Expose

[WeAreTheBorg]

Can someone tell me what the point of this episode was? Why they spent several episodes setting these characters up? Why they brought back Boone and Shannon for just cameos that didn't add anything?

I thought for sure it must lead somewhere or mean something but nope...

One of Lost's worst missteps. It was pointless and the ending was just sick for no reason.

Best part was realizing the guy was the same actor who played Xerxes in 300.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The point was the get rid of the terrible mistakes known as Paulo and Nikki. They were created in the attempt to explore more of the Losties, but instead they were mostly hated because their sudden involvement (and Nikki's mere role of pointing out the obvious) felt forced. The writers realized their mistake killed them off in a wonderful way (in my mind, at least).

 

[Lindley]

It's actually a hilarious episode once you look at it the right way.

"I'm just a guest star, and we all know what happens to guest stars."
(Nikki keels over two seconds later in the teaser)

(After the Shannon/Boone cameo)
"Promise me we'll never end up like them!"

The Artz and Ethan cameos.....bring dead characters back just for the heck of doing so, after the "We could always bring you back next season" line at the start.

Poking fun at their own writing by finding excuses for these two not to explore the Pearl or the drug plane before our guys, even though they stumbled onto them first. In fact I'm fairly sure it was the most self-referential episode they've done.

They just went completely over-the-top in killing those two off. It was awesome.

Plus there was the random Billy Dee Williams (as himself) cameo.

 

[WeAreTheBorg]

Okay but wait a minute... it seemed like Nikki and Paulo were created for the sole reason of this episode, not that this episode was created to end them. Remember Paulo in the bathroom in the Pearl, and that turned out to be set up for the diamond thing. That was their first episode, wasn't it? So it seems to me that their entire existence was FOR this episode.

As for all the self referencing... gotta admit I didn't really notice. I was too busy wondering where all this stuff was going and what it had to do with anything. And then at the end it was like "nope".

The way they died I guess is more fun in a sort of Tarantino-esque way if you look at the episode in a whimsical lens.

 

[Agent Richard07]

They had long-term plans for Nikki and Paulo, but the fan backlash made the producers decide to just kill them off. They weren't set up for this episode, it was just their big sendoff once the decision was made to get rid of them.

 

[beneldon]

I never really understood or cared about the backlash over N and P.
That said, I thought Expose was a fitting way to course correct the show.
The idea of the spiders showing up at just the right time wasn't nearly as incredible as anything else the Narrative has had me to suspend my disbelief and by the end of the show I managed to be equally satisfied and horrified at the same time.

Uhh! Those eyes opening just long enough to see the dirt cover them up at the bottom of the grave! "Haha! take that you crappy-assed, redeemingless, piece of... mean... selfish...

...

Oh God!

 

[Lindley]

The idea of the spiders showing up at just the right time wasn't nearly as incredible as anything else the Narrative has had me to suspend my disbelief

Are you referring to the existence of these spiders being revealed here, or to the way they swarmed N after she let one loose on P?

Artz explained that the one he had was a female, and that her pheromones could bring the males swarming.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I still think "LaShade is the cobra!?" is a clue to something.

 

[Starbreaker]

This episode is hilarious even though it does break up the flow a little bit. I wish they had played it as straight comedy all the way through instead of forcing the Sun/Sawyer/Charlie bit in.

 

[Mr Light]

I didn't like the characters but I thought "Expose" was very funny and a well done episode. I liked how the whole thing was a self-parody of the series. And pretty frickin' hilarious the way they just got killed off like that.

 

[McCoy]

JJ loves his fans.

 

[sidious618]

I thought this episode was awesome. The scenes with Nikki stripping and in a bikini were fantastic, too.

 

[Starbreaker]

JJ loves his fans.

Lindelof & Cuse admitted at Comicon that JJ hasn't had any involvement with the series since season 1.

 

[Hober Mallow]

WeAreTheBorg,

The characters probably seemed more pointless to you and I, who watched the series at ludicrous speed on DVD. Whereas other fans had months of Nikky and Paolo, I first met them in the morning and they were dead by the afternoon.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Sawyer summed up this episode best: "Who the hell is Nikki?"

 

[The Evil Dead]

I'm pro-Expose, I think it's a very fun episode. They introduced some crummy new characters, realized it quickly and decided to kill 'em off and managed to make a great episode in the process.

 

[Seven of Five]

I loved Expose, it was very funny. I thought that Paulo and Nikki's insertion into past events was nicely done, and the reappearance of dead characters was inspired. It just about made up for their previously odd introduction.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

^^ I think even if the episode was about two other characters who hadn't been seen at all before (not even given the stilted introduction that N&P had), it might still have worked, in a Watchmen sort-of way. But funnier.

 

[McCoy]

JJ loves his fans.

Lindelof & Cuse admitted at Comicon that JJ hasn't had any involvement with the series since season 1.

Oh, well, those guys love the fans then. JJ can suck it.

 

[beneldon]

The idea of the spiders showing up at just the right time wasn't nearly as incredible as anything else the Narrative has had me to suspend my disbelief

Are you referring to the existence of these spiders being revealed here, or to the way they swarmed N after she let one loose on P?

Artz explained that the one he had was a female, and that her pheromones could bring the males swarming.

Yes, the way the spiders showed up only seconds after the lid came off exposing hormones to the apparently everywhere males. Just seemed like if one had thrown out one or two scoopfuls of chum in the water and a bunch of sharks showed up and started a feeding frenzy in seconds. Yeah I know, Hormones are powerful but...