"Lost" Homecoming (2005)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Kevin Hooks

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

9 February 2005 (Season 1, Episode 15)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

After the missing Claire returns with no recollection of what has happened since before the doomed flight of Oceanic 815...

Plot Keywords:

Labrador Retriever | Mysterious Island | Plane Crash | Flashback | Survival

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 18

11:35 PM

ABC

Homecoming

#1.15

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Maggie Grace	...	Shannon Rutherford
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Malcolm David Kelley	...	Walt Lloyd
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Harold Perrineau	...	Michael Dawson
Ian Somerhalder	...	Boone Carlyle
William Mapother	...	Ethan Rom

Runtime:

41 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:15 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

Charlie's date Lucy mentions that her dad is out of town looking to buy a paper company in Slough. This is a reference to the British show "The Office" (2001) which took place at a paper company in Slough.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During Jack and Ethan's fight, you can clearly see that the man Jack tackles is not William Mapother, but a stuntman.

Quotes:

Ethan Rom: Charlie, I want her back.
Charlie: What? I...
Ethan Rom: I want you to bring her back.
Charlie: What did you do to her?
[Charlie grabs a stick and tries to hit Ethan]
Charlie: What did you do?
Ethan Rom: You bring her here. If you don't, I'm going to kill one of them. And then if you don't bring her back before sundown tomorrow I'll kill another, and another, another. One everyday. And Charlie, I'll kill you last.

Movie Connections:

References "The Office" (2001)

"Audience, let's repeat a couple of points: Charlie is very addicted to heroin, and Ethan's people are mean."

"Homecoming" is two unrelated episodes in one. Damon Lindelof, normally capable of writing scripts with real flow, penned "Homecoming", an episode with a hopelessly boring and completely pointless Charlie flashback, and an involving if flawed mythology-centric island story involving Ethan and Scott (or is that Steve?).

"Homecoming" is one of the episodes I tend to avoid watching too many times. It has several iconic scenes that one remembers so well, but virtually everything outside those iconic scenes is mediocre. Charlie's flashback does nothing but reiterate that he's struggling with addiction, and it is horrifically poorly-written by Lindelof, easily the worst work I've seen from him on this show.

The on-island events with Ethan's threats and Claire's return are fairly enjoyable, but hugely inconsistent, with some of the dialogue frankly making me cringe. The episode is directed terribly by Kevin Hooks, continuing the severe lack of visual quality in the first season of "Lost", where three out of the fifteen episodes thus far have been notably well-directed.

6/10