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My stupid complaint: after 80+ days on an island, wouldn't everybody have dirt under their fingernails?

Anyway, Locke's speech to Paulo about how stuff buried on the beach tends to wash up seems like foreshadowing their return. I'm not sure I like that, but if we went through the clunky introductions of these characters with no emotional attachment to them just to kill them off, that would seem really pointless.

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What a terrible episode, had to be the worst yet this season.

And a wet bitch fight next week... joy....

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Vincent probably knew they weren't dead.
Throughout the episode, I doubted it as well (with all the shots of their 'dead' faces and eyes.)

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i loved this episode, seriously, i was giggling the whole time in much the same fashion as i did while watching the Chrismukkah episode this year on The OC. i love it when shows stray from their formula and try something new. this episode was 'lost', but it was also Forrest Gump, CSI, The Twilight Zone and best of all, a HUGE wink to the audience, as if to say "yes, we can hear you loud and clear!" when proclaimed Nikki was dead and Swayer replied with confused "who the hell is Nikki," i just about lost it because that has been my idea of Nikki and Paulo since they were introduced, Nikki and Paulo-who? I loved it, i loved seeing Boone and Shannon, and Artz, and OLD Locke! the Locke who walked around creepily dispensing wisdom to those who would listen. GREAT! JUST GREAT!

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question: so Ben got caught on purpose?! thats crazy and possibly genius.

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My take on Vincent pulling off the blanket was that he alone could discern that Nikki and Paulo were still alive.

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I *LOVED* this episode! It was more enjoyable for a long-time viewer (like me) to watch than anything else this season, including Hurley's Joy Ride.

The shout-outs to fans were nice... Debating what Nikki said, Sawyer constantly getting mad because he had no clue who these people were, Hurley at the funeral saying that they didn't actually know them well at all... And even the bit where Hurley and Sawyer were debating whether Eko's warning was given in the singular or the plural. I'm not sure we've seen so many message-board shout-outs in one viewing!

The beginning scene with "Expose" seemed to me like a bit of a tip of the hat to JJ's "Alias". Except, Sydney Bristow should have yelled "Frazzle Dazzle!" before attacking the bad guys.

I'm curious as to what Smokey the Island Monster was doing... We (now) know that the Medusa spider can attract other spiders in droves. BUT... We heard Smokey's rattling right around the time the spider swarm arrived. Was it biological or was it the monster?

How bad was the character of Paulo? Not even NIKKI liked him. How sad!

I will say that after this episode, I liked the two new characters MORE than I did. I still don't see where they fit in the Lost puzzle, but, it was still a fun, fun episode.

Back to "Expose"... The mysterious bad guy wasn't revealed until the fourth season, and it was someone that they never would have suspected. Could this have been some foreshadowing on the part of the writers? Are they telling us that we already know who Jacob is?

How fun was it to see Artz again? It's a good thing we've only gotten him in extremely small doses, because he's SOOO rotten annoying, but such a fun character. It was nice to see Boone, Shannon and Ethan again, too. (Well, maybe not Shannon, although that girl can SCREAM!)

Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. It was fun, it was nostolgic and they BURIED THEM ALIVE. How amazing of an ending was that? It was so clever, so poetic. This show is *sometimes* too Shakesperian for it's own good.

Next week: Catfight! In the rain and mud! How convenient!

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God, I frakking love Arzt. I always forget how much I loved Arzt. He should have been made a regular and blown up, I dunno, some other red shirt.

I really enjoyed this episode, and even though I kinda figured out how the end would play, it still totally creeped me out.

Also, I liked how they reversed their formula - instead of beginning with someone's eye opening and ending with them running through the jungle in panic, it started on the panicked jungle running and ended on the open eyes.

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Best part of this episode: "Who's Nikki?"

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Here my theory on why Charlie told Sun about what he did to her:
http://arrogantics.com/2007/03/29/lost-season-3-episode-14-expose-review/#more-165
Skip to the second paragraph. Basically, I think they wanted to clear up his plot lines so they can kill him off.

