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		List Price: $134.00		Label: ABC Studios Salesrank: 2315 Released: December 8, 2009
		Our Price: $89.99
		Used Price: $74.99
		MPAA Rating: Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
The epic story of Lost twists, turns and time-shifts in its outstanding fifth season. Packed with hours of never-before-seen bonus features and exploding off the screen with a pristine picture and theater-quality sound, LOST is an astonishing new experience on Blu-ray High Definition. When destiny calls, the Oceanic 6 find their way back to the island. Discover what forced them to return, and find out the fate of all those who were left behind. Explore innovative new bonus features, including Lost University, an immersive collegiate experience powered by BD-Live where you can interactively examine the themes, stories and secrets of LOST. The answers to some of the series' most pressing questions are revealed in this spectacular 5-disc Blu-ray Hi-Def collection. You'd be crazy not to watch, proclaims Matt Roush of TV Guide

Description of Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit [Blu-ray]:
Since Lost made its debut as a cult phenomenon in 2004, certain things seemed inconceivable. In its fourth year, some of those things, like a rescue, came to pass. The season ended with Locke (Terry O'Quinn) attempting to persuade the Oceanic Six to return, but he dies before that can happen--or so it appears--and where Jack (Matthew Fox) used to lead, Ben (Emmy nominee Michael Emerson) now takes the reins and convinces the survivors to fulfill Locke's wish.

As producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse state in their commentary on the fifth-season premiere, "We're doing time travel this year," and the pile-up of flashbacks and flash-forwards will make even the most dedicated fan dizzy. Ben, Jack, Hurley (Jorge Garcia), Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Sun (Yunjin Kim), and Kate (Evangeline Lilly) arrive to find that Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) have been part of the Dharma Initiative for three years. The writers also clarify the roles that Richard (Nestor Carbonell) and Daniel (Jeremy Davies) play in the island's master plan, setting the stage for the prophecies of Daniel's mother, Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan), to play a bigger part in the sixth and final season.

Dozens of other players flit in and out, some never to return. A few, such as Jin (Daniel Dae Kim), live again in the past. Lost could've wrapped things up in five years, as The Wire did, but the show continues to excite and surprise. As Lindelof and Cuse admit in the commentary, there's a "fine line between confusion and mystery," adding, "it makes more sense if you're drunk." Other extras include deleted scenes, featurettes, a "lost" episode of Mysteries of the Universe, and commentary from writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz on "He's Our You," a reference to Sayid, who tries to change the future by changing the past. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit [Blu-ray] Reviews:
I love it
2009-12-16 - As I read through these reviews I was kind of surprised by some of them. If you are a fan of the show I don't understand why you wouldn't love this. I don't think the price is bad for this what you get. I paid under 80 bucks and that including taxes and shipping. I like the packaging its fun and its got me pumped for the final season to start. I guess they could have done something more expensive and maybe used a hardwood case instead of the cardboard box that the folder comes. And maybe they could have used the more traditional DVD holder case that houses all the DVD's together like they did for the past season's offering. I have to say I like the DVD holders in this set. I like how they look like old floppy discs from the early 80's. Sure they are made of paper but if they would have made the kit nicer it probably would have cost a lot more and I most likely wouldn't have been able to afford it. So I think it was nice that they offered up a nice collectable for under 80 buck. If you're not sure if you want this collectors edition all I can say is for me it is worth the money but you can still just get the normal season 5 DVD release if you disagree.




Cynical explotation of the show's fans - don't waste your money
2009-12-13 - This set is designed to steal the money of people who are dedicated to the show. Everything about the packaging amounts to the most cynical sort of explotation.

What do you get for all the money:

(1) A song thats been available on itunes for months.

(2) A VHS tape containing an amaturish reworked version of a orientation film already seen in the show. Why do I want to go find a VCR to watch something I've mostly already seen and which adds absolutely NOTHING to what was already seen. Its not important. Its not entertaining.

(3) A bunch of printed extras full of bad jokes and without any interesting content. There is only one exception. There is a truce document included that is the kind of content people want. But it requires that the packaging be damaged to look at it.

(4) A bunch of patches. And they cared *so much* that some packages have an extra patch (the submarine). When your down to putting bonus items in something this expensive, its just tacky.

(5) Its nonstandard size. It doesn't fit on shelves and it doesn't fit into most DVD collections.

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who actually wanted to watch the season. This is strictly a rare collectors item that you never open and put somewhere for a few years in the hope that it increases in value. I mean given all the features (the damage-to-open packaging, the VHS tape, the submarine patch), thats the market this thing was really designed for.

A little pricey for what you get...
2009-12-12 - Okay, I had a great time opening and exploring everything in this package. But the extras don't add any information or solve any mysteries, and it's going to be a bit of a pain to store this gigantic box. I like that the set is designed to resemble a Dharma orientation kit, but I agree with the reviewer who mentioned the very non-70s glossy brochures, which significantly lessen the authenticity of the "Dharma recruit" experience. And I would have liked more (MANY more) cast photos; for instance, a shot of Hurley doling out Dharma chili would have been a great addition to the cafeteria brochure.

I'm not going to complain about the VCR tape, since I'm still languishing in the stone age with a DVD/VCR combo unit, and someone mentioned you can watch the content on YouTube.

I'm fairly bummed that my package didn't include the fifth patch. I have to wonder who thought it was a good idea to randomly reward some customers while depriving others who paid the same price.

All in all, this is a fun package and a serious LOST fan wouldn't want to miss it, but I would have been much more satisfied with the value (especially given the lack of the submarine patch) if the price had been about 33% lower.

hmmm...
2009-12-12 - ok...

im kinda torn on this purchase... i mean... i really like LOST... but... this set was a bit of a letdown.

first of all... i didnt get the sub patch... which i find to be completely ridiculous considering only the biggest of fans would buy this set to begin with... why wouldnt they just put the patch in every box?

secondly... the holes holding the bluray sleeve pages to the binder became ripped during shipping... so now i just have a couple of loose pages... pretty annoying...

and thirdly... this thing is MASSIVE... pictures dont really do it justice... i really had no idea it would be as big as it is... from all the pictures i saw before it came out, i just figured it was an oversized bluray case... its a FRIGGIN 3 RING BINDER! where exactly am i supposed to put this thing?

I will say however that the outside box is actually really cool. which sounds kinda stupid considering its basically just a cardboard box with "fancy printing"

but anyway... the show is great and all... and its the only reason this set isnt rated any lower... i was just hoping this set would be better.



For any real Lost Fan but the whole patch thing is wrong...
2009-12-11 - This is an amazing box set! One of the best box sets I have ever seen. Instead of a normal 'Special Edition' box set that my have one extra item. This comes with papers that makes you feel like you were actually just brought into the DHARMA initiative. It comes in a white 3 ring binder which automatically had me jumping. Everything inside makes you feel like you were about to start your new job. The DVD's themselves come in very nice plastic holders ,although, I don't know about their choice of paper covers instead of actual cardboard covers. One of mine were rather crinkled and bent (I might talk to amazon about exchanging it but I don't know yet). I am one of the crazed fans who refuses to open the back of the envelope so I can't say much about that.

My only concern and complaint is after spending all this money- they chose to have a patch be very specific to certain kits. I didn't get the patch but it bugged me to think that they would make it seem like we will run out and buy another kit and to think that those kits (because they were in short supply) will end up being worth more than the none extra patch kit bugs me too.

Like I said though, GET IT IF YOU ARE A LOST FAN! This made my day to open! I can't wait to see what they do to the sixth season, it will be hard to top this!