Lost season 3
| Lost Season 3 | |
|---|---|
| Season 3 | |
| File:LostS3Promo.jpg Tagline: Find Yourself... Lost | |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 4, 2006 – May 23, 2007 |
| Season chronology | |
The third season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing in the United States and Canada on October 4, 2006 and concluded on May 23, 2007. The third season continues the stories of a group of over forty people who have been stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific, after their airplane crashed sixty-eight days prior to the beginning of the season.[1] In the Lost universe, the season takes place from November 28 to December 23, 2004. The producers have stated that as the first season is about introducing the survivors and the second season is about the hatch, the third season is about the Others, a group of mysterious island inhabitants.[2]
In response to fan complaints about scheduling in the previous seasons, the episodes originally aired in two blocks without reruns.[3] In the United States, the first block consisted of six episodes aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm and after a twelve week break, the season continued with the remaining sixteen episodes at 10:00.[4] In addition, three clip-shows recapped previous events on the show. "Lost: A Tale of Survival" aired a week before the premiere, "Lost Survivor Guide" aired before the second block[5] and "Lost: The Answers" aired before the finale.[6] Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release the season under the title Lost: The Complete Third Season – The Unexplored Experience on December 11, 2007 in Region 1.[7] It will be available as a seven-disc boxed DVD set and as a six-disc Blu-ray set.[8]
Crew
The season was produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Studios), Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and was aired on the American Broadcasting Company network in the United States of America. The executive producers for the third season were co-creator J.J. Abrams, co-creator Damon Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Jeff Pinkner and carlton Cuse.[9] The staff writers were Lindelof, Cuse, co-executive producer Edward Kitsis, co-executive producer Adam Horowitz, co-executive producer Drew Goddard, supervising producer Elizabeth Sarnoff, Pinkner, story editor Christina M. Kim and executive story editor Brian K. Vaughan.[10] The regular directors were Bender, supervising producer Stephen Williams, Paul Edwards and Eric Laneuville. Lindelof and Cuse served as the show runners.[11]
Cast
The season featured sixteen major roles with star billing, making it the second largest ensemble cast of the 2006–2007 television season, behind ABC's Desperate Housewives. Characters are briefly summarized and ordered by billing and number of third season appearances.
Evangeline Lilly stars as fugitive Kate Austen, who is unsure if she loves Jack or Sawyer more.[12] Matthew Fox stars as doctor Jack Shephard, the leader of the castaways.[13] Josh Holloway portrays the sardonic con-man James "Sawyer" Ford. Elizabeth Mitchell joined the cast as Juliet Burke, an Other trying to escape the island.[14] Henry Ian Cusick was promoted to the main cast,[15] playing Desmond Hume, a man with a supernatural ability to foresee Dominic Monaghan's character Charlie Pace's death. Naveen Andrews acts as Sayid Jarrah, a former Iraqi Republican Guard.[16] Second season guest star Michael Emerson was promoted to the main cast as Ben "Henry Gale" Linus, a high-ranking manipulative Other.[17] Jorge Garcia's character Hurley Reyes continued to serve as the show's comic relief.[18] Daniel Dae Kim plays non-English speaking Jin Kwon, the son of a fisherman, with Yunjin Kim as Jin's English-speaking pregnant wife Sun.[19] Terry O'Quinn plays John Locke, an alienated survivor with a deep connection to the island.[20] Emilie de Ravin portrays single new mother Claire Littleton.[21] Rodrigo Santoro and Kiele Sanchez also joined as previously unseen crash survivors Paulo and Nikki Fernandez. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje briefly returned as Mr. Eko.[22]
The third season featured numerous recurring guest stars. M. C. Gainey plays the Other Tom.[23] Tania Raymonde plays Alex, while Mira Furlan plays her mother Danielle Rousseau, who meets Alex for the first time since she was born during the third season.[24] Andrew Divoff acts as the eye-patched Other Mikhail Bakunin and Nestor Carbonell acts as the ageless Other Richard Alpert. Marsha Thomason's character Naomi Dorrit parachutes onto the island.[25] Blake Bashoff plays Alex's boyfriend Karl. Michael Bowen portrays the vengeful Other Pickett and William Mapother portrays the late Other, Ethan Rom. Sonya Walger plays Desmond's off-island girlfriend Penny Widmore. Brian Goodman plays the Other Ryan Pryce. L. Scott Caldwell and Sam Anderson briefly return as Flight 815 married couple Rose Henderson and Bernard Nadler.
