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We previously brought you some of our favorite episodes and now OBS gives you the first part of our Lost seasons reviews. Enjoy.
Brought to you by OBS Staff member Katlyn.
Season 1 Review, by Katlyn
Synopsis: The initial season had fourteen major roles getting star billing, making it American television's largest cast at the time of the series' debut. Naveen Andrews portrayed former Iraqi Republican Guard Sayid Jarrah. Emilie de Ravin played the pregnant Australian Claire Littleton. Until later in the season, de Ravin is only credited in the episodes that she appears in. Matthew Fox acted as the troubled surgeon, leader of the group and protagonist Jack Shephard. Jorge Garcia portrayed Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, an unlucky lottery winner. Maggie Grace played Shannon Rutherford, a former dance teacher. Josh Holloway acted as con man James "Sawyer" Ford. Yunjin Kim played Sun-Hwa Kwon, the daughter of a powerful Korean businessman and mobster, with Daniel Dae Kim as her husband Jin-Soo Kwon. Evangeline Lilly portrayed fugitive Kate Austen. Dominic Monaghan acted as an ex-rock star drug addict Charlie Pace. Harold Perrineau portrayed construction worker Michael Dawson, while child actor Malcolm David Kelley acted as his young son, Walt Lloyd. Ian Somerhalder played Boone Carlyle, chief operating officer of his mother's wedding business and step brother of Shannon. Terry O'Quinn played the mysterious John Locke.
Review: Every time I hear that someone doesn't watch Lost because they don't "get" it, I ALWAYS say, 'You have to start from the beginning!'. I was not a fan of the show because first I started halfway through the second season and I was totally lost, no pun intended. But when I heard how so many people loved the show I decided to give it a shot and started from the beginning, and now I am hooked! There are many small details about each person on the island that are only noticed as the seasons progress, and details about the island itself are revealed very slowly throughout.
The highlights of this season are the characters. Each episode revolves around a character from the crash. Characters pasts and their relationships to each other are revealed in each episode. The best part of these revelations is that people are not always who they seem to be, and it is great fun seeing who these people were before their life was completely altered.
Season 2 Review, by Katlyn
Synopsis: What was in the Hatch? The cliffhanger from season one of Lost was answered in its opening sequences, only to launch into more questions as the season progressed. That's right: Just when you say "Ohhhhh," there comes another "What?" Thankfully, the show's producers sprinkle answers like tasty morsels throughout the season, ending with a whopper: What caused Oceanic Air Flight 815 to crash in the first place? As the show digs into more revelations about its inhabitant's pasts, it also devotes a good chunk to new characters (Hey, it's an island; you never know who you're going to run into.) First, there are the "Tailies," passengers from the back end of the plane who crashed on the other side of the island. Among them are the wise, God-fearing ex-drug lord Mr. Eko (standout Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje); devoted husband Bernard (Sam Anderson); psychiatrist Libby (Cynthia Watros, whose character has more than one hidden link to the other islanders); and ex-cop Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez), by far the most infuriating character on the show, despite how much the writers tried to incur sympathy with her flashback. Then there are the Others, first introduced when they kidnapped Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) at the end of season one. Brutal and calculating, their agenda only became more complex when one of them (played creepily by Michael Emerson) was held hostage in the hatch and, quite handily, plays mind games on everyone's already frayed nerves. The original cast continues to battle their own skeletons, most notably Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Sun (Yunjin Kim) and Michael (Harold Perrineau), whose obsession with finding Walt takes a dangerous turn. The love triangle between Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway), which had stalled with Sawyer's departure, heats up again in the second half. Despite the bloating cast size (knocked down by a few by season's end) Lost still does what it does best: explores the psyche of people, about whom "my life is an open book" never applies, and cracks into the social dynamics of strangers thrust into Lord of the Flies-esque situations. Is it all a science experiment? A dream? A supernatural pocket in the universe? Likely, any theory will wind up on shaky ground by the season's conclusion. But hey, that's the fun of it. This show was made for DVD, and you can pause and slow-frame to your heart's content. Just try and keep that head-spinning to a minimum.
Review: Season Two of 'Lost' introduced many new questions to avid watchers. The 'Losties' discovered the haven that was 'The Hatch' with modern food, shelter, and medicine. They also discovered Desmond, who had been living in the Hatch for a while without human contact, and the 'Tailies' (the people that crashed in the tail section of the plane). This was a great season for more discoveries. We learn about the scientific Dharma Initiative and how special the Island really is. We are also introduced, through flashbacks, the significance of the relationships between the characters, and circumstances they face on the Island. One of the most significant characters of the story is introduced in this season, which is the character of "Henry Gale" who has a back-story that makes him not as innocent as he seems.
This season introduced new characters and situations that had many heads spinning but kept us wanting more. With the introduction of the Dharma Initiative and the many stations that were on the Island along with more survivors battling against the Others, Season Three couldn't come any faster.
Season 3 Review by Katlyn
Synopsis: Season 3 kicks off with Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) held captive by the Others; Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Sun (Yunjin Kim), and Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) on a mission to rescue them; and Locke, Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) in the aftermath of the electromagnetic pulse that blew up the hatch. Spinning the story lines away from base camp alone wouldn't have felt so disjointed were it not for the new characters simultaneously being introduced. First there's Juliet, a mysterious member of the Others whose loyalty constantly comes into question as the season goes on. Played delicately by Elizabeth Mitchell (Gia, ER, Frequency), Juliet is in one turn a cold-blooded killer, by another turn a sympathetic friend; possibly both at once, possibly neither at all. (She's also a terrific, albeit unwitting, threat to the Kate-Sawyer-Jack love triangle, which plays out more definitively this season.) On the other hand, there's the now-infamous Nikki and Paulo (Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro), a tag along couple who were cleverly woven into the previous seasons' key moments but came to bear the brunt of fans' ire toward the show (Sawyer humorously echoed the sentiments by remarking, "Who the hell are you?"). By the end of the season, at least two major characters die, another is told he/she will die within months, major new threats are unveiled, and--as mentioned before--the two-part season finale restores your faith in the series.
Review: If Season One was about the 'Losties' and Season Two about 'The Hatch', then Season Three comes in with being about 'The Others'. We left off with Kate, Jack, and Sawyer being held captive by the Others. Kate and Sawyer are being held outside in bear cages while Jack is kept inside, separate from the them. We soon discover that Jack is being held to perform a surgery on Henry Gale, who we now learn is Benjamin Linus, the leader of the Others. We learn that the Others actually live comfortably in houses with modern capabilities on another island about a mile off shore from the 'Losties' island. This was another fantastic season giving us answers but more questions by the end. No one was really sure of Juliet's motive with siding with Jack, and this created another piece in the Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle.
I enjoyed learning more about the Others, and their reasons for coming to the island. It was also interesting to finally understand the Others obsession with pregnant women and children, it seemed like the Island kept these women from having a full and healthy pregnancy. But this fact kept us on the edge of our seats to see if Sun could have a healthy child on the Island, time was not on her side. And the very last episode showing Jack and Kate off the island was the biggest shocker of all because we now knew that some did escape but which ones and do they go back?
Which has been your favorite season so far?
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