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Lost: The Complete Fifth Season  Released on DVDLost: The Complete Fifth Season on DVD is set to be released on December 8, 2009, but you can pre-order your copy today on Amazon.com! The 5-disc DVD box set is packed with special features, including: 7 Lost on location, A Day with Josh Holloway, Los Angeles crew tribute with Michael Emerson, the 100th episode, Time Frame and Continuity, Bloopers, and Deleted Scenes. The set is available for you to pre-order at Amazon.com. Also available for pre-order is Lost: The Complete Fifth Season on Blu-ray .Partner Sites
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Episodes: Reviews
1.2 We're So Screwed, Part Two Sawyer: "I'm the criminal, you're the terrorist, we can all play a part." And we're off with part two and expedition number two, a trek up the mountain to situate the transmitter. The cast -- especially Sawyer and Sayid -- were already at each other's throats, literally and figuratively scrambling for position on increasingly shaky ground. This unsuccessful sojourn at least got us acquainted with more of the extremely large cast as well as a polar bear. I'm still finding it hard to put names and faces together and tend to think of them (the cast, not the bear) as character types. Like:
The backgammon set was this episode's winner for Most Obvious Symbolism. A five thousand year old game with two sides, white and black? Dice they used to make from bone? Locke, who has been very quiet up until now, actually creeped me out by talking to Walt, the kid, about secrets. Geez, please tell me Locke is not a pedophile. I don't want Terry O'Quinn playing a pedophile! The polar bear sequence was interesting and strange. The fact that it occurred right after Walt saw a picture of a polar bear in his Spanish language comic book made me think of the old Star Trek episode, "Shore Leave," where everything people thought of came true. A bear is a real animal, though, not a Scary Monster: except an arctic animal in the tropics is so incredibly Land That Time Forgot that it felt like science fiction again. Plus the bear wasn't anywhere near big enough to throw Greg Grunberg to the top of that tree. The other really interesting plot point was the mysterious French woman, who was supposedly stranded on the Island sixteen years ago. What happened to her? Is she still alive? Is the fact that the signal was still around sixteen years later a clear sign that our current batch of survivors will never be rescued? Our final shock was that Kate was a prisoner being transported to the states, which explained the handcuffs in the jungle. Kate showed courage, taking that gun from Sawyer. What on earth was she arrested for? Had to be serious for extradition. And what favor was she going to ask the marshal? Character bits: -- Jack again tapped Hurley to help him out. Hurley, unfortunately, is not so good around blood. -- The war paint-like wounds are fascinating. Sawyer's is a line pointing at his right eye, while Locke's actually transects his right eye vertically. Boone has a patch on his left cheek. Claire has an upside-down heart on her chin. I keep thinking that all this should mean something, but it probably doesn't. -- Claire's baby started moving again right after she ate a piece of Jin's sushi. -- Walt is ten years old. Walt's dog is named Vincent. I used to have a cat named Vincent. It is not a common name for a pet. -- Sawyer had the nerve to stand his ground and kill the polar bear. He smokes. At one point, he was sitting in a metal semi-circle piece of wreckage, reading a letter and looking upset. And he appears to be incapable of calling anyone by their proper name. -- Sayid fought in the Gulf War; he was a communications officer in the Republican Guard. He knows guns and radios, and he's good with math. -- Boone and Shannon are siblings. They were supposed to be in first class, giving us a clue as to their socio-economic status. Shannon spent a year in Paris drinking, not studying, although as far as I could tell, her translation was accurate. -- The Korean couple don't speak English. Jin is cornering the sushi market. He made Sun button up her shirt, and he slapped her hand, too. Why does Daniel Dae Kim always play jerks? -- Kate looked really good in nothing but dirty underwear. Bits and pieces: -- This time, we got the flashback of the crash from the point of view of Charlie and his drugs. We also saw him step over Shannon on his way to the bathroom. -- Expedition number two consisted of Sayid, Shannon, Boone, Kate, Charlie, and Sawyer. -- We heard iterations of the distress call starting with number 17294531. Repeated every thirty seconds made sixteen years, five months? My math certainly isn't up to that one. -- How probable is it that Sawyer could kill a polar bear with a handgun? Quotes: Shannon: "Polar bears usually don't live in jungles." Kate: "Where did that come from?" Sawyer: "Probably Bear Village. How the hell do I know?" After Walt told him his mother died two weeks ago, Locke said, "You're having a bad month." Charlie: "Guys. Where are we?" Fascinating. And definitely better when seen with part one, Billie |