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Lost is the ultimate TV series to experience in high definition with mind blowing 1080p picture and 5.1 uncompressed sound. The multiple Emmy Award winning drama reaches new heights in its spectacular second season as the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover they are not alone in their battle against the Others and a contested decision to open the hatch reveals a new realm of mystery and intrigue.
Bonus Feature Include: audio commentaries, Fire & Water: Anatomy of an episode, Lost on location, the world according to Sawyer, canine castaway, flashbacks, deleted scenes, bloopers, mysteries, theories, and conspiracies, secrets from the hatch
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By E. A Solinas (MD USA)
It was bound to happen -- after a breathtaking first season, expectations were high for the continuation of "Lost," a creepy, semi-mystical series with a checkered cast and an exotic island setting.
"Lost's" second season builds on the story of the first season, picking up where it left off. Though it has some flaws -- a bit of bad casting and some lag in the "island" stories -- it's still intriguing and eerie, and solves old mysteries as it introduces new ones, with shocking twists on characters you thought you knew.
As the season opens, Locke, Kate and Jack finally enter the mysterious hatch. But they didn't count on finding a concrete bunker, a button that might postpone doomsday -- and a frantic man who is very familiar to Jack. Meanwhile, Michael, Sawyer and Jin manage to make it back to the island -- and are promptly captured by a band of strangers.
These people turn out to be castaways from the fallen plane's tail section, led by the suspicious Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodrieguez). They make the trek to the opposite side of the island, but as they arrive, Ana makes a fatal mistake -- she shoots Shannon. Nice way to start integrating the groups.
As the season goes on, new personal crises arise when Locke loses faith in the island, Michael goes off to find Walt, Hurley falls in love with one of the tailies, Claire explores what happened to her during her "missing month," and Sawyer scores an unexpected coup which gets him all the guns in the camp.
As the season goes on, things start to heat up. The mysterious French woman gives an "Other" she trapped over to Sayid, but is he really an enemy, or just an innocent castaway? And as Locke and Eko discover the true purpose of the hatches, one of the lost returns to the camp -- and treachery is guiding the castaways into a trap...
"Lost"'s second seasons started out strong and thrilling, then hit a dead spot for a few episodes, before picking back up again. While the middling episodes are solid enough, the best parts are at the start and finish, where the writers throw several shocking twists into the storyline.
The mystery of the island itself is not solved -- the presence of the mysterious Dharma Corporation is revealed. But the corporation doesn't explain how the island has healing powers. Some answers are revealed, and some mysteries simply get more complex. On the character backstory front, the castaways' problems still haunt them, from imaginary friends to torture to drugs.
The returning cast continues the compelling job they did in the first season, especially Dominic Monaghan, Evangeline Lilly, Daniel Dae Kim, Naveen Andrews, and Jorge Garcia, who all get their pasts raked up again; the actors do a magnificent job with guilt, sorrow, longing, and love. In fact, all of them do a good job, including ex-star Maggie Grace, who manages to make us actually LIKE Shannon in her final episode.
As for the "tailies," there are good and bad choices. Michelle Rodrieguez was an appalling choice, since her butch ex-cop is the same character she's been doing for years. But on the flip side is Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who quickly won fans' hearts as the spiritual Mr. Eko, a mysterious and dangerous priest/drugrunner. Think a Christian counterpart to Locke's animist believer.
The extras are a fairly good bunch -- the video and sound are beautifully spruced up, and it has deleted scenes, a bunch of featurettes (on everything from the awesome Sawyer to the strange theories that the show provokes), Easter eggs, audio commentary with writers, directors and actors, cut flashbacks sneak peeks, bloopers, and so on and so forth.
"Lost" stumbled a bit in the middle of the second season, but regained its footing for shocking, explosive episodes leading up to the finale. If only all second seasons were as good as this.
By John A. Zapetis (Tampa, FL USA)
I have watched all the seasons of LOST. When season 2 was broadcast in wasn't in HD. So I was so excited when I found out it would be released in this format. This Blu-Ray version is even better than when it was on TV. Crisp images are superb! And no commercials, so you can immense yourself deep into the labyrinth of LOST's stories. Season play is great on my PS3. I wasn't sure how it worked at first, but now I can't watch without it. You can resume within episodes! Bravo!
By Alexander M. Walker (Chicago, IL USA)
Before we begin, if you've yet to watch the first season of LOST, just stop reading now. Reading this review won't give you an edge when you finally go to watch the first season, it'll just ruin some of the great moments. Do yourself a favor and go read the review for the first season or, if you already have, go watch the first season and then come back. With that said, you've been warned, because there be slight first season spoilers ahead.
As the first season came to a close, Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Hurley (Jorge Garcia) blew open the hatch with dynamite - leaving a gaping hole left to be explored. Meanwhile, the crew of the makeshift sailboat reel after the encounter with the mysterious boat whose occupants abducted Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), the son of Michael (Harold Perrineau). Reaching shore, Michael and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) reunite with Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) only to be taken prisoner by the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815's tail section - whom they'd assumed had died in the crash. With a new settlement of survivors established, the seasons begins tying their stories back together with the introduction of new characters like Ana-Lucia Cortez (Michelle Rodriguez) whose personality puts her at odds with the established routines of the crowd we came to know in the first season.
The discovery of the hatch adds a new wrinkle to LOST's story as Jack and Locke discovers the station's original intent and Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick), a man who lived in solitude within the hatch, reveals the computer which requires a string of numbers to be entered at regular intervals lest disaster strike. The revelation of a safety mechanism keeping the island in order leads to the idealistic difference between Jack and Locke escalating and a rift in their friendship begins to grow. Another primary story in the second season is the addition of Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) whose true past and that what he reveals to the others differ wildly; yet he provides a steady hand to guide the increasing unstable Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) as his troubles with heroin and Claire (Emilie de Ravin) come to a head. Mr. Eko's story easily receives the greatest attention of the new characters and his character follows a very interesting path.
