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lost the complete first season
Lost - The Complete First Season
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List Price: $59.99
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936278040
Format: AC-3
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 7
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-09-06
Running Time: 1068
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2004-09-22
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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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Summary: LOST: The enduring lure of Judeo-Christian tropes
Comment: Lost - The Complete First Season
After my keen disappointment with the first season of the misanthropic "24" a while back, I promised myself I'd never waste my time on series television again without a helluva reco from a friend who knew my proclivities, and preferably after the series had had enough time to reveal its underlying themes. Well, we got such a reco recently for LOST, now in its fourth or fifth season, I understand, so the Clan and I sat ourselves down and started watching season one.
And watching, and watching...
Okay, I confess: we're two eps short of the end of season one, the second season is lined up in my Netflix queue, and I'm good and hooked.
This, for two main reasons: first, the show breathes a frefreshingly benevolent air--the creators clearly like these characters, and wish the best for them; second, the creators have slso astonishingly remembered that not only are many members of the tribe Homo Sapiens inherently spiritual in outlook, some of us are actually and overtly religious. I mean, this is a show where characters, sans irony, pray, go to confession and look for the meaning of life (or at least The Island); where everyone has a shot at mercy, redemption and a second chance; where a rosary may drop from the leafy treetops at any moment.
Indeed, the scripts are so thick with a mixture of Jungian archetypes and Judeo-Christian tropes that I'm wondering if the answer to all the mysteries of the show aren't somehow answered by the Catholic notion of Purgatory, or at least its more generic cousin, the concept that every person faces a life-reviewing personal Last Judgment at the time of death--I've even gone so far as to wonder if the show's creators weren't suggesting that the characters all actually died in that plane crash, and what we're seeing is a sort of "Limbo of the Lost".
Be that as it may--I'm still very early in the show--there's no question in my mind that a large portion of LOST's popularity and "cult" status is derived, not in spite of the series' overt spirituality, but because of it. Even among skeptics, the old religious tropes are powerful--indeed, they undergird the structure of western art.
For more on this subject, Mark Lawson of the Guardian U.K. has written a perceptive little article on "why artists can't resist the lure of Christianity". Here's just one paragraph:
"Christianity, as well as being a safer subject [than Islam], is also a rich one. The faith has become a cultural battleground because of a gulf between the astonishing boldness of the religion's central stories, and the pinched timidity of many of the people who have practised it. Its narrative elements - the fallen angel Lucifer becoming Satan, the birth to a virgin of the son of God, becoming man and dying on the cross - are, regardless of whether or not you believe them, intensely dramatic."
Which is why, I dare say, as someone once pointed out, one never hears of "the great Buddhist novel".
Anyhow, for the rest of Lawson's article, go here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/26/art-television
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely the Best!
Comment: Just had to say this is the best series I have ever seen. Awaiting Season 4 on disk.
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Summary: Addictive Show
Comment: I was hooked on Lost from the first episode. The teaser commercials caught my attention and from the crash onwards the show became gripping and compelling.
To say the show has some twists, turns and suprises would be an understatement and just when you think tyou have an understanding of what is happening, another wrinkle is thrown in.
The use of cut-backs (and sometimes cut-forwards later on in the series) are extremely well done and help to add somee depth to each charactor on the show and why they do what they do.
The bonus features are a must and it is nice to have a widescreen version since I originally had not seen it in that format. Lost is also one of those shows that you really need to start at the beginning. Though there are recaps and you can pick up on what is going on, it is alot better to start with the first episode and work your way forward.
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Summary: Lost Season 1
Comment: this DVD set was in excellent condition: only a very few minor scratches on a few disks; a great buy!
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Summary: A must see TV show!!!
Comment: 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 Walkabout.
One of the things LOST introduced me to was the Twilight Zone which J.J. Abrams was inspired. Besides this box set of season 1 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.
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