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"Hearts and Minds" is the thirteenth episode of the first season of the American television series Lost. The episode was directed by Rod Holcomb and written by Carlton Cuse and Javier Grillo-Marxuach. It first aired on January 12, 2005 on ABC. The episode sees Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder) experience a vision quest, believing his stepsister Shannon (Maggie Grace) to be dead. Through a series of flashbacks, it is revealed that Boone is in love with Shannon, and that they slept together prior to crashing on the island.

The episode was watched by 20.81 million American viewers and received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Reviewers were critical of Shannon as a character, with Daniel MacEachern of Television Without Pity opining that the episode would have been improved had her death not been a hallucination. Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly commented that the duplicitous presentation of Boone's visions caused her to distrust the show, while IGN's Chris Carabott criticized the vision plot, but enjoyed the character development of John Locke (Terry O'Quinn). Therese Odell of the Houston Chronicle deemed "Hearts and Minds" a transition episode, which she initially disliked, but enjoyed more upon repeat viewing.

Plot

Boone disapproves of the developing relationship between his stepsister Shannon and Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews). He attempts to warn Sayid off, but is ignored. Boone and Locke have been spending their time trying to open a hatch in the jungle, under the pretence of hunting for boar. Boone is becoming uneasy with lying to their fellow survivors, and protests that he wants to tell Shannon the truth. Locke knocks him unconscious, and Boone awakens to find himself tied up. Locke applies a paste to Boone's head wound, and leaves a knife embedded in the ground in front him, explaining that he will be able to reach it once he is properly motivated. After several unsuccessful attempts, Boone hears Shannon's screams and the sound of the island monster approaching. He is finally able to reach the weapon, and frees himself before searching for his sister.

Boone finds Shannon tied to a tree. He frees her, and they flee from the monster together. As he tells Shannon about the hatch, the monster attacks them and takes Shannon. Boone later finds her mutilated corpse by a creek. That night, he returns to the camp and tries to kill Locke in revenge, but Locke reveals that Shannon is alive, and the paste caused Boone to hallucinate. Boone confesses that when he believed Shannon was dead, he felt relieved.

Elsewhere on the island, Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) discovers that Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) secretly speaks English, and Sun asks her not to tell anyone. Hurley (Jorge Garcia) and Sun's husband Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) spend the day fishing, and when Hurley fails to catch anything and is injured in the attempt, Jin gives him a fish out of sympathy.

In a series of flashbacks throughout the episode, Boone is contacted by a distressed Shannon, who asks him to come to Sydney. He arrives to find Shannon bruised, and surmises that her boyfriend Bryan (Rod Holcomb) has been beating her. He reports this to the police, however the officer is dismissive of Boone's complaint, so he goes on to pay Bryan $50,000 to break up with Shannon, revealing that he has similarly paid off Shannon's boyfriends in the past. When he goes to collect Shannon she refuses to leave with him, and Boone realises that she has been conning him for money. After a brief fight with Bryan in which he is beaten, Boone leaves. That night, a drunken Shannon comes to Boone's hotel room and tells him that Bryan stole the money. She tells Boone that she knows he loves her and, although at first he tries to refuse her advances, they sleep together. Later, Shannon tells Boone that nothing has changed between them.

Production

The producers thought it would be interesting for there to be more to Shannon and Boone's relationship than just Boone's possessive brotherly interest.[1] They came up with the idea for them to be related stepsiblings, who have a romantic encounter, which became the twist for their backstory.[1][2]

Reception

"Hearts and Minds" was watched by 20.81 million American viewers, placing Lost as the sixth most viewed series in the weekly program rankings.[3] In Australia, Lost was the third highest watched show of the week, with 1.98 million viewers.[4] In the United Kingdom, the episode was watched by 3.56 million viewers.[5] It received the series' lowest viewership in the country up to that point, though factoring in the episode's E4 and Sunday repeat, it averaged around 6.5 million viewers in total.[6]

Critical reception of the episode was mixed to negative. Chris Carabott for IGN criticized the decision to focus the episode around Shannon and Boone, characters he felt "[brought] very little to the table", at the expense of "many more intriguing storylines and characters around them that deserve attention."[7] He called the episode "awkward and uninspired", though noted that it was "thankfully saved by some great John Locke character development."[7] Carabott rated the episode 6.6 out of 10.[7] Television Without Pity's Daniel MacEachern graded the episode 'B', though wrote that he would have graded it 'A+' had Shannon's death not been a hallucination, and had Lost actually killed off a major character halfway through the season.[8]

FilmFodder's Mac Slocum was critical of Shannon, calling her "a whiny bitch with a mile-wide selfish streak."[9] Whitney Pastorek for Entertainment Weekly was similarly negative, referring to her previous criticism of the developing relationship between Shannon and Sayid, when she questioned: "How the hell are they going to justify the brilliant former Iraqi intelligence officer's attraction to Vapid Blond Chick?"[10] Of "Hearts and Minds", she wrote that the duplicitous presentation of Boone's visions caused her to distrust the show.[11]

Therese Odell of the Houston Chronicle reviewed the episode twice, once in September 2007, then again following a repeat viewing in July 2009. She called it "profoundly weird",[12] and described it as a "transition episode", noting that on her original viewing she found it irritating, eager for the story to advance, but upon re-watching it enjoyed it more, praising the "lovely exploration of Boone's character".[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lost on Location - Hearts and Minds". Lost: The Complete First Season, Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Featurette, disc 7. Released on September 6, 2005.
  2. ^ Cuse, Carlton & Grace, Maggie & Grillo-Marxuach, Javier & Somerhalder, Ian, "Hearts and Minds". Lost: The Complete First Season, Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Audio commentary, disc 4. Released on September 6, 2005.
  3. ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. January 19, 2005. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  4. ^ "Australian Television Ratings - Week 21 Monday, 23 May, 2005" (PDF). Consolidated Media Holdings. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  5. ^ "Weekly Top 30 Programmes - w/e 23 Oct 2005". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  6. ^ Conlan, Tara (October 20, 2005). "Jamie serves up ratings feast". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  7. ^ a b c Carabott, Chris (September 5, 2008). "Lost Flashback: "Hearts and Minds" Review". IGN. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
  8. ^ MacEachern, Daniel (January 17, 2005). "Pure Guava". Television Without Pity. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
  9. ^ Slocum, Mac (January 13, 2005). "Key Points from "Hearts and Minds"". FilmFodder. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
  10. ^ Pastorek, Whitney (January 6, 2005). "The Plane Truth". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
  11. ^ Pastorek, Whitney (January 13, 2005). "Brother in Arms". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
  12. ^ Odell, Therese (July 28, 2009). "Lost Rewatch: "Hearts and Minds"". Houston Chronicle. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  13. ^ Odell, Therese (September 26, 2007). "Keeping it in the Family on Lost". Houston Chronicle. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved 28 February 2010.

Category:Lost (TV series) episodes Category:2005 television episodes

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