Western Courier

Issue date: 9/16/05 Section: The Edge

Next week the second season of one of television's most successful shows, "Lost," premiers Wednesday at 8 p.m. And just in time is season one on DVD.

"Lost" begins with a thrilling pilot episode in which a jetliner traveling from Australia to Los Angeles crashes, leaving 48 survivors on an unidentified island with no sign of civilization or hope of imminent rescue. But if that would be the only problems, this wouldn't be a show. There is an unknown monster that roams in the jungle, the weather has sporadic rainstorms, polar bears on an island, a radio transmission that has been sending an SOS signal for 16 years and there are other inhabitants on the island.

The show centers around 14 characters and their storylines before their doom on Oceanic Flight 815. Every episode focuses on a character's background and how it got them to be who he or she is now.

The seven-disc DVD contains all 24 episodes and over eight hours of bonus features. In the bonus features you are treated to find out how the show originated and what plans to do with the central characters (Jack played by Matthew Fox, was supposed to die in the first episode). There also is a documentary of how the characters bought a plane, wrecked it and shipped it over to Oahu, an island in Hawaii where the show is shot.

In the deleted scene feature, there are only two flashbacks that didn't air in the season finale. In one flashback you meet the pilot of the flight who dies in the first episode by the unknown monster in a flashback of Claire's. There also are 13 more deleted scenes that deal with the cast on the island. And there also is the always funny bloopers reel.

"Lost" is up for an Emmy for Best Drama for a reason. It's mysterious and fun to watch. The DVD gets you ready for the second season and more. With over 1,068 minutes in the seven DVDs it is definitely worth every minute.

- William Roman

Edge staff

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