>: 61 EXPOSE
No time for a previously. Nikki running. And burying. Straight into the flashback. Not a stripper, but certainly acting. Lando! The Star Wars shirt that Lindelof wore to his first meeting with Abrams is a widely reported indicator of initial compatibility, so what a great feeling for them both. Wish Billy Dee could have stuck around. Looks like they were shooting the season 4 finale for Expose right there, based on Hurley’s later comment, as that’s clearly the big Cobra reveal, which all but guarantees that we can expect the Big Bad Guy reveal in about 28 episodes at the end of season 4 here. Unless they’re just fucking with us. Lots of meta-dialogue this episode. Wink and wink. From the get-go, the director telling Nikki that she doesn’t have to stay dead, they can bring her back next season.
Sawyer’s “Who the hell is Nikki?” line is funny, but forced, as he delivered it two episodes ago. On the rewatch, knowing he’s lying, it’s cool to watch Holloway say it then flick his eyes up at Hurley, to see how he’s taking it.
Paolo’s the Wolfgang Puck of Brazil. That’s funny, because apparently Rodrigo Santoro has been going around telling everyone, including one would assume the writers, that he’s the Tom Cruise of Brazil. Xerxes! Spartaaaa!
Man, this episode has to be rewatched to be believed, just from the get-go how they lay it out for you. Paolo in the closet about to light up a smoke, the same nicotine addiction Brett that will get him killed, and Nikki says “we poisoned him, let’s not poison ourselves.”
Those Russian dolls would’ve been a lot less disturbing to me if I hadn’t had like three layered waking up within waking up dreams early Wednesday morning.
Paolo lies. Here lies Paolo.
Howie created Strike Team: Alpha and Dr. Kincaid, Esq. as well. Sounds like the Aaron Spelling template to me. Won’t Zuckerman always be a Charlotte’s Web allusion? For ever and ever?
Nice to see Boone and Shannon, and all the dead people, again. Nudge and wink your friend at the impossibly ironic dialogue ensuing. Once this got going, Artz showing up and so forth, I figured Nikki was due for a catfight with Ana-Lucia in half an hour, but that is the true test because they sure as hell did not want M Rodriguez back in Oahu, no.
Paolo’s bag is an Expose Season 4 bag. Second Easter egg about it being season 4. I know, what else could it have been, but I didn’t get it until Hurley’s line.
“Promise me we’ll never end up like them.”
Get it?
Awesome, and straight into the pilot, Shannon screaming. I loved this. They can pretty much have me any time they thread back through all that’s come before and keep adding details and context for later developments. So cool the way they interlaced first-five-minutes-of-the-series I’m so intimate with into the contemporary milieu (ha, been waiting years to drop that one into a conversation), I remember Locke sending the girl away before the dude went into the turbine, have to go look at that, surely not Kiele Sanchez. Someday. Boone asking for the pi(e)n was priceless, I about bruised my knee.
And after that nonsense(again), we begin to understand that this is CSI:108 and that we’re not going to find out one thing about Cooper or whatever that is, tied up there. “There a forensics hatch I don’t know about?” might win Best Line.
Ethan and Nikki with their masks were really interesting for ten seconds before the episode 5 climax came raging into the frame. So great to see Fox deliver the classic speech from a different angle (slightly). I remembered the words, and helped him.
(ah, episode 5. Where are you, Brother Christian?Where are you?Brother Inman?)
Loved Sawyer and Hurley debating the singular/plural context of Eko’s last words, I do that all the time.
Hah, they came across the plane first. Paolo shoots down Nikki’s analogous sentiment in a way Boone obviously couldn’t to Locke. (go up there). Bit unbelievable that they’d not only just open up the ol Pearl but walk away, not wondering what’s down there. 13 episodes!!!! (Hey, what really is going on with this island research facility and its subterranean network? I’d love to know that answer, someday)
Charlie says “virus”! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You people have no idea. One day, you’ll see. Hear. Oh yes.
“The Cobra’s this big bad guy. His identity’s been shrouded in mystery for four seasons.”
Most important line of the evening, lovelies.
Artz’s line about his mother sounded just like drunk Paul Mann to me. Followed by “The pigs are walking!” and the return to the lagoon. Only one bereft of a soul could not love this episode.
32 Days Ago. So we were 48 in. Guess that’s how the stars realigned, it was so weird, such a good trick, Paolo trying to bury the doll and then Locke striding out of the jungle just like always to drop a parable or some other such perfect sixty-second advice. Made me sad. This is the Locke that I loved. Who had such potential. Guess this is technically early 2nd season, Locke’s probably on his first ever break from pushing the button, so he’s still got all of his first season mojo. Jimmy Kimmel made a real good point, highlighting his line “Things don’t stay buried on this island” to Nikki when she came on his show Thursday night. In hindsight and all.
And Paolo in the Pearl, with Ben & Juliet, so great. I remember him taking a dump in 3.5 as being so out of place, cool that this was the plan. Never doubt, island faithful! This exchange completely flew by me the first time while he was in the head:
Ben: Who left this open?
