"Lost" Stranger in a Strange Land (2007)

Director:

Paris Barclay

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

21 February 2007 (Season 3, Episode 9)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

Sawyer, Kate and Carl reaches their island at night, and the reluctant Kate wishes to return for Jack...

Plot Keywords:

Plane Crash | Flashback | South Pacific | Survival | Doctor

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah (credit only)
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume (credit only)
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton (credit only)
Michael Emerson	...	Benjamin Linus
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (credit only)
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon (credit only)
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (credit only)
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace (credit only)
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke (credit only)
Kiele Sanchez	...	Nikki Fernandez (credit only)
Rodrigo Santoro	...	Paulo (credit only)

Runtime:

43 min | Germany:42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

The branding that Juliet received is the Scientology cross upside down.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Jack's tattoo's don't actually say "He walks among us, but he is not one of us." In fact this is nowhere near correct. A word by word explanation of the 4 Chinese characters on the tattoo: The first character means "eagle". The second character means "strike", as a verb. The third one means "long". The final one means "sky","space","void","empty". These characters are pronounced "ying ji chang kong" (in PinYin) These four characters are taken from a famous poem written by Chairman Mao Tse-tung (MAO Zhedong). It can be roughly translated as "Eagles high, cleaving sky", or more simply, "the Eagles fly up on the sky". But the poem itself has a deeper meaning. In the end of the first stanza, the poet asks, "who masters fate's rise and descent?"

Quotes:

Jack Shephard: We are going to make sure Ben keeps his word.
Juliet Burke: And how are we going to do that?
Jack Shephard: Together.

Movie Connections:

References "The Brady Bunch" (1969)

The worst episode of "Lost"

I've been guilty of resorting to cheap insults when describing "Stranger in a Strange Land", in addition to doing things like pretending it doesn't exist, skipping it on re-watches of the season (but not this one), and acting like it is the worst thing known to man. The reality is that "Stranger in a Strange Land" is merely a hilariously poor episode which was fortunate to be positioned after two fantastic episodes. Had this come in the midst of the Hydra island pod which opened the season I wouldn't have been the only person who completely gave up on the show. It's slightly worse than "Whatever the Case May Be" and is hence the worst episode of the series. The on-island stuff with the 'sheriff' and the cow-like labels etc. is pretty outrageously dumb on its own but combine it with a flashback about, believe it or not, Jack's TATTOOS, and it gets pretty unbelievably dumb. Not worth talking about in detail.