LOST 03/28/07 "Exposé"

[The Grumpy Celt]

LOST 03/28/07 "Exposé"

Hurley begins to suspect that Sawyer might be involved in a mystery surrounding two fellow survivors, and Sun learns the truth about her kidnapping attempt by the Others. Flashbacks follow Nikki and Paulo (Kiele Sanchez, Rodrigo Santoro). Boone: Ian Somerhalder. Shannon: Maggie Grace. Mr. LaShade: Billy Dee Williams.

As for personal observations, I'm just going to say I liked this episode the first time, when it was a Tales from the Crypt story.

 

[Jamdin]

As for personal observations, I'm just going to say I liked this episode the first time, when it was a Tales from the Crypt story.

My thoughts exactly

 

[Banshee16]

Any bets on whether or not Nikki and Paolo will get out before they suffocate? It seems like Nikki was waking up.

If not....talk about a horrible way to die. Kind of a waste....just start learning about the characters, and they both kick it..

Banshee

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I would be surprised if we see them again. The entire episode was a perfect Tales from the Crypt type of story, and having either of them escape would cut the impact. That said, this type of episode fits in poorly with LOST and in particular it feels like a cheat, a cheep trick, to get to know these characters over a dozen or so episodes just to have it go down this way. I don't hate the episode, but this is the first time the show has disappointed me.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I'd feel the same as you The Grumpy Celt, if we had really gotten to know these characters in the first place, which we didn't. At least the tailies had a whole season, and Arzt had shock value. Sure, being buried alive is creepy, but I found myself really not caring.

It was nicely self-contained, for the most part, and I thought, at least with Paolo, he had a good reason for not revealing the Pearl station. Sun smacking Sawyer was great, but otherwise this was a pretty boring episode.

Arzt should have become a regular.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...if we had really gotten to know these characters in the first place...

I was not disappointed 'cause these two died. I was disappointed 'cause it seems like the show itself was slumming to deliver an episode like this. And it spent time on these characters to pull this stunt, time that would have been better spent on other characters, like sun, Kim, Hurley and so on.

 

[TwistedBishop]

Sun smacking Sawyer was great, but otherwise this was a pretty boring episode.

I feel the exact opposite way. I loved the episode from start to finish, including the murderers getting their just deserts instead of becoming regular characters. Even with the Tales from the Crypt atmosphere, I'd say it was truer to the spirit of Lost than any episode in a long time.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Any bets on whether or not Nikki and Paolo will get out before they suffocate? It seems like Nikki was waking up.

If not....talk about a horrible way to die. Kind of a waste....just start learning about the characters, and they both kick it..

Yeah, I was kind of underwhelmed the entire episode. After all the little inclusions of the characters this season, I was expecting more.

That said, someone else pointed out on another board the parallels to their gruesome end and the beginning of the story, where Nikki's character is killed. She says "the guest star always dies" (foreshadowing), and he points out that, "we can always bring you back next season."

So they did kind of leave themselves a possible out if they want (Locke's "nothing stays buried on this island" comment, Vincent sniffing around the still alive bodies).

There were some nice moments, and the play-within-a-play elements of the Expose tv show were clever (especially in retrospect), but I just didn't really care about these characters, and was hoping for something more than we got. Plus I find the whole idea of the Losties committing involuntary manslaughter to be really disturbing and more cruel minded than the show I enjoy watching tends to be.

I might have felt a little bit different if this episode had been placed somewhere else in the season, rather than at the end, though. I think it just sort of threw the pacing off. I don't mind a stand alone, not really related to anything else episode, but something just seems off here. (Had the same problem with The Girl In Question during Angel Season 5- would have been a fun episode on its own, but coming right in the middle of a couple of dark episodes, it really didn't fit with the characters as they existed at that point in the chronology.)

 

[Hand of Evil]

I was so so on this one, I enjoyed the characters, Nikki was HOT and the story line. The group is at least talking and they tied a god bit together.

 

[Taelorn76]

Like others here I liked the episode as a stand alone, but I was not to thrilled with it as part of the season.

I mean they just introduced these two at the start of the season, they were not in more than half a dozen episodes and now they are gone. Everything they did on the island was neatly tied up. The only loose end I could think of is now the Lostaways have one of the others walkie talkies. Other than that no loose ends. No one knows they had previously found the Pearl hatch, or the plane that Boone died in, any of that.

One other thing, you would think that if Artz have found that spider he would have warned all the other survivors about it. I find it slightly odd that no one else has come across this species in the past 90 days.