Lost *spoilers*

Well, I am glad of one thing - that my spoiler contact was not 100% correct.

Man, getting buried alive is my biggest fear. Needless to say I was tripped out from last night's episode.

Nikki & Paulo were supposssed to make up for Kate & Jack and what not being gone with the Others. But everyone hated the characters so much the producers needed to do something about it. So they buried them alive. DAMN! Harsh!!!!

The episode looked a little rushed to me.
 
The only redeeming thing about the episode was that NIkki was hot. If I hadn't gotten a decent rack out of it, I'd have been really pissed I didn't watch South Park live.
 
Ultimate Houde said:
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At the begining Nikki is frantically burring something and runs out the woods where Hurley and Sawyer where playing ping pong. She collapses and says "Pablo lies" Hurley states she's dead. The episode revolves around them trying to figure out what happens, Pablo is found dead as well. Some start to suspect Sawyer bescause he was argueing with Nikki earlier. And it is revealed that Charlie and Saywer blindfold the asian chick (I forget her name) to steal the guns.

Than there's a flash back to Nikki acting in a tv with Billy Dee Williams. She has shown relations with the director. Pablo and her were working to gether to kill him than rob him. Then we cut to the plane crash Nikki ask Pablo where there bag is with the mysterious loot they stole in it. During their search for it they come across the second hatch but Nikki is more concerns with the bag. She asks high school professor who tells her about a spider whose bite can paralize, to help figure where her bag may have fallen. Pablo finds it in a lake where there are two dead bodies (I'm not sure if this was seen in an earlier episode), but hides the fact that he found it from her.

Pablo tries to bury it on the beach but Locke tells him that nothing stays burried because when the tides comes in during the winter it will be uncovered. He then goes to the Pearl and hides it in the bathroom when Ben and Juliet enter talking about their plans, they dont see him. Later when Nikki decides to go with Locke and Sayid Pablo heads to the bathroom at the station and puts the little balck bag in his pants (remember him flushing it earlier in the season). Nikki finds out that he has it and uses the spider mentioned earlier to paralyze him. But as mention by the teacher the female spider has strong pheramones that causes all the male to flock to the location and she gets bitten. She then quickly burries the bag and runs. Saywer finds the bag and it turns out its full of diamonds. At the end they start burring the two with the diamonds and as the pile on dirt the two starts to come out of the paralysis but its too late and their both buried alive.
 
At the end we find out that she says "paralyzed", though. I thought that was a real cool part of the episode. Hurley thought we heard Nikki say "Paulo lies" when, all along, she was trying to tell him she wasn't actually dead or going to die.
 
Planet-man said:
I totally agree with this, and I usually love it when they have interaction for the "background" Lostaways.

The problem with Nikki and Paulo was that they walk on and they're just so obviously wannabe new-characters that it was obnoxious. They both look like models and were just so phony.

What I want is more of characters who are just regular people, like the whiny hypochondriac guy or Steve, or some of the women we don't see much of. Work THEM into the show, not magazine ad personalities like Nikki and Paulo. That's why Arzdt worked so well, and I'm sad that he's gone and his death is just a running joke.
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Perfectly summed up. I think that encapsulated exactly why people weren't receptive to Nikki and Paulo.
 
I enjoyed parts of it. The central conceit was like an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. That opening scene was awesome. Billy Dee Williams. "Razzle Dazzle!" I got the feeling Vaughan had something to do with that scene, and I'm not exactly sure why.

The flashbacks planting them in old scenes was kind of lame, but it was cool to see Gale actually come out and say, "Yeah. I'm a manipulative prick, and I have no problem with that." The dude is truly evil.
 
Just to add, I think this episode also shows Vincent's uncanny senses. I believe Vincent knew that Nikki and Paulo were alive, and that's why he pulled off the sheet in one scene.
 
Now that it comes up, I do think Vaughan had his hand in on this eisode... It just rings of something that Vaughan would come up with, the whole burial alive thing. I like that.
 
Goodwill said:
Now that it comes up, I do think Vaughan had his hand in on this eisode... It just rings of something that Vaughan would come up with, the whole burial alive thing. I like that.
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Nope. BKV's only co-wrote an episode this season, which will be coming up shortly.
 
I think, looking at the episode, that they could have explained a great deal just by having Nikki and Paulo interact with more people on 815 that we might not have heard from yet... Anyway, it was good to see Ethan, Arzt, and the rest of those long forgotten lost from the beach (Boone, Shannon).
 
DIrishB said:
Perfectly summed up. I think that encapsulated exactly why people weren't receptive to Nikki and Paulo.
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I strongly believe that Sawyer repeatedly yelling 'Who the hell are you?!' at Nikki was the writer's self-deprecating way of echoing the fan reactions about the two.

I like how the 'things don't stay buried for long' theme showed throughout the episode. Bringing back four dead characters in the flashback (noting that only Dr. Arzt actually contributed to the plot and the others were strictly fan service), the storyline itself (Nikki and Paulo digging up something about their past) and the ultimate irony that Nikki and Paulo are the ones who will stay buried was great.

Is just too bad that they got rid of Rodrigo Santoro after he got some recognition from being Xerxes in 300, oh well.
 
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There was potential for both characters after last episode, but it was fun to have what we wanted to happen happen, you know?

Anyway, I've been considering what the end of the season will be like.

For one thing, I'm most interested (right now, anyway) about Ben. His character is most likely the key to understanding the island. He's been on the island his entire life, predating even DHARMA and their endeavors. My theory is that he is the child of a couple looking to develop the island into a place without political and cultural boundaries. He was raised to understand the island only; although he knew that there was an entire world out there, his parents let him know that the island was the future. When DHARMA landed it would have compromised his and his parents dream to live their and raise a new civilization, if it hadn't brought so many innovative things along that only helped them... As long as they could consider all of that stuff their own. All this time, he wanted Locke to stop pushing the button so that everyone that had been brought to the island would stay and help with his plan to populate the island into becoming that surpasses the world's extinction...

Another person I want to hear more about is Desmond. Why did the Others let him and Kelvin operate the Swan Station if all Ben wanted to do was let the button go off? Also, now that we know there is a difference between what the failsafe would do and what the button not being pushed would mean, what does this make him? Yes, he's as much of a castaway as the Lostaways, but he's been on the island a bit longer and could have possibly seen the place develop.

Lastly, I want Michael to come back at the end of this season... To tell us there is nothing left of the world but the island.
 
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