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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
3.22 Through the Looking Glass Charlie: "So much for fate." Wow. Is it possible to be thrilled and disappointed at the same time? This was a massively cool episode, even by Lost's high standards. There were some absolutely fabulous moments. Charlie's amazing sacrifice. Hurley saving the day with his hippie van. Danielle finally meeting her daughter. That final scene with Jack and Kate near the airport, of all places. But I feel like they broke the rules of narrative, and took me somewhere I didn't want to go. They were rescued? Really? The flashbacks had me totally fooled. They felt wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on why. I kept wondering, when did Jack hit bottom, and how can this possibly fit into his previous flashbacks? Dan recognized how new the cell phone was and thought they'd made an anachronistic mistake. Jack even told the new head of surgery to get his father down there. How could Christian still be alive? Alternate universe? Was Jack drunk and delusional? Who was in that coffin? It was someone so disliked that no one showed up for the funeral. Someone whose death pushed Jack into nearly jumping off a bridge. And who was the "he" that Kate needed to get back to? Sawyer? Their child? Nathan Fillion? And why wasn't she in jail? Hoffs/Drawlar, the name of the funeral parlor, is an anagram for "flash forward." I wonder if we just saw a flash forward to the end of the series. Maybe they're getting off the Island... but not quite yet. There were just so many unanswered questions and inconsistencies. The biggest was that Naomi wasn't working for Penny Widmore, after all, as Charlie told Desmond in his second to last act on earth. Charlie had time to get out before the compartment flooded, but he chose not to. I think Charlie believed that he was going to die anyway, and decided to redeem himself in an act of total unselfishness. During all of his final scenes, even when vicious Bonnie was beating him, Charlie was actually happy. His last act was to cross himself, and the circle of the porthole over his head looked like a halo. It was like he died in a state of grace. It was very moving. (I cried, of course.) I thought we'd get a season finale bloodbath, and we got one, but it wasn't what I expected. The Lostaways took out most of the Others. Ben said that he made a decision that killed forty people, the Dharma people, in a single day. Bizarre coincidence that the number of Dharma people was the same as the number of Lostaways. What about the Others? Were there forty of them as well? I was sort of sorry to see Tom go. But Sawyer was right: Tom did kidnap Walt. Speaking of Walt, was he a vision, or the real thing? Did Walt and Michael end up back on the Island after all? Did Walt somehow heal Locke, or did Locke heal himself? Sawyer is clearly in need of a shrink. (Too bad Libby is dead.) He's so freaked about what happened in the Brig that he has ceased to nickname. At least he still cares about Kate and is trying to protect her. And he did the same thing to Hurley that Charlie did: he insulted him in order to save him. Hurley didn't need saving, though, did he? When they all left for the radio tower, it felt like we were leaving the beach forever. And I don't want them to leave the beach forever. Dan was worried that "Lost" just pulled an "Alias." Did they just irrevocably change the show, and not for the better? Will they move us ahead several years without resolving the past? How can we possibly wait until next February to find out? Character bits: -- I didn't think anything could make Matthew Fox look bad, but that scruffy black beard did the trick. -- Jack was popping "oxycondone" like M&Ms. Is that like oxycontin, the hillbilly heroin of Rush Limbaugh fame? -- Jack's ex-wife Sara was very pregnant. -- Mikhail is turning into Kenny. He dies in every episode and keeps coming back. We got a look at what was under the eyepatch. Bleah. -- Ben told Alex that he tried to brainwash Carl to keep him from getting Alex pregnant. That almost makes sense. -- Sayid broke a man's neck using just his legs. Sayid is scary as well as cute. -- Kate looked so odd in the flashback. Then I realized it was because she was clean, and wearing makeup. -- Rob Hamill, new chief of surgery, said that Jack was a hero twice over. Once was on the bridge where Jack was going to kill himself, pulling the woman (Mrs. Arlin?) and her eight-year-old son out of a burning car. When was the other? Fixing Sara? The crash of 815 on the beach? Something else? -- Jack told Kate that he loved her. I think it was as a friend, though, because he kissed Juliet. -- We got a close look at a lot of the beach extras. That rarely happens. Bits and pieces: -- Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney. Future Jack spends every weekend using his Oceanic golden pass looking for the Island. That had better not be next season's focus. -- The song Future Jack was listening to on the radio was by Nirvana. He was suicidal, so that fit. And the code to the jamming device, programmed by a musician, was "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys. Beach? Vibrations? A little tongue in cheek humor by the programmer? -- There was a rabbit head on the Looking Glass Hatch logo. I couldn't quite see it last week. -- Ben's map listed their campsite as "Pascal Flats." Quotes: Rose: "Say it, Bernard." Bernard: "I am a dentist. I am not Rambo." Rose: "And don't you forget it." Naomi: "What did you do for a living before you became Moses?" Jack: "I was a doctor." Naomi: "Right. Of course you were." She didn't believe him. In retrospect, I find that odd. Richard: "We're going to the radio tower?" Ben: "Not we, Richard. Me. You're going to take everyone to the Temple, as planned." Temple? What Temple? Mikhail: (to Bonnie and Greta) "I thought you two were on assignment in Canada." Canada? Juliet: "We were building a runway." Sawyer: "Runway? For what?" Juliet: "The aliens." Sawyer: "So. You screwing Jack yet?" Juliet: "No. Are you?" Funeral Director: "Friend or family?" Jack: "Neither." Ben: "Alex. This is your mother." Danielle: (to Alex) "Want to help me tie him up?" Season three has been the best so far, and despite my reservations, this was an excellent, crazy, thought-provoking season ender. Four out of four polar bears, Billie |