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Summary: 10 less episodes, same hefty price
Comment: This season was shortened by ten episodes. Yet the price tag is still the same as last season. You do the math. It's a major rip off.
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Summary: The only reason to watch network TV
Comment: This season was awesome.
It gave us just enough info to keep the mystique alive and interesting.
If they explained everything it would deflate -- you can't explain everything with a non-linear storyline otherwise the interweaving floats away with the absence of conflict. There are 2 more season left, why would you want to know everything now?
Instead spend some time exploring what the show alludes to: the books, philosophers, religions, scientific theories...it goes on. Take some time to enjoy it as it is rather than have the whole meal stuffed in your face all at once. LOST is not a KFC meal bowl.
I was just re-reading A Brief History of Time with the echoes of some of my fav episodes of LOST (Casimir effect) and it enhanced the already great read.
If you are let down by this show, then just go "Imagine yourself-up a new submarine."
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Summary: LOWER THE PRICE!
Comment: They have to charge less when they are short 10 episodes! This is not fair.
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Summary: Another Season you can't miss
Comment: If it's May (or afterward) then it means you've missed another great season of Lost, maybe the penultimate of seasons. One more (likely disappointing and unfathomable, but still impossible to miss) season is in the offing, and this is your last chance to get up to speed.
LOST follows the hapless survivors of Oceanic 815, a flight that crashes on an enigmatic pacific island both exotic and menacing. On this island, the sick and dying become healthy, the weak become strong, time and space lose their linear meanings and the line between the living and the dead blurs. The survivors, dwindling in number, must contend both with a mysterious monster apparently made of smoke, and the island's existing residents, an implacable and ruthless band known as the others.
LAST YEAR ON LOST:
Rescue appears at hand - a boat, presumably sent by Penny, Desmond Hume's lover, has found the island. As the Others melt into the island Ben Linus, their leader (AKA, Fake Henry Gale) foolishly approaches Jack Schepard, begging him not to trust their would-be rescuers. Surprisingly, John Locke - previously left for dead by Linus - appears to echo his would be killer. And then the story flash-forwards (a first in a series based on flash-backs) and we see Jack back to the real-world (so to speak). Jack is consumed by an addiction to pain killers and a compulsion to return to the island which is somehow unreachable. Salvation hasn't been kind to Jack who is now a wreck. Now that we know that somebody was rescued, the only question is who survived? What happened? The stage is set for the tragic circumstances of the rescue of Oceanic 815.
TONIGHT ON LOST
It only covers a few days, but flashbacks (forwards) make it feel like 14 weeks have gone by. Several rescuers appear on the island, though it's unclear as to whether they mean the Lost of 815 any good. Jack and John have already split the survivors into two camps, but civil war is averted when armed guerrillas appear on the island to capture Ben and splatter anybody who gets in their way (or anybody else for that matter). Ben has a few tricks up his sleeve, one of which involves a spy on the "rescue" ship
In the future, we see that Hurley is unhinged again, while Sayyid has enlisted as some sort of spy working for...well, why spoil that? Kate has her day in court, or does she? Jack is back to looking like his jovial self, though we'll see the growing demons that will turn him into messed up Jack seen at the end of last season. We get a great episode for Hume in which his life suddenly comes to resemble a LOST script - and he finds himself being tossed back and forth through time. Expanded character studies of Ben Linus make him a formidable character (and just more formidable in general). We also see greater roles for the powerful Mr. Widmore and vulnerable Juliet Burke.
What didn't work: This was a shorter season than usual (writer's strike?) and boy will you feel it, so we don't get the same great arcs and plot lines of past seasons. Also, while we get to see our favorite characters, we don't get as much bout their dual nature as in the past (Juliet gets a lot of time, then disappears - it's clear that some of the LOST still don't trust her, but we've lost reason to doubt her). The show almost completely passes up a chance to expand on its newcomers - the mercenaries and the scientists. The flash-forwards seem nifty, but they don't have the finely-tuned structure of the old flashbacks - that is we don't see them elegantly stack together in chronological terms. Unwittingly, the show proves this when surreptitiously entwining a flash-forward around a flash-back - it's a great device, but it suggests that causation ain't what it used to be (or will be, or...).
What you can't miss: LOST manages to survive despite flirting with disaster in almost every episode, straddling lines of science-fiction and the supernatural without ever becoming a sci-fi or fantasy show. More than any other show, LOST manages to have its characters swap ends in terms of being sympathetic - with Jack morphing from heroic to self-righteous and power-hungry, while bad-guy Sawyer becomes a real hero. Abbreviated plot lines nevertheless set the right degree of tension, keeping us glued until that final shocking scene called "wait till next season!"
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Summary: Lost its edge a bit.
Comment: Lost: The Complete Fourth Season slipped in terms of storylines and the introduction of new characters. Lost is at its best with the original cast, everyone seems to hate new additions and I hate to say it but so do I. Of all the episodes from season 4, I only enjoyed half of them, maybe less. I really like this show so that's why I give it 4 stars, hopefully next season will really hit the mark. Buy this if you are a super-fan of this show, enjoy!
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