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“There’s No Place Like Home”
Synopsis: The face-off begins between the survivors and the mercenary team from the freighter. Written by: Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof. Directed by: Jack Bender. Original Airdate: May 15, 2008 (Part 1) and May 29, 2008 (Parts 2 & 3).
In this interview with “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof, we look back on some of the behind-the-scenes decisions for season four, why some fans may be troubled by season five’s emphasis on time travel, and why the worst episode in “Lost” history was also the most important episode in “Lost” history (from a production standpoint, anyway).
What material did you have to leave out because of the strike that you won’t be able to get back to?
I don’t think that there’s anything that just got basically junked. There’s stuff that got truncated, so you’re getting the Cliff’s Notes version of the story. Whereas there might have been an entire episode that was Charlotte’s flashbacks if there hadn’t been a strike, now you get the story but not the flashbacks. I think the complete jettisoning of a story plan would take the whole Jenga tower down. We have to do all that stuff to get to where we’re going. Nothing was so expendable that you could just say we couldn’t get to do this. The show would suffer for it. But the Michael story, we wanted to do something that was more redemptive for him than staying with the bomb and allowing Jin to get to the deck as he was spraying liquid nitrogen onto it. But it ended up having to be that, as opposed to something that was probably more heroic, more emotional, by virtue of the fact that we had to collapse our time frame. Originally, we were going to do an hour less than we wound up doing, and we had to beg for that. We were still rolling film, like, 11 days before it was on the air. It was all we could do to cram everything in there, and you go, “What are the major story points you can play?” and you need to connect the dots. The primary story focus was on the Oceanic Six, and everyone else had to defer. We had to explain how Jin died, and so that gave us less time for Michael’s redemptive arc, and we regret that.
EW’s Doc Jensen recommends us to re-watch the following episodes in preparation for next week’s premiere.
”THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME (PARTS 2 AND 3)”
Otherwise known as the Season 4 finale. Even if it’s still fresh in your mind, you might want to re-watch the Orientation Film for The Dharma Initiative’s time travel station, The Orchid, as well as the scene when Ben crawls down into the ice cavern and cranks the frozen donkey wheel — good context for the season premiere’s opening sequence. If you don’t feel like digging out the DVDs, ABC will re-broadcast the episode on Jan. 14.
LOST editors Henk Van Eeghen, Robert Florio, Mark J. Goldman and Stephen Semel have been nominated for an American Cinema Editors Award for their work on the Season 4 Finale “There’s No Place Like Home”.
The six episodes submitted by Lost’s producers to Emmy judges for the Outstanding Drama Series race were just revealed. The episodes are: “The Beginning of the End” , “The Constant”, “Ji Yeon”, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1″ and “There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3″.
The night scene in the raft was shot in studio instead of on the sea. “We were all thankful for it” says Jorge Garcia on his blog. “To make the appearance of moonlit water behind our head they rigged this:
A large frame with plastic wrap around it. And the grips would shake it to make “waves.”
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