Lost Season 2 DVD - Disc 7 Special

Well, as some of you have noticed, LOST Season 2 DVDs became available on September 5. Unfortunately, I had preordered them, so had to wait for them to ship; I’ll admit I was tempted just to run out and buy them from a brick & mortar store! But I waited patiently, and today when they came, spent quite some time going through the fun extras in Disc 7, the Bonus DVD with extras.

To start off with, it has one of the most creative opening menus I’ve seen lately, with Dr. Candle directing you (the viewer) on your “mission”. The extras are thus divided into 3 “Phases”: “Observation” (1), “Conditioning” (2) and “Conclusion” (3).

The basic outline of the discs:

Phase 1:

Phase 2:

Phase 3

So far, I’ve gone through about 1/3 of the features (trying out this-and-that), and still no end in sight… but that’s a good thing. :) I think compared to the S1 DVDs, there was more thought put into this. I get the impression that they know what most fans are looking for now… a little hint of the “insider secrets”, and are giving us more to explore this round.

Read more below, but be forewarned that I do go into some small details about what is in the extra sections.

Possible Spoilers

The “Lost Connections” section takes some getting used to for navigating. I know a few people have mapped out most of the connections online… again, Lostpedia has a nice page on this. There’s been quite a bit of speculation on who the “Mysterious Waving Figure” is (shadowy figure in static) that connects Jack, Claire & Christian (leading back to this idea that Jack and Claire could be siblings).

Check also Lostpedia’s main S2 DVD page for all the Easter Eggs (hidden features that will only come out if you play around with the buttons of your remote a lot). For instance, when you register your DVD, you can press the “left” button of your remote until a Geronimo Jackson record pops out, and when you press “5″, you’ll hear the producers discussing the background of this fictional band.

My favorite part so far is probably the “Secrets from the Hatch” section. Probably because there has been so much speculation about Swan Station and its purposes since the beginning of Season 2, and now we get an inside look at how and why it was built (both as a set, and a conceptually, in the story). Damon Lindelof mentions an interesting metaphor that the Swan is like a “thumb” keeping a leak in a dam from getting through (that it was built to contain the electromagnetism since the Incident).

I’ve still yet to go through all the deleted scenes. There are little tidbits gleaned from those, such as that Rose tells Sun she had a daughter that passed away…whether anything can be made of them is anyone’s guess (since we don’t know why the production team cut them).

All in all, recommended if you are like me, and want to squeeze every bit of insight or hint that TPTB (”The Powers That Be”) are willing to drop. It certainly does help pass the time before October 4!

-Cecilia