Juliet: Tom was down here a couple of days ago.
Ben: Help me (have him?) cover it up with the plane.
Very interesting to hear them talk about things pre-Rousseau’s net.
Can’t believe Charlie told Sun.
I could have sat on the mystery of Mikhail the Eyepatch Man for another season, as well. Too cool in my head to crystallize this soon.
12 Hours Ago. I bought it. Him loving her. And hiding the diamonds to keep her interest. Great bite-sized tragic love story. Doomed by fate, crossed by stars.
Can’t believe Sawyer made the Who the hell? joke a third time. Lazy writing.
Got to love Sun slapping him, though.
“And…I really loved Expose.”
Nice touch, Sawyer finally calling them by their names while sprinkling eight million dollars on them.
As well as redoing Nikki stumbling upon the ping-pong rematch POV into the dirt to match what happened eight hours later.
And it was macabre! Wrong! I was so happy for Stephen King, his toes squirming in his easy chair up in Maine. Yes, twins, you can point to and bitch about holes. The Medusa Spider as arachne ex machina. What about Nikki opening her eyes first when Paolo should have five minutes beforehand, as he was bitten first? I don’t care. I enjoyed the hell out of this.
While I’m directly addressing Kimbleys: yes, Chris, great catch. Last week, when Locke was getting down on my Marie Callendar meatloaf right before Kevin Talbot made the last mistake of his charmed life by knocking on his motel room door, the dialogue of the show Locke was grazing in front of went something like
“Here’s what we know, Crystal, the vallidium(?) coal deposits were stolen last night around 2AM.”
“Autumn, that means . . . the Cobra!”
(shots fired, sounds of general mayhem ensuing)
So, nice connection there. Locke must have been watching one of the very earliest episodes of Expose, first season for sure.
Very satisfying done-in-one, while of course leaving us ravenous for a follow-up to last week’s cliffhanger.
Easter eggs: Sawyer reading Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie. I still haven’t started The Fountainhead. Still.
The slate on the Expose finalewhen Lando plugged Nikki said that Stephen Williams was the director of the episode. Diehards will recognize his name as the guy who directs any 24 episode when they REALLY turn the screws on somebody, I’m talking about torture, and he’s probably directed the second most episodes of LOST, behind Jack Bender.
Disappointment: This was the 3.14 pi episode, so I was just sure we’d get some Valenzetti numbers clarification. Come on! It can’t be a coincidence that the difference twixt 23 and 42 is 19, can it? (Cue EkoQuote)
Disclaimer: This rewatch’review was begun by accident at exactly 1:08 after concluding the entire hellacious run of PREACHER (Cheers Todd, Danny, Robert, and Todd), and Jack Daniels and Lone Star and it should go without saying the Reverend Jesse Custer were my co-pilots. Amen.
Sawyer’s “Who the hell is Nikki?” line is funny, but forced, as he delivered it two episodes ago. On the rewatch, knowing he’s lying, it’s cool to watch Holloway say it then flick his eyes up at Hurley, to see how he’s taking it.
Paolo’s the Wolfgang Puck of Brazil. That’s funny, because apparently Rodrigo Santoro has been going around telling everyone, including one would assume the writers, that he’s the Tom Cruise of Brazil. Xerxes! Spartaaaa!
Man, this episode has to be rewatched to be believed, just from the get-go how they lay it out for you. Paolo in the closet about to light up a smoke, the same nicotine addiction Brett that will get him killed, and Nikki says “we poisoned him, let’s not poison ourselves.”
Those Russian dolls would’ve been a lot less disturbing to me if I hadn’t had like three layered waking up within waking up dreams early Wednesday morning.
Paolo lies. Here lies Paolo.
Howie created Strike Team: Alpha and Dr. Kincaid, Esq. as well. Sounds like the Aaron Spelling template to me. Won’t Zuckerman always be a Charlotte’s Web allusion? For ever and ever?
Nice to see Boone and Shannon, and all the dead people, again. Nudge and wink your friend at the impossibly ironic dialogue ensuing. Once this got going, Artz showing up and so forth, I figured Nikki was due for a catfight with Ana-Lucia in half an hour, but that is the true test because they sure as hell did not want M Rodriguez back in Oahu, no.
Paolo’s bag is an Expose Season 4 bag. Second Easter egg about it being season 4. I know, what else could it have been, but I didn’t get it until Hurley’s line.
“Promise me we’ll never end up like them.”
Get it?
Awesome, and straight into the pilot, Shannon screaming. I loved this. They can pretty much have me any time they thread back through all that’s come before and keep adding details and context for later developments. So cool the way they interlaced first-five-minutes-of-the-series I’m so intimate with into the contemporary milieu (ha, been waiting years to drop that one into a conversation), I remember Locke sending the girl away before the dude went into the turbine, have to go look at that, surely not Kiele Sanchez. Someday. Boone asking for the pi(e)n was priceless, I about bruised my knee.