Special guest stars are actors and actresses who were once given star billing, but due to a character's death or escape from the island, now appear on occasion. First season main cast member Ian Somerhalder reprised his role in hallucinations and flashbacks as Boone Carlyle, as did his step-sister Shannon Rutherford, played by Maggie Grace.[26] Malcolm David Kelley returned for a single scene as ten-year old Walt Lloyd.[27]
Reception
| "After criticism… reached its zenith, the backlash drew a backlash. Down the stretch, critics lauded Lost for one powerhouse episode after another, satisfying frustrated viewers by providing long-sought answers to some mysteries while simultaneously igniting strong new plotlines." |
| — Variety magazine[28] |
The first block of episodes was criticized for raising too many mysteries[29] and not providing enough answers.[30] Complaints were also made about the limited screen-time for many of the main characters in the first block.[31] Locke, played by Terry O'Quinn, who had tied for the highest second season episode count, appeared in only thirteen of twenty-two episodes in the third season – only two more than guest star M.C. Gainey, who played Tom. Reaction to two new characters, Nikki and Paulo was generally negative, with Lindelof even acknowledging that the couple was "universally despised" by fans.[32] The decision to split the season[33] and in the U.S., the timeslot switch after the hiatus was also criticized.[34] Cuse acknowledged that "No one was happy with the six-episode run."[35] The second block of episodes was critically acclaimed however,[36] with the crew dealing with problems from the first block.[37] More answers were written into the show[38] and Nikki and Paulo were killed off.[39] It was also announced that the series would end three seasons after the third season,[40] which Cuse hoped would tell the audience that the writers knew where the story was going.[41] The third season was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards, including nominations for directing and writing.[42] O'Quinn won the third season's only Emmy award for acting in a supporting role.[43] The season averaged 14.6 million American viewers per episode, ranking seventeenth in viewership and ninth in the key adults 18–49 demographic.[44] The first block had an average of four million more viewers than the second block,[45] with the fourteenth episode meeting a ratings low for the series,[46] with 11.52 million viewers.[47]
Episodes
"Series #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Season #" refers to the episode's number in this particular season. "Featured character(s)" refers to the character(s), whose backstory is featured in the episode's flashbacks. The third season's episodes are altogether 989 minutes in length.[48]
| Series # | Season # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featured character(s) | Original airdate |
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References
- Lost: The Complete Third Season – The Unexplored Experience (2007-12-11) coming soon to Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- Lost Episode Guide at ABC.com
- Lost Episodic Press Releases at ABC Medianet
Notes
- ^ Fordis, Jeff, (January 22, 2007) "The Life of One of "The Others" Rests in Jack's Hands, on the Return of ABC's Lost," ABC Medianet. Retrieved on September 7, 2007.
- ^ Aurthur, Kate, (May 25, 2006) "Dickens, Challah and That Mysterious Island," The New York Times. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Covel, Bonnie, (October 3, 2006) "J.J. Abrams Talks About Lost and His Other Shows," About.com. Retrieved on September 7, 2007.
- ^ Mahan, Colin, (July 18, 2006) "Lost will be Broken in Two," TV.com. Retrieved on September 8, 2007.
- ^ Fordis, Jeff, (January 22, 2007) "Lost Survivor Guide," ABC Medianet. Retrieved on September 7, 2007.
- ^ Fordis, Jeff, (April 30, 2007) "Lost: The Answers," ABC Medianet. Retrieved on September 7, 2007.
- ^ Buena Vista Home Entertainment, (2007) "Lost - The Complete Third Season," ABC. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Snugglefish Media, (August 31, 2007) "Disney Reveals New Specs, Exclusive Extras for Lost: Third Season Blu-ray," High-Def Digest. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Lindelof, Damon, (January 2007) "Lost Producers," ABC Medianet. Retrieved on September 7, 2007.
- ^ Goldman, Eric, (December 26, 2006) "Comic Book Writer Gets Lost," IGN. Retrieved on September 1, 2007.
- ^ Keller, Joel, (January 15, 2007) "ABC's Show Runners Talk About Pitching, Network Notes, and Internet Scrutiny," TV Squad. Retrieved on August 30, 2007.
- ^ White, Cindy, (January 22, 2007) "Executive Producers Lindelof and Cuse Promise That They've Found the Plot Twists That Will Bring Viewers Back," Sci Fi. Retrieved on August 31, 2007.
- ^ Bain, Emily, (October 20, 2004) "Viewers Get Lost in Popular New ABC Show," The Tufts Daily. Retrieved on August 31, 2007.
- ^ Cuse, Carlton (writer), Pinkner, Jeff (writer) & Williams, Stephen (director). "Not in Portland." Lost, ABC. February 7, 2007. Episode 7, season 3.
- ^ Mullaney, Andrea, (July 30, 2006) "Scots Star Happy to Get Lost for a Year," The Sunday Mail. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Twair, Pat McDonnell, (April, 2005) "ABC-TV's Hit Series, Lost, Features Sayid, a Sensitive, Appealing Iraqi," Brittanica. Retrieved on September 1, 2007.
