with a live-action television series and is easily one of the best tv smashes of all time. The viewing experience is enhanced greatly through the boxed sets as opposed to watching an hour a week on the regular broadcasts - widescreen high-definition shows uninterrupted by commercials, with the ability to watch several episodes in a night, and, if you wish, an entire season in a relatively short span. And at a price like this (listed at just $16.99 as I'm writing this), this is just too good a value to pass up for anyone who doesn't own the sets yet. Note: the 'rewatch' quality of Lost is a lot higher than with a lot of other cases, as seeing earlier episodes with the hindsight of knowing how those early events tie into later developments, just makes for a great experience. If you haven't started the Lost series, or have only seen sporadic episodes, it's much better to start off from the beginning and see everything in order than just jumping right into where the tv show is at now. That would be kind of like starting an epic novel at page 700 and trying to figure out what's going on.

The basic premise of Lost is well-known by now and simple: a commercial airliner crashlands on an uncharted tropical island and the survivors have to try and carry on, keep themselves alive until rescue comes or try to find a way off the island themselves. How the story actually unfolds, of course, is anything but simple. The first, double-length episode is a perfect example. For almost its whole running time, it focuses as if it were, in fact, just that simple: the survivors, confused, afraid, and sometimes injured, try to survive in the immediate wake of the crash, with chaos reigning and the plane wreckage still aflame. People have to come together very quickly. It's only after things have settled down, that night, at the very end of the pilot episode, that the first real sign comes to the survivors and the viewers that things aren't as cut and dried as they might seem, with the classic view of what happens off in the jungle (which I'm not going to spoil here for anybody who hasn't seen it).

Also in the first episode, the flashbacks begin to the lives of the various passengers before they boarded the plane. The continuing flashback usage was seen by some as annoying, and even I initially thought they might be over-using it just a bit, but you realize later on how vital everything is and how it all ties together. In fact, it may be less accurate to view Lost as a story being told, with the help of a lot of flashbacks; than to view it as a story that's being told in more than one time frame simultaneously. I'd seen this technique used in comic books and some movies (it's since become more prevalent in movies than it was) but I don't know if any ongoing tv series had ever tried to do this before Lost.

Few of the passengers know each other before the crash, and the initial episodes focus a lot on the early day-to-day survival, the early forming of friendships, sometimes the seeds of relationships, and in some cases rivalries and enmities. Some of the characters come into this with volatile personalities (yes, that includes Sawyer), others (like Jack and Hurley) ty in different ways to act as the glue that will hold the fledging group together, some (like Kate and Sayid) have secret pasts that will figure into things after a while, and some, most notably John Locke, quickly come up with their own, sometimes way off-the-beaten-path, ideas of what the group's priorities and long-term goals should be.

Clues begin coming that make it more evident that things aren't as simple as a plane accidentally coming down on an uncharted island. For starters, it quickly becomes apparant that the island is awfully Large for something that's supposedly not on any map. Things happen that would seem to indicate that the survivors aren't the only ones on the island, and other things seem strangely out of place, even unnatural. The first seeds of the idea that it isn't coincidence that this particular group of strangers has come to be on this island at this time, are planted, as Locke comes up with a lot of ideas concerning fate. And the season continues on to a spectacular cliffhanger season finale, which will become the standard with the show. Lost looks and feels like an extra-long big budget movie, but one of the well-written, well-executed big budget movies, not a movie with high budget but low in other factors. One of the most skillful things about the overall series is how some seemingly minor incident will happen, and only much later (sometimes several seasons later) be revealed as tying into other events in a big way.

Lost got me to re-asses television shows as a whole. I don't watch a lot of tv programming as opposed to the number of DVDs I watch, but Lost opened me up to the idea that there might be some good stuff on there I was missing. I like the boxed sets of series better than seeing the regular broadcasts with their commercials and with there often being several weeks between episodes. Renting disc one of a series and then buying the box set if disc one was good enough seems like a good way to go about it. But even as I've become more familiar with some of what's been on tv, and enjoy some of it a lot, there are still relatively few programs past or present that can come close to Lost. This is up there among my favorite movies, or favorite stories from any other medium (comics, novels, etc.). Very highly reccommended.

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The best TV Show ever!

My husband and I just started watching this show and we are hooked. Its scary, thrilling, adventurous, mysterious, intriguing. I highly suggest watching this on a large tv screen. We have the dvd's on Blu-ray and a theater screen with surround sound and that is the only way to go with this show!!

Guys, Where Are We?

On the day of the 6th season premiere, I finally decided to watch Lost to cement the fact that I will forever be six years behind or ahead of pop culture. I would have watched sooner, but by the time I wanted to jump on the bandwagon, a lot of my friends jumped off, "It was great for a while, then it just got weird" they'd say. But now, with the final season upon us, and with my hearing that answers will be/have been given, I jumped on the fated Lost plane. Thus, this review will be in the context of a first-time viewer starting from the beginning, so forgive me if these facts are later changed, resolved, or otherwise not true in later seasons.

Highlight Episodes:
Pilot
Walkabout
All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
Hearts & Minds
Deus Ex Machina

From the opening moments of death-dog, Vincent waking up our fateful hero, then finding out that a plane has crashed on an island, and the ensuing chaos that follows, Lost comes up with one of the best pilots in TV history. It's absolutely mesmerizing for anybody that watches it. How could you not become a fan after watching this? The beach scene not only has some great special effects, but the tension and feeling of terror on the beach is just so well-done. In fact, this scene is so iconic, every show like it that has come afterwards has tried to come up with their own version of this scene. Guess what, they all fail. What may seem like a simple scene, is actually an encapsulation of all that makes Lost a great show, at least in the first season.

Another aspect of Lost that the show does so well, is that while it's most known for its story, it's characters hold the show together, and it's mostly what makes the characters so good. It's so hard to get to know so many people since it's an ensemble cast, but by the end of the season, you get a good sense of most/all of the characters, their motivations, and what brought them to the island.

Jack is the reluctant leader who was told all of his life that he didn't have what it takes to be a hero (He's also the first of many characters we learn that has MAJOR daddy issues). Sawyer is the local conman, unlikable maybe, but he gives clever nicknames, so he can't be all bad. Locke is the local philosopher, always the wiser, he struggles with issues of faith. Sayid is the local Iraqi torturer. Hurley is the comical fat guy with a heart of gold and a harsh unlucky streak. Jin & Sun are the local Koreans that are surrounded by emotional and linguistic barriers. Charlie is the local drug-addicted former rockstar that finds a new addiction in the pregnant/sweet/cute Claire. Boone & Shannon are the high-class step-brother & sister that slept together. Michael & Walt are a father & son that struggle to build their relationship. And even though Kate is often criticized for being the worst character/actress, she's a tragic type who's built by circumstances, and only suffers because she's the least likable out of the whole cast.

To build out and flesh out that big of a cast in only 25 episodes is an amazing accomplishment to me, especially since a lot of it comes in the form of well-placed flashbacks. And again, in this season at least, Lost puts its characters above its story. Sure, it may string you along with a few mysteries, Lost Season 1 was all about the characters. This is where Lost succeeds, and for me at least, makes it such a compelling watch.

Overall, it's a must that you at least try the show out at least thought the pilot, and probably through episode 4 or 5. If you're not satisfied by this point, then you'll probably never be satisfied, and if you continue and make it through the whole season and you still don't like it, then just drop it. This is the best that Lost has offered so far, and to me, it's a TV gem.

Also, if you've already seen this season, after you've seen the whole show, I hear it's equally comelling and facinating the 2nd time around. Which is always great when a show stands up to, and even benefits from repeat viewings.

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