LOST 03/28/07 "Exposé"

[John Crichton]

I had fun watching it. Reminded me of the B5 ep where they focused on the grunts and the people you never get to see. Very good for a mid-season episode.

 

[Silver Moon]

I didn't like how Nikki and Paolo were shoehorned into the ongoing plot. Meeting Boone and Shannon in the airport. Running around on the beach after the crash. Finding the hatch and the drug plane first. It felt forced and then they get buried alive. What was the point of bringing them in just to kill them a few episodes later? I don't remember the actors getting caught DWI. :\

A lot of the scenes actually weren't reshot - those two actors have been around since early in the first season as extras. This week's was actually Nikki's 16th episode and Paolo's 14th episode of Lost.

 

[Taelorn76]

A lot of the scenes actually weren't reshot - those two actors have been around since early in the first season as extras. This week's was actually Nikki's 16th episode and Paolo's 14th episode of Lost.

So they used cutting room footage?

 

[Felon]

I didn't like how Nikki and Paolo were shoehorned into the ongoing plot. Meeting Boone and Shannon in the airport. Running around on the beach after the crash. Finding the hatch and the drug plane first. It felt forced and then they get buried alive. What was the point of bringing them in just to kill them a few episodes later? I don't remember the actors getting caught DWI. :\

Well, obviously the point was to get viewers to sit around overanalyzing what "the point" of the episode was rather than simply being entertained.

As to "shoehorning" them into ongoing events, let's think about that for a second. We know there are more crash survivors than just the dozen or so named characters that we see. If other characters are brought forth from the background, they kind of have to be retconned into the events that have transpired.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I didn't like how Nikki and Paolo were shoehorned into the ongoing plot. Meeting Boone and Shannon in the airport.

They were on the flight. Everyone was in the airport at some point.

Running around on the beach after the crash.

I'm not sure what the alternative here would be.

What was the point of bringing them in just to kill them a few episodes later? I don't remember the actors getting caught DWI. :\

What was the point of Alfred Hitchcock Presents? This was just a one-off fun episode. We also get resolution on the fake Others attack on Sun and an Other walkie talkie gets in the hands of the castaways.

 

[Fast Learner]

We also learn that just as the background Lostaways don't know a bunch of stuff that's going on with the main characters, so too do the mains not know what's going on with the background characters. In big, important ways. And similarly, the background characters have agendas all their own, and that such agendas might actually matter.

 

[Steve Jung]

A lot of the scenes actually weren't reshot - those two actors have been around since early in the first season as extras. This week's was actually Nikki's 16th episode and Paolo's 14th episode of Lost.

Hmm. I had no idea the characters have been around that long. Interesting. I have to give the producers more credit then.

...If other characters are brought forth from the background, they kind of have to be retconned into the events that have transpired.

I know, but it seemed heavy-handed in this case.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I didn't like how Nikki and Paolo were shoehorned into the ongoing plot.

I would have rather spent the time with Rose and Bernard. Have they appeared at all in this season?

 

[LightPhoenix]

A lot of the scenes actually weren't reshot - those two actors have been around since early in the first season as extras. This week's was actually Nikki's 16th episode and Paolo's 14th episode of Lost.

That's actually not at all true. Both Rodrigo Santoro and Kiele Sanchez have only been in the third season. Any scenes in Expose that weren't reshot, they were digitally added in.

Furthermore, while they are credited for fourteen episodes each (the number of episodes this season), that doesn't mean they've even appeared in all of those - since they were brought on as regular cast, they get billing even if they're not in the episode.

 

[dravot]

I enjoyed it a lot. It was fun to re-visit some of the other scenes from a different point of view, and the Night Gallery type ending was fun too.

Plus, we did get some traction in the storylines, as mentioned above.