"Lost"
There's No Place Like Home: Part 2 (2008)

Director:

Jack Bender

Writers:

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

Series de televisión:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

29 mayo 2008 (Season 4, Episode 13)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Ben tries to escape Keamy's custody so that he and Locke can follow through with Jacob's request to move the island. Michael tries to neutralize the explosives on the boat, while the "Oceanic 6" move closer to rescue.

Plot Keywords:

Shooting | Lift | Helicopter | Explosion | Lifeboat

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Four seasons in and LOST still amazes

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume
Jeremy Davies	...	Daniel Faraday
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Michael Emerson	...	Ben Linus
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Ken Leung	...	Miles Straume
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Rebecca Mader	...	Charlotte Lewis
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke

Duración:

84 min

Idioma:

English | Korean | Portuguese

Clasificación:

Netherlands:12 | Canada:14+

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivialidades:

The voice in the phone call Kate receives is played backwards. When reversed it can be clearly heard to say: "The island beach, we have to go back before it's too late".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jack walks into the Funeral Parlour, we see the coffin from behind. Here the Body Release Form is on the smaller section of the coffin. Then we see the coffin from Jack's point of view. The Body Release Form is now on the larger section of the coffin. We then see it from behind again, when Jack is walking towards it. The form is now again on the smaller section of the coffin.

Movie Connections:

References First Blood (1982)

Soundtrack:

Gouge Away

Four seasons in and LOST still amazes

"There's No Place Like Home: Parts 2 & 3" proves that after four entire seasons "Lost" is still as fresh, original, brilliant, dramatic, and creative as it was at the very beginning. I actually think this might be my favorite finale for many reasons. Yes, "Through the Looking Glass" is a television masterpiece and astoundingly good drama but if you look at how much "There's No Place Like Home" accomplished in the same running time without feeling too congested or too slow it pales in comparison. Other than "The Constant" this is probably my favorite episode to date.

From the dramatic events on the freighter to the island's movement (I've been saying all along that's what happened at the end of season two) to Locke's taking over The Others to the interesting revelation about Charlotte to the Oceanic 6's escape to Desmond's reunion with Penny to the events in the Orchid to the final, shocking, brilliantly executed scene in the funeral parlor this episode was an intense, suspenseful episode that was low on the huge twists as in season 3 but still had but still managed to drop a line in the final scene that makes the anticipation for season five far more intense than for season four. The line was "in that time a lot of very bad things happened" on the island. Wow. If season five is filling in the gap between 2007/8 in the flashforwards and the current island time we are in for some brilliant episodes.

As an artistic achievement "There's No Place Like Home" is most certainly superior to most television episodes and considering its length to most films. When you consider that coming back off a writers' strike and having to write, film, produce, edit, and score six hours of television in the space of a few weeks it is simply outstanding that they managed to give us this stunner of an episode. Four seasons in and "Lost" is truly stronger than ever as a character drama, as a mythology-based series, and as an artistic achievement.

There are some big questions I'm uncertain about: What is Desmond's role in the series now that he's gotten a (beautiful) 'happy ending'? We do know that Ben has set out to kill Penny so that could be how he factors into the show from this point onwards. Also, is next season going to be a concurrent presentation of island events and off-island events? For that matter where did the island go? While nothing in this episode even came close to 'jumping the shark' it does introduce some ideas that could potentially make or break the show in the future.

Most are already assuming the island moved in space as well as time. I have no problem with this unlike some others, but there was a deliberately included line spoken in the intriguing Orchid station orientation film by Marvin Candle who said that the rabbits would "appear to have disappeared but in reality..." and then the tape rewinds. I think that is important and that the island has done something very similar in 'appearing to disappear'.

Michael Giacchino's musical score for this episode was impeccable and even superior to his efforts for the season 3 finale "Through the Looking Glass" (the complete score for which can be found on the season 3 music CD's). In addition to that the acting from everybody involved (literally EVERYBODY) was outstanding and Jack Bender's direction typically superlative.

As mentioned before it is amazing that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof were capable of producing a script of this superior quality under such massive pressure and on such a tight schedule. Never shortchanging the dramatic impact of the deaths of any given character (unlike in "Meet Kevin Johnson" where Rosseau's death was shockingly poorly-handled) or the amount of well-written dialogue and intriguing easter eggs that is expected of a Lost episode, especially a finale.

Brilliantly paced, packed with intense drama, interesting revelations, and promising a thrilling 34 hours to come, "There's No Place Like Home" is one of television's finest hours.

10/10

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Comments on season four in general: Season Four as a whole has been the most consistent season of "Lost" to date, probably. It is a shame however that they had to forsake some of the character-driven writing and mysterious atmosphere in favor of action/adventure storytelling in certain episodes but that is to be expected in many ways. Still, a whole lot of amazing episodes and the two best to date. How much more can you ask for?

Season average based on ratings for all episodes: 8.73/10