[US/IRL] 3X14 - "Exposé" [** SPOILERS WITHIN **]

basquille wrote:

But does anyone actually care?

Absolutely not, just little things I've picked up on and I suppose could go down as little inconsistencies in the show. Now for more serious matters...

I gave this episode a 5, blatant filler episodes rarely get more than a 6 with me, but this rated fairly highly among fillers, my lowest rating ever was for "...In Translation", that got a 2 from me, it was muck.

It was good to see the different viewpoints on the beach, it went right back to Pilot I, interesting to see things from the viewpoint of someone other than Jack for a change. Nikki & Paulo's story was fairly cool, but probably not worthy of more than one episode's attention.

Also, great episode for the guys
Kiele Sanchez poledancing in a bikini (and flashing her director afterwards) PLUS we saw her on her back for most of the episode...
Maggie Grace appears once again (even if she's screaming like a spoilt brat amidst the wreckage of a crashed passenger jet)

A welcome change from the (one) eye candy of recent episodes... more Mikhail Bakunin anyone?

basquille wrote:

Enjoyable and fun episode.. and a fanastic response to the criticism that the producers and creators recieved on casting Nikki and Paulo in this season. Kudos to Damon, Carlton etc.

Was full of tongue-in-cheek dialogue.. some obvious: Nikki's comment after her death in the movie ("i'm just a guest star.. we all know what happens to guest stars!"), Sawyer's "Who the hell's Nikki?". And some not so obvious: the "he's been called the Wolfgang Puck of Brazil" about Paulo's cooking - thought this may a nod to the numerous tabloids pointing out that Rodrigo Santoro (who played Paolo) was "the Brazilian Tom Cruise" last Summer when he was cast. Paulo and Nikki saying "promise we'll never end up like them" about Boone and Shannon.

God, that pissed me off! The whole episode was one big nod to all those who dislike Nikki/Paulo.

"Hey guys, you know they way you all think Nikki and Paulo are ****e characters, well we do too! Isn't it great the way Sawyer keeps on asking who they are. We are so cool and funny. And remember the way you went and called Paulo Take A **** Guy! Well we went and added a plot line which makes that scene really relevant! How clever are we?"

I really hope they aren't dead even though I'm not a big fan of either character. Throughout the episode I was pretty disgusted at how the writers/producers decided to alter their vision just to suit the viewers. Have a bit of pride in your work instead of writing to please the fans! So who do we want gone next! Network TV is turning into interactive story telling. They should just go ahead and take phone calls at the end of each episode!

"What happens next, you decide?"

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upmeath wrote:

Maybe I'm over-examining here, but I have two (albeit tongue-in-cheek) questions arising from this episode...
(i) who fed the female Medusa spider in its jar for the last 40/50 days since Arzt blew up? ("That's not the one Arzt caught, Nikki went out with a glass jar and caught her own female Medusa spider" will not suffice for an answer)
(ii) where did the Losties ever get that shovel they use to dig graves and bury people with? It didn't come out of the Swan anyway because they had it long before then for the several people who died in the first season. Did some pleb decide to bring a shovel from Sydney to LA incase they didn't have shovels in America? Or did Ethan bring it with him from the Barracks as part of his decoy "luggage"?

LOL, i know what you mean mate. But we can't think like that with LOST because there is 100's of small things like that so far in the show that could be questioned. I supose we just have to accept them.

L31mr0d wrote:

Oh and did you notice, if nikki hadn't stopped to bury the diamonds, they'd both still be alive?

How do you mean?

The Gnome wrote:

She'd have reached the beach sooner and would have had more time to explain what was wrong.

Ah yeah, i misread his comment. Yeah 8 million dollars in diamonds caused their deaths .

1) - (from fuselage)
Paulo made an interesting remark (57 days ago) along the lines of "we should have gone to Ethan, he would have helped."

By Sledgeweb's timeline, Ethan took Claire and Charlie on day 17, and Charlie killed him on day 29.