- ^ Simonson, Robert, (May 28, 2006) "Michael Emerson to Become Series Regular on TV's Lost," Playbill. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Garcia, Jorge (March 2006) "We Want Answers!," Maxim. Retrieved on August 31, 2007.
- ^ Juba, Scott, (June 28, 2006) "Yunjin Kim: Across Continents," The Trades. Retrieved on September 1, 2007.
- ^ Lindelof, Damon & Cuse, Carlton, (May 11, 2007) "Official Lost Podcast," American Broadcasting Company. Retrieved on August 31, 2007.
- ^ Disney (October, 2006) "Claire Littleton," ABC. Retrieved on September 1, 2007.
- ^ Veitch, Kristin, (November 2, 2006) "Lost Redux: Why, God, Why?!," E!. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Gainey, M.C., (April 16, 2007) "Official Lost Podcast," ABC. Retrieved on September 8, 2007.
- ^ Keck, William, (May 23, 2007) "After 3 Long Lost Seasons, a Rousseau Family Reunion," USA Today. Retrieved on September 8, 2007.
- ^ Rawson-Jones, Ben, (May 18, 2007) "Lost's Marsha Thomason Interview," DigitalSpy. Retrieved on September 8, 2007.
- ^ Lachonis, Jon, (March 21, 2007) "Lost's Exposé Reunites Fan Favorites," BuddyTV. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ BuddyTV staff, (May 25, 2007) "Lost Season Three Finale - Favorite Moments!," BuddyTV. Retrieved on July 8, 2007.
- ^ Frankel, Daniel & Levine, Stuart & Lowry, Brian & Weisman, Jon, (June 13, 2007) "Veteran TV Series to Get Serious Emmy Consideration," Variety. Retrieved on October 26, 2007.
- ^ Simunic, Steven, (March 15, 2007) "Why ABC's Lost Is Losing It," The Daily Californian. Retrieved on September 8, 2007.
- ^ Porter, Rick, (November 8, 2006) "Lost: Yep, That's a Cliffhanger," Zap2It. Retrieved on September 7, 2007.
- ^ Martin, Ed, (January 31, 2007) "Exclusive Interview! Lost Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse," MediaVillage. Retrieved on September 6, 2007.
- ^ Jensen, Jeff & Snierson, Dan, (February 8, 2007) "Lost and Found," Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on April 3, 2007.
- ^ Goldman, Eric, (November 7, 2007) "Writers Strike: Should Lost Air This Season?," IGN. Retrieved on November 8, 2007.
- ^ Brownfield, Robin, (March 28, 2007) "Naveen Andrews: Lost Should Start Earlier," SyFy Portal. Retrieved on September 8, 2007.
- ^ Ausiello, Michael, (November 7, 2007) "Ausiello on Lost, Buffy, Heroes, ER and More!," TV Guide. Retrieved on November 10, 2007.
- ^ Lachonis, Jon, (July 20, 2007) "Lost – When is an Emmy Snub not a Snub?," BuddyTV. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Jensen, Jeff, (May 29, 2007) "Flashforward Thinking," Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on September 7, 2007.
- ^ Pierce, Scott D., (May 23, 2007) "Is Lost Found?," Deseret Morning News. Retrieved on September 8, 2007.
- ^ Malcolm, Shawna, (March 29, 2007) "Lost Boss Explains Last Night's Double Demise," TV Guide. Retrieved on April 2, 2007.
- ^ Adalian, Josef, (May 6, 2007) Lost Set for Three More Years, Variety. Retrieved on September 6, 2007.
- ^ Ryan, Maureen, (January 14, 2007) "Lost Producers Talk About Setting an End Date and Much More," Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on September 6, 2007.
- ^ Cryer, Jon & Sedgwick, Kyra (July 19, 2007) "Primetime Emmys Complete 2007 Nominations List," Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved on August 5, 2007.
- ^ King, Susan, (September 16, 2007) "Emmys Live," The Los Angeles Times Envelope. Retrieved on September 16, 2007.
- ^ Nielsen, (May 25, 2007) "2006-07 Primetime Wrap," The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Nielsen, (June 5, 2007) "Season Program Rankings," ABC Medianet. Retrieved on September 20, 2007.
- ^ Nielsen, (June 2, 2007) "ABC's Lost Ratings at a Glance," Yet Another Useless Web Site. Retrieved on September 9, 2007.
- ^ Disney, (April 3, 2007) "Weekly Program Rankings," ABC Medianet. Retrieved on September 6, 2007.
- ^ Lost: The Complete Third Season – The Unexplored Experience, Buena Vista Home Entertainment. December 11, 2007. Back cover.
