Home Again
- by Jemain Clement, directed by Yana Gorskaya
- TV Episode
- Families
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Home Again” by Jemain Clement, directed by Yana Gorskaya, from Time Bandits, s01e08 (Apple TV+, 14 August 2024).
Hooray! At last they think they’re headed home, but Widget’s reading of The Map is a few decades off.
—Michael Main
Kevin: But what if we do something wrong and stop ourselves from existing?
Saphron: If we stop ourselves from existing, then we won’t exist to stop ourselves from existing. That means we’ll exist, won’t we? Think about it.![]()
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- Time Periods
- Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic)
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: When Kevin’s parents were kids: 1996
- Timeline Models
- Multiple Naive Timelines: Kevin’s discovery that they can change things gives him hope that he can save his parents.
- Outside of Time: The realm of Pure Evil are described as “The Time of Legends” in this episode, so maybe Evil and Supreme don’t live outside of time after all.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Language Difficulties: the time helmet, although it’s not needed in this episode
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: Kevin and Saffron meet their parents in 1996.
- Save Your Family!: Kevin and Saffron’s parents live!
- Selves-Visitation: The elder bandits talk with their older/younger selves through a portal.
- Sent to Wrong Time!: They land in 1996 instead of 2024.
- Fictional Tags
- Angels and Demons: Fianna
- Deities: Pure Evil appears, but not The Supreme Being.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Home Again” by Jemain Clement, directed by Yana Gorskaya, from Time Bandits, s01e08 (Apple TV+, 14 August 2024).Terry Gilliam (characters)Michael Palin (characters)
Previous Works
based in part on characters from Time Bandits (1981)