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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
5.1 Because You Left Sawyer: "First things first. Give me your shirt." Did absence make the heart grow fonder, or was this episode a hoot and a half? I was bouncing around and laughing, I was so delighted. It was like a gift to the fans tied up with a great big bow. (Yes, new viewers would have been totally Lost, but tough. Go rent the first four seasons, new viewers.) Every season has opened by introducing a new faction and new characters. Not this time. And interestingly enough, there were none of the standard character flashbacks or flashforwards. Just lots and lots of stuff about the characters we love and the situations that have merrily confused us for the past four years. In fact, there was so much juicy goodness that I almost don't know where to begin. No, wait. I do. Yes, we have time travel Even though it was established last season, this episode confirmed that There Really Is Time (and Space) Travel Going On. Good thing we had a time traveling physicist around to explain it to the cast, huh? Faraday's explanation about time as a stream that can be traveled in both directions but can't be changed explained (for me, anyway) why Michael couldn't kill himself. It wasn't a mystical Island consciousness that stopped him; it was the time stream asserting itself. It might explain the Walking Dead, too. Are the dead that are walking around not supposed to be dead, perhaps? The jumping around in time also mimicked the structure of the entire series. Flashbacks and flashforwards have always been given to us out of order, haven't they? The Island, and miscellaneous delightful details I just laughed through the entire opening flashback to New Otherton and the outtake from the Dharma orientation film. Apparently, the guy we've seen so many times with so many names (as well as now and then with a false arm) is really called Dr. Chang. Faraday was there working as a grunt during the discovery of the Time Machine Anomaly Wheel Thingy. I guess his pink hairdryer time machine really does work. Unless he's just skipping around even more than everyone else does. No, it seemed deliberate and undercover. Loved the different states of the Hatch. And paranoid Desmond in his yellow hazard suit and gas mask. And the Nigerian plane crashing. And Locke climbing up to it again, and falling down just like Boone, and getting shot *again*. And Ethan showing up with a rifle. Yes, it was confusing and all over the place, but it was also great fun. Sawyer and Juliet seem to have developed a connection. That's probably because he's the new Jack now. Or maybe she was subconsciously affected by the fact that he wasn't wearing a shirt for the entire episode. I wonder if that was the producers' way of apologizing to Sawyer fans for keeping him so filthy and in a cage for half of season three? Charlotte now has the fatal time travel nosebleed. Ben was right up close to the Time Machine Anomaly Wheel Thingy last season, and it didn't kill him. Because he's "special", right? Possibly for the same reason that Richard doesn't jump around in time? The Oceanic Six and Desmond Sayid, my favorite assassin, was channeling James Bond. (Knives in the dishwasher. Ick. At least the points weren't sticking up out of the guy's chest.) And Sun has become an international woman of intrigue. What is she up to with Widmore? I don't believe she just wants to kill Ben. Is Sun becoming a bad guy, too? The key fact seems to be that Richard told Locke he had to die in order to convince the Oceanic Six to return to the Island. (That's probably why I kept expecting Locke in the coffin to open his eyes.) Coming back to life would certainly be convincing, wouldn't it? What about Walt? Does he not count because the Island let him go? If the dead are important, what about Michael and Jin? Faraday said that the Rules don't apply to Desmond. He's uniquely and miraculously special. Does that mean he alone can change the time "stream"? I'm glad that his reunion with Penny wasn't the end of the journey for his character. I'd hate it if they'd written him out. Character bits: -- Yay! Jack's terrible, horrible beard finally went away. May it never return in flashback. -- Richard gave Locke an old compass, which I seem to remember from the "test" Richard gave Locke as a child. So I guess little John should have chosen the compass instead of the knife? -- Dr. Chang and his wife had a baby. I thought women on the Island couldn't have babies? Maybe they had just arrived. Or maybe the Island wasn't killing pregnant women back in the seventies. -- What the hell is Richard? It's one of the most intriguing unanswered questions. -- Faraday made it, even though he was in a boat with extras instead of cast members. I'm not the biggest fan of the Daniel Faraday character, but I had a feeling he'd be back this season. -- When that guy showed up with a court order, Kate was ready to run. She and Aaron were out the door in five minutes. Not a surprise. -- Sun was born on March 20, 1980. The passport was issued May 31, 2001, which makes sense. -- Desmond was with Penny for three years. Were they on the boat all this time? -- Sawyer called Charlotte "Ginger" (come on, that one had to happen) and Faraday "Whiz Kid," "Danny Boy," and... was it "Dilbert"? And for some reason, Kate called Aaron "Goober." Goober? Bits and pieces: -- Emilie de Ravin and Harold Perrineau are out of the cast. And Daniel Dae Kim is still in the cast, even while officially being blown up. Intriguing. -- The first thing we saw was an alarm clock that said "8:15 a.m." Season two and three also started with a new character putting on music. This time, the music skipped. Just like the Island. -- Dr. Chang mentioned station two, the Arrow, and defensive strategies against the "indigenous hostiles". That was the station the Tailies were in back in season two. -- Miles said that it had taken Widmore twenty years to find the Island the first time. That sounds familiar so we may have heard it before, but anyway. -- Ben and Jack were sharing a motel room. That made me smile, too. They were watching Action 8 news. We don't have a channel 8 here in Los Angeles, but it's one of Hurley's numbers. Quotes: Explosives guy: "Okay, so what? We're going to go back and kill Hitler?" Sawyer: "So when are we now, whiz kid?" Faraday: "We're either in the past, or we're in the future." Well, duh. What other options are there, other than the present? Hurley: "Want a fry?" Sayid: "No, thank you." Hurley: "You know, maybe if you'd eat more comfort food, you wouldn't have to go around shooting people." Locke: "What is it?" Richard: "It's a compass." Locke: "What does it do?" Richard: "It points north, John." Sawyer: "Open up! It's the ghost of Christmas future!" I absolutely loved this episode, so four out of four polar bears. I reviewed "The Lie" separately, so check out "next episode", Billie Doux |