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Lost Season 3
Season 3
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Find Yourself... Lost
No. of episodes22
Release
Original networkABC
Original releaseOctober 4, 2006 –
May 23, 2007 (scheduled; in production)
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For more details on this topic, see List of Season 3 Episodes

The third season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on October 4, 2006 and will finish airing on May 23, 2007. It continues the stories of a group of over 40 people who have been stranded on a remote island in the south Pacific, after their airplane crashed 68 days prior to the beginning of the season, while they are antagonized by a group of mysterious island inhabitants they call "The Others."

The season is produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Television Studio), Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and airs on the ABC Network in the U.S. Its incidental music is composed by Michael Giacchino. The executive producers are Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Jack Bender, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner and J.J. Abrams.[1] The staff writers are Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Jeff Pinkner, Drew Goddard, Christina M. Kim, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Celebrated comicbook writer Brian K Vaughan also joined the writing staff midway through the season. The regular directors are Jack Bender, Stephen Williams, Paul Edwards and Eric Laneuville. The third season has so far averaged 15.28 million viewers per episode.[2]

Broadcast history

Production of the season began on August 4, 2006.[3] Twenty-two episodes will be produced in total, the season finale of which will be twice the length of a normal episode. To limit the number of reruns in the United States and Canada, the first six episodes, that started October 4, 2006 and ended on November 8, were followed by twelve weeks with no episodes at all, and are continuing consecutively with the next sixteen episodes, which premiered on February 7, 2007.[4] 30-second teaser clips from the second segment of the season, entitled "Lost Moments" aired on television and online from November 15, 2006 until February 1, 2007. Extended versions of the episodes will be run following the completion of the season.[5] Two clip-shows also aired, "Lost: A Tale of Survival" on September 27, 2006 and the "Lost Survivor Guide" on February 7, 2007.

Cast

Starring

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From left to right: Ben, Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Charlie, Jack, Sayid, Locke, Sun, Desmond, Hurley, Jin & Juliet.

Recurring

Special Guest Stars

Plot

Background

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Jack, Kate & Sawyer captured by the Others while the sky turns purple right after destruction of the Swan.

Template:Spoiler The third season continues 68 days after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, set on September 22, 2004. At the end of the second season, three of the crash survivors - Jack, Kate and Sawyer - were captured by the mysterious island inhabitants known as "The Others". The Others' apparent leader is a man who was captured in the middle of the second season and used the alias "Henry Gale." Meanwhile, near the survivors' camp on the beach, Locke, Mr. Eko, Charlie and Desmond argued over whether to continue entering the numbers into a computer in a workstation that was previously operated by a group of scientists known as the DHARMA Initiative. Locke became frustrated and destroyed the computer, which caused the station to implode and a purple light shone over the sky, which was accompanied by a harsh ringing sound.

Island plot summary

The activities of the Others immediately prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 are revealed, as they are shown to have been living in modern suburban houses in a previously unseen section of the island. Their leader appears to be Benjamin Linus, known as Henry Gale among the survivors.

Jack, Kate and Sawyer are imprisoned on a separate island offshore from the survivors' island and kept under surveillance by Ben's cameras. Kate and Sawyer are kept in outdoor cages, apparently designed for polar bears, and are let out to do hard labor. Jack is kept inside the "Hydra", an underwater DHARMA Initiative station. He is interrogated by an Other named Juliet, who does not show the same reverence to Ben as do the rest of the Others. Jack finds out that Ben has a spinal tumor, and the operation Ben needs is the main reason for Jack’s captivity. During Ben’s surgery, Jack incises Ben's kidney sac, which he uses as bargaining power to help Kate and Sawyerescape. They do, and Jack is moved from the Hydra island to the Others' home and develops a friendship with Juliet.

The "smoke monster" lures Mr. Eko into the jungle by taking the form of his deceased brother Yemi, and then beats Eko to death. After the implosion of the hatch Desmond gained the ability to foresee future events, most notably Charlie's approaching death. Nikki and Paulo are buried alive after being mistaken for dead, when in fact they had been bitten by venomous spiders, causing an eight-hour paralysis.

Kate, Locke and Sayid trek to save Jack from the Others, with Rousseau joining them with the hope of regaining her daughter Alex, who had been captured 16 years prior. They find the final DHARMA station, "The Flame," and two occupants, both of whom die shortly after with Locke killing Russian communications expert Mikhail by pushing him through a sonic barrier (Mikhail does, however, reappear in "D.O.C." alive.). The rescue team finds Jack, apparently living happily with the Others. Locke destroys the Others' submarine, and discovers that they have his father in captivity. The Others abandon their homes soon after, taking Locke with them, but leaving behind Jack, Kate, Sayid and Juliet. Juliet sets up camp on the beach to live with the survivors and helps save Claire while she is sick. It is revealed that all pregnant women on the island die—which Juliet tells some of the islanders—and that Juliet is spying on the islanders for Ben and the Others.

Later, Desmond has a vision including a flashing red light falling from the sky, a parachutist, and a photo of him and his former fiancee, Penny. He thinks his vision means that Penny has come to rescue him. Instead, the parachutist turns out to be a woman named Naomi. She is gravely injured in the fall, then an OTHER, Mikail (PATCHES),helps them save her in exchange for his freedom. The OTHER appears to by the same russian man from the Flame except that he has an eye patch on his other eye. Also, strangly enough, he died in an earlier episode when he went past the sonic barrier around the barracks. As she comes to, Naomi tells Desmond, Charlie and Hugo that the wreckage of Flight 815, including the corpses of all aboard was found.