The second season builds to strong climax, though not the strongest of the series, as the survivors capture a man named "Henry Gale" (Michael Emerson) who they believe to be a member of "the Others". Their efforts to pry answers from the man create steep divides in the camp as Sayid (Naveen Andrews) toys with the idea of returning to his barbaric means of torture he learned as a soldier in Iraq. Henry Gale makes promises and decisions are made which will affect the lives of everyone on the island.
A great many elements from the lives of the survivors are revealed in the second season. While LOST typically teases the audience with minor revelations, every once in a while major breakthroughs are made casting characters in a light which sheds new meaning on past actions and alters your theories about what they'll do in the near future. LOST has no qualms against messing with the audience; it manages to keep things consistent, but unlike the recent twists of M. Night Shyamalan, each and every answer to be found in the second season feels fully realized. Without its characters LOST would be nothing but a story about a bunch of people in a mysterious land; but by making the people as enigmatic as the setting, LOST grabs interest and never lets go.
Just like the first season, the second season is a testament to high-definition television. Thanks to the lush backdrop of Oahu, LOST's set has a life no set could equal. The colors pop out of the screen and the sweeping panoramic shots of the island are phenomenal. The surround sound will blow your mind as it takes full advantage of the crazy events of the show and the life bristling from every branch in the wilderness around them.
Blu-ray Extra Features:
LOST: The Complete Second Season features many of the formatting pros and cons from the first season like a less-than-perfect menu setup overshadowed by the "SeasonPlay" feature which gives you the chance to watch the season with minimal distraction.
The minor extra features include additional flashbacks (and again I'd recommend you not watch them until you're entirely caught up to the current season), deleted scenes, a gag reel and some fantastic audio commentaries. Filming on location in Oahu makes for plenty of interesting stories from the cast and crew which are relayed through the commentaries - so give `em a listen. There's a feature similar to the additional flashback feature which lets you explore the connections of the characters before they arrived on the island. It's a bittersweet featurette as it strips the viewer from having to remember and make the connections on their own; again this might be considered a better tool for the up-to-date LOST viewer looking for a quick refresher on the LOST mythos than for the newly-initiated.
Finally we have a "behind the scenes" featurette on the set of LOST and (like with the commentaries) there's some material here that's really interesting. Another production featurette "Fire + Water" takes a step by step look at the recording of the titular episode - fun to watch, though at times a bit bland, but hey, if you've never worked on a film set, boredom is actually part of the process.
The most interesting and worthwhile featurette on the set is "Mysteries, Theories and Conspiracies" which traces some of the symbolic connections feature unobtrusively throughout the two seasons thus far. It's hard to recommend this one without giving you a specific point at which to watch it. Part of me says to watch it before starting the second season as it will make you more aware of the small things and help you keep track of the story. Another part of me says that, like with the other "connection"-based featurette, it might be best used as a review tool for the seasoned LOST viewer. To be safe, don't watch it until you're done, but after doing so you might consider going back to the specified episodes and having a look at the symbols in context.
By Mark bennett (portland, OR)
This is what you expect it to be. A blu-ray release of a TV show from several years ago. The video looks better than standard DVD, but its better within the limitations of the camera equipment that was used at the time.
The sound is great though. Thats really where any Blu-Ray really shines no matter what the source material.
There are extras over the DVD release. They included a bunch of promotional features that were only available on extra DVDs relaesed through retailers and media companies.
The Blu-Ray exclusive Extras are: Lost On Location "The Other 48 Days", Lost on Location "What Kate Did". There are are also five deleted scenes previously not available in the DVD: Good With Kids, Scissors, Kate's Choice, The Saw and Giving Care.
On the downside, there is no booklet or physical extras with the Discs. They don't even provide an episode list with titles in the packaging which is really annoying given the amount of content on the Discs. They also waste lots of physical space on the media to pad things out to seven discs.
Its virtue is that its cheap. There is a mail-in form included with the package for $20 back if you own the DVD version of season one or season two. After gouging people on season four, the rebates are very much appreciated.
By eternal now (mankato)
Every leaf, every blade of grass, every grain of sand, every bead of sweat; watching Lost in 1080p high definition is an illuminating experience to say the least, and the ultimate way to watch one of the greatest television series ever created. From the lush jungle backdrops to the gritty Dharma stations, everything is presented in stunning definition, the kind that only Disney can bring to Blu-Ray.
Season 2 ups the ante for Lost, introducing new characters, villains, Dharma stations, island mysteries, and the infamous numbers. The plot thickens, the character studies get more intense, and the questions pile up as our beloved losties seek to unravel the mysterious of the island they crashed on in season 1. Without giving away too much, Season 2 introduces us to the tail section survivors, more Others goodness, and the strange ways of the Dharma Initiative, including the Dharma stations; and who can forget Marvin Candle?!
The picture quality is near pefect, with nary a qualm from my point of view. Colors pop on screen, detail is highly abundant from facial features to clothing textures to gritty surfaces and outdoor scenery; videophiles will not be disappointed. Though, as great as the picture quality is it doesn't match the quality of Season 3 or Season 4, but its still leagues better than the DVD and its television broadcast,and certainly up there with the best looking high definition releases to date. The audio is nothing to scoff at either, being presented in 5.1 uncompressed magnificance.
The only real disappointment to this otherwise spectacular package is the supplements, which are exactly the same as the DVD counterpart, and all in standard definition; otherwise Lost Season 2: The Extended Experience is a must own for lost fanatics and videophiles alike.
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