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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 c 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 ced 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 kipped 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.
On the DVD
Commentaries by various cast members and producers reveal little
other than the occasional easter egg (the Dharma logo on the
shark fin, Walt's mumbling translating to "Don't push the button;
the button is bad" backwards). But disc seven opens with an eerie
Hanso Foundation instructional video, leading you to eight hours
of bonus features, including cast members' own theories, deleted
scenes, and featurettes on specific episodes. It's all well and
good for Lost fanatics, but if you want the cream of the crop,
check out: "Lost Connections," an interactive feature that
reveals how all the islanders are actually linked (for instance,
one of the officers who captured Sayid during the Gulf War is
Kate's her); a Channel UK promo for the show directed by David
LaChappelle in which cast members suck in their cheeks and,
dressed in evening wear, tango in slow motion as if in a Calvin
Klein ad (it has to be a joke, right?); and "The World According
to Sawyer," which strings together each of the un-PC nicknames
and pop culture references spewed by Holloway's character.
Favorites include "Chewie" for Jin and "Ponce de Leon" for Ana
Lucia. It's by far the cherry on top of a sweet dessert. --Ellen
A. Kim