Meanwhile, Sun is examined by Juliet who reveals that the father of Sun's baby is Jin and that it was conceived on the island, which means that Sun has about 2 months left to live. When Locke left with the Others he found that they had been holding his father Anthony Cooper hostage in their cells. Ben Linus told Locke that he should kill his father in order to let go of the tortchured image of the pathetic man in the wheelchair he has carried around with him in his head since he was pushed out of the 8th floor window. But Locke doesnt have the heart to kill his dad, so another Other, named Richard, reveals to Locke about Sawyer's history and why he chose the name Sawyer. It is clear to Locke that Cooper is the man that stole money from Sawyer's parents which led to Sawyer's parent's death... So, Sawyer kills Cooper instead. Locke then goes back to the other's to get answers about the Others' past on the island from Ben, but not before giving Sawyer a tape recorder with proof on it that Juliet is a mole, and there is soon going to be a raid on the camp for all the pregnant women.

The survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 have been stranded on the island for 90 days (set at December 21, 2004) at the end of the nineteenth episode.

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Impact

Ratings

The third season premiere was watched by 18.82 million viewers in the United States,[6] a drop from the second season premiere, which was viewed by 23.47 million.[7] The six autumn episodes averaged 17.84 million viewers.[8] The second set of episodes switched timeslots from 9:00 to 10:00, so as not to again lose viewers to American Idol; however, Lost saw a huge drop in the ratings, despite consistently winning its timeslot in the key 18-49 demographic,[9] and the producers later admitted that the timeslot change had been a mistake for ABC.[10] Lost also met new series lows with the eighth episode, which was watched by 12.84 million viewers,[11] the tenth episode, watched by 12.78 million viewers,[12] the eleventh episode with 12.45 million viewers,[13] the thirteenth episode watched by 12.22 million[14] and the fourteenth episode with 11.52 million viewers.[15]

Reception

The third season, while still incredibly popular, endured more criticism than the show had in its previous years. The first segment of episodes has been criticized as not bearing the same quality of the prior seasons. Show runner Damon Lindelof responded that when the second season was aired, it was criticized as not being as enjoyable as the first season.[16] The main complaint is that new mysteries are being introduced at a faster rate than old mysteries being solved, and numerous articles on this criticism were written for newspapers and online journals.[17] A recurring complaint of the first half of the third season was that the storyline concentrated too much on the captivity storyline, resulting in limited screen-time for the rest of the cast on the beach.[18] Some fans also complained that the advertisements were misleading and the episodes did not live up to the hype. The fall finale was advertised by ABC as the best Lost episode of 2006.[19] The most notable reaction was to new characters Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro), who were intended to have a long story arc revealing their connections on the island. However, the two were met with harsh criticism from viewers due to their sudden, seemingly arbitrary inclusion, and were soon killed off after a single, darkly humorous "side-story" episode. Over the course of the extended hiatus about a third of the way through the season, the producers likely took note of the negative publicity and re-evaluated their course of action, as the narrative for the third season began to become more focused, the answers to the show's mysteries began coming at a more frequent rate, and general critical reaction of the show improved significantly, with many fans and members of the public proclaiming it had regained its strength[20].

Awards

The episodes, writers, producers and actors of the third season have won Image and Golden Reel awards and have been nominated for Golden Globe, Saturn, C.A.S., Golden Reel, Episodic Television Producer of the Year and Writers Guild of America awards.[21]

References

  1. ^ Current Lost Producers at ABC Medianet
  2. ^ March 20, 2007 ABC Medianet I. T. R. S. Primetime Season Rankings Report Press Release
  3. ^ ABC MediaNet Press Release: Production Begins on the Third Season of Lost
  4. ^ Official Lost Podcasts
  5. ^ Is Season Three the Last Chance for Lost at BuddyTV
  6. ^ October 10, 2006 ABC Medianet Weekly Program Rankings Press Release
  7. ^ September 27, 2005 ABC Medianet Weekly Program Rankings Press Release
  8. ^ February 6, 2007 I. T. R. S. Season Primetime Program Ranking Report Press Release
  9. ^ February 21, 2007 ABC Medianet Weekly Primetime Ratings Wrap-Up Press Release
  10. ^ BuddyTV Interview with Executive Producers and Writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on March 7, 2007
  11. ^ February 21, 2007 ABC Medianet Weekly Program Rankings Press Release
  12. ^ March 6, 2007 ABC Medianet Weekly Program Rankings Press Release
  13. ^ March 13, 2007 ABC Medianet I. T. R. S. Primetime Ranking Report Press Release
  14. ^ March 27, 2007 ABC Medianet I. T. R. S. Weekly Primetime Ranking Report Press Release
  15. ^ April 3, 2007 ABC Medianet I. T. R. S. Primetime Ranking Report Press Release
  16. ^ Interview with Damon Lindelof: How will Lost End?
  17. ^ Why ABC’s ‘Lost’ Is Losing It by Steven Simunic of The Daily Californian on March 15, 2007
  18. ^ Lost Stars Bemoan Screen Time at IMDb
  19. ^ "I Do" Preview on YouTube
  20. ^ FARK.com comments thread illustrating popular consensus of the show's late-season improvement
  21. ^ Awards for Lost (2004) on IMDb

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