Lost — EXPOSÉ
It’s a Lost All-Star Extravaganza!!
Well, that was odd. The whole episode had absolutely nothing to do with anything that has happened before (perhaps tangentially), and yet… I kind of liked it. Honestly, I do not mind one-off episodes. Especially on network TV where the seasons are way too long to always build off the main narrative.
Did the episode justify the earlier introduction of the dreaded Nikki and Paulo? I think so. Really, they were only in a few episodes. People have been talking as if the two were in every frame. A little set-up never hurt anyone (except for the subjects of political assassinations).
The episode itself kind of played like a low-stakes Memento, where the mystery is being solved (by us) from two directions simultaneously. Either that or it could be called Hurley P.I.
What was most fun was how those two characters were inserted into two seasons worth of classic Lost moments as if they were a pair of J.Crew Zeligs — in the process allowing us to get reaquainted with Mr. Artz (dude, you got some Artz on you), Boone and Shannon, as well as that always fantastic wreckage scene that they can revisit as much as they’d like as far as I’m concerned.
That, and the opening sequence. Best opening ever? (Likely) Billy Dee, Billy Dee, Billy Dee! I’d tune in to any series about a pair a crime-fighting strippers — any series.
Oh, and how brutal was that ending?
March 30th, 2007 at 12:05 am
I thought the ending was very “Tales From the Crypt”.
March 30th, 2007 at 1:49 am
A new genre: “Jungle noir”. Paolo and Nikki were Walter Neff and Phyllis Diedrichsen reborn.
Like Ryan, I was expecting the Cryptkeeper. Or Hitchcock.
Now that the spiders have been introduced, maybe someday they can come into play again. Only this time, the castaways realize what they do… and then they remember what happened to Nikki and Paolo.
Just a simple “uh oh” from Hurley would be great.