On day 23, how could anyone not have known about Ethan? He almost killed Charlie and had stolen the only pregnant girl on the island...how could this be a secret?

2) How did Paulo get out of the hatch, considering Ben and Juliet almost certainly lock it behind them.

3)Did vincent know Piki were still alive?

4)Why did Sawyer give up the diamonds?

5)Jack s live together die alone dialogue leaves out the part where he mentions a woman dying, intentional or edited.

6) There is a rattling sound just before nikki gets bitten. The smoke monster made the same rattling sound before killing eko. Is smokey the spider?

jor el wrote:

I was thinking that if she had stayed where she was then she would have woken up 8 hours later and probably nobody would have come across them in that time. Running to the beach got her killed.

or they would of continued to get stung by the spiders and stayed paralyzed until they died of thirst or something.

jor el wrote:

stevejazzx:
1) - Ethan, etc.
Don't know about that one, didn't notice Paulo mentioning going to Ethan. Perhaps he thought that Ethan would help them for a cut in the diamonds maybe?

Paulo mentioned going to Ethan when they where looking for the bag and Paulo thought Ethan would know better about the island than Artz would.

jor el wrote:

2) How did Paulo get out of the hatch, considering Ben and Juliet almost certainly lock it behind them.
Don't think the hatch door had a lock on it on the outside. Just two steel doors closed over and covered in dirt so as th hide them.

You can clearly see them prying open the latchs in the hatch when they first find it.

LFCFan wrote:

It is afterall supposed to run for 7 seasons so we can't expect fast plot development.

I don't think they were ever serious about it going for 7 seasons. They've said several times that they don't want the show to go on too long, like the X-Files did, and that they'd quit before that happens. About 5 seasons (or a little less) seems to be the current plan. The show's serialized nature means it's going to have a hard time holding on to a mainstream audience for much longer than that.

Also I think there's a lot of answers coming at the end of this season. Much of the mystery of the Others should be resolved and plenty more details about Dharma. I even think we may find out the true purpose of the "monster". The bigger mystery of the island itself we probably take precedence next season.

Overall I'm very happy with how the show is progressing. I think a lot of people watched Season 1 on dvd, all at once over a short time, and now they get very frustrated having to wait weeks to get answers, hence all the crys of "filler", "no plot development", etc. I would suggest some people might try letting a few episodes build up before watching them, this is what I did last season and I found it much more satisfying. I've been far too much caught up with this season to wait though.

Also in season 1 there was the mystery of the main characters which is of course long gone now. However the fans have become so hostile to killing off/introducing new characters that the writers are in a no-win situation.

Anima asked how come ben and juliette never noticed the hatch opened.

when they were climbing down the ladder and the camera is on paulo, you can hear ben saying to juliette:

ben: "who left this open?"
juliette: "*someone's name* was down here a couple of days ago".
ben: "have them cover it up with the plane".

it's little things like this that i enjoy so much about this show.

stevejazzx wrote:

2) How did Paulo get out of the hatch, considering Ben and Juliet almost certainly lock it behind them.

Given that there was once two people stationed in the Pearl it must surely be possible to open/unlock the hatch from inside. I think we might also assume there's another entrance into the Pearl, perhaps via underground tunnels or just another door like the Swan had. Perhaps this is how Ben and Juilet got in. Otherwise it would be a lot of trouble for the Others to have to shift that plane out of the way every time they wanted to go down there. It was definitely being used very recently when Locke and Ecko found it.

logik wrote:

Yeah 8 million dollars in diamonds caused their deaths .

Rumour has it Lindelof and Cuse wanted to call this episode "Blood Diamond", but that name was already taken, so they had to settle for "Exposé" instead... :rolleyes:

Cremo wrote:

...you can hear ben saying to juliette:

ben: "who left this open?"
juliette: "*someone's name* was down here a couple of days ago".
ben: "have them cover it up with the plane".

it's little things like this that i enjoy so much about this show.

It's this that makes me think that it's possible that the plane got a helping shove when Boone was inside it...