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Here why I think Charlie told Sun what he did to her:
http://arrogantics.com/2007/03/29/lost-season-3-episode-14-expose-review/
Skip to the second paragraph. Basically, I think they were finishing up Charlie's plot lines so they can kill him off.

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Wasn't Locke watching an episode of Exposé last week when the kid came to his apartment to ask about his dad?

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A really enjoyable episode yet somewhat annoying as it took us on yet another tangent. I wonder how many weeks we'll have to wait to see Locke's father again. Will next week be completely in the mud?

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I was wondering what the point of these characters were, especially with the plethora of new characters that could have kept the story going fine (Desmond, Ben, Juliet to name a few). If they stay dead, I think, in the end, their roles were pointless and a waste of time.

Re-creating the Pilot sequence was awkward, like re-enacting Jim and Pam's kissing scene at the beginning of Season 3 in The Office. However, I loved seeing Boone again - he's the character I miss most.

And could the writers not think of anything more interesting than another con backstory? I mean, with Locke's dad and Sawyer, not to mention Kate, they are other occupations in the world.

I will say though, Kiele Sanchez has a fantastic body. I can't believe she's 37.

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They killed off Poochie in a more satisfying way.

All this episode did was serve to prove how unnecessary these characters were. They die and the deaths in no way move the arc of the story forward. Their absence has no impact on the greater story. The creation of the characters was silly in the first place, and spending an hour fleshing them out only to kill them off, their story still isolated from the main arc, was not "necessary" it was just plain stupid.

Even outside the context of Lost, this wasn't a good hour of TV. It was cliched and lazy and carried very little to raise it above any of 1000 other mediocre hours of TV.

And it's too bad since it seemed Lost was getting its legs back in the last few episodes.

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1. Hopefully this episode will shut up the people who claim that "Desmond changed the past and Paulo and Nikki replaced Rose and Bernard" since we saw Boone trying to help Rose.

2. Really wondering what happend to this scene:
http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-promos/sea3/expos/normal_expos40.jpg
http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-promos/sea3/expos/normal_expos41.jpg
It is obvious it takes place during the hatch explosion. Wondering what was going on with them then.

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I did like this episode, and I loved how they mixed in the little parts of the opening minutes/hours/days of the show. Boone asking for pens, Arzt running by when Boone had taken the water, the reference to the monster in the jungle on the first night, Jack's 'live together, die alone ' speech, which Nikki and Paulo were conveniently off camera for in the original... It's the little things that make this show so great.

I do have some gripes though. I really think no matter how self-centered and how singular your goals are, you're going to stop for 10 seconds and wonder why there's a fucking hatch built into the ground on a seemingly deserted tropical island. Call me crazy.

And the build-up to this episode promised a few things that I don't think it really delivered on.

Solving a big part of the mythology? Would that be Ben and Juliet in the Pearl discussing the plan for Jack? We already know Ben is a manipulator, no shocker there, so I guess the big reveal is they know how about the Pearl and how to get there? And what was the point of them being there, did Juliet really just have to see what Jack looked like. They could have had that discussion in Juliet's kitchen while baking cookies.

And how are Nikki and Paulo 'iconic' characters now, as promised by Darlton before the episode. Because they were the first to find the Pearl and Yemi's plane, or hearing the Other's plan for Jack, Kate and Sawyer and doing nothing about it.

I'm glad they're gone, they never should have been there in the first place, but everything in this ep felt so rushed and jumbled together, like they were trying to involve Nikki and Paulo in all these things that just didn't fit.

Although I have to say I laughed out loud when Nikki said "You know what happens to extras." And I also have to give credit to the writers for not dragging out the deaths of the two for the whole episode. There they were, both dead, before the first commercial break. Of course they weren't really dead, but we didn't know that till the end.

All in all, not too much more revealed, but still a good episode, as we saw the end of Nikki and Paulo, HOORAY!

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I was a little wary of this episode at the beginning. As was pointed out, the whole Forest Gump thing felt a little forced at first. But by the end I loved it. Very Hitchcockian.

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Nick, Kiele Sanchez is a hottie. But she's only 29.

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