And after that nonsense(again), we begin to understand that this is CSI:108 and that we’re not going to find out one thing about Cooper or whatever that is, tied up there. “There a forensics hatch I don’t know about?” might win Best Line.
Ethan and Nikki with their masks were really interesting for ten seconds before the episode 5 climax came raging into the frame. So great to see Fox deliver the classic speech from a different angle (slightly). I remembered the words, and helped him.
(ah, episode 5. Where are you, Brother Christian?Where are you?Brother Inman?)
Loved Sawyer and Hurley debating the singular/plural context of Eko’s last words, I do that all the time.
Hah, they came across the plane first. Paolo shoots down Nikki’s analogous sentiment in a way Boone obviously couldn’t to Locke. (go up there). Bit unbelievable that they’d not only just open up the ol Pearl but walk away, not wondering what’s down there. 13 episodes!!!! (Hey, what really is going on with this island research facility and its subterranean network? I’d love to know that answer, someday)
Charlie says “virus”! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You people have no idea. One day, you’ll see. Hear. Oh yes.
“The Cobra’s this big bad guy. His identity’s been shrouded in mystery for four seasons.”
Most important line of the evening, lovelies.
Artz’s line about his mother sounded just like drunk Paul Mann to me. Followed by “The pigs are walking!” and the return to the lagoon. Only one bereft of a soul could not love this episode.
32 Days Ago. So we were 48 in. Guess that’s how the stars realigned, it was so weird, such a good trick, Paolo trying to bury the doll and then Locke striding out of the jungle just like always to drop a parable or some other such perfect sixty-second advice. Made me sad. This is the Locke that I loved. Who had such potential. Guess this is technically early 2nd season, Locke’s probably on his first ever break from pushing the button, so he’s still got all of his first season mojo. Jimmy Kimmel made a real good point, highlighting his line “Things don’t stay buried on this island” to Nikki when she came on his show Thursday night. In hindsight and all.
And Paolo in the Pearl, with Ben & Juliet, so great. I remember him taking a dump in 3.5 as being so out of place, cool that this was the plan. Never doubt, island faithful! This exchange completely flew by me the first time while he was in the head:
Ben: Who left this open?
Juliet: Tom was down here a couple of days ago.
Ben: Help me (have him?) cover it up with the plane.
Very interesting to hear them talk about things pre-Rousseau’s net.
Can’t believe Charlie told Sun.
I could have sat on the mystery of Mikhail the Eyepatch Man for another season, as well. Too cool in my head to crystallize this soon.
12 Hours Ago. I bought it. Him loving her. And hiding the diamonds to keep her interest. Great bite-sized tragic love story. Doomed by fate, crossed by stars.
Can’t believe Sawyer made the Who the hell? joke a third time. Lazy writing.
Got to love Sun slapping him, though.
“And…I really loved Expose.”
Nice touch, Sawyer finally calling them by their names while sprinkling eight million dollars on them.
As well as redoing Nikki stumbling upon the ping-pong rematch POV into the dirt to match what happened eight hours later.
And it was macabre! Wrong! I was so happy for Stephen King, his toes squirming in his easy chair up in Maine. Yes, twins, you can point to and bitch about holes. The Medusa Spider as arachne ex machina. What about Nikki opening her eyes first when Paolo should have five minutes beforehand, as he was bitten first? I don’t care. I enjoyed the hell out of this.
While I’m directly addressing Kimbleys: yes, Chris, great catch. Last week, when Locke was getting down on my Marie Callendar meatloaf right before Kevin Talbot made the last mistake of his charmed life by knocking on his motel room door, the dialogue of the show Locke was grazing in front of went something like
“Here’s what we know, Crystal, the vallidium(?) coal deposits were stolen last night around 2AM.”
“Autumn, that means . . . the Cobra!”
(shots fired, sounds of general mayhem ensuing)
So, nice connection there. Locke must have been watching one of the very earliest episodes of Expose, first season for sure.
Very satisfying done-in-one, while of course leaving us ravenous for a follow-up to last week’s cliffhanger.
Easter eggs: Sawyer reading Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie. I still haven’t started The Fountainhead. Still.
The slate on the Expose finalewhen Lando plugged Nikki said that Stephen Williams was the director of the episode. Diehards will recognize his name as the guy who directs any 24 episode when they REALLY turn the screws on somebody, I’m talking about torture, and he’s probably directed the second most episodes of LOST, behind Jack Bender.
Disappointment: This was the 3.14 pi episode, so I was just sure we’d get some Valenzetti numbers clarification. Come on! It can’t be a coincidence that the difference twixt 23 and 42 is 19, can it? (Cue EkoQuote)
Disclaimer: This rewatch’review was begun by accident at exactly 1:08 after concluding the entire hellacious run of PREACHER (Cheers Todd, Danny, Robert, and Todd), and Jack Daniels and Lone Star and it should go without saying the Reverend Jesse Custer were my co-pilots. Amen.
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