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Mr. LaShade, the good guy of Exposé, is really Cobra, the bad guy of Exposé, and we learn this in season four. Is one of our "good guys" being revealed as head Other bad guy Jacob in Lost's season four?

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r=j?

kind of a reach

That's horrible, even for paint

"ruh-oh...it's racob"

Just an observation...it's funny how a "filler" episode, or one that has received a lot of heat for not delivering that much has already generated four pages of responses. Not even some of the best episodes this season and in past seasons have generated this much of a response. I think the executive producers win.

"expose" looked like some of the fine work of andy sidaris

As a happy distraction from our long national nightmare — make that bad joke — that is Sanjaya Malakar, can I just say that Lost blew me away Wednesday night? What an absolute treat of an episode, a clear sign that the show, after a stalled fall, is back in full throttle, back on its creative game and still more than capable of spinning a great, entertaining yarn.

Weaving flashbacks that appeared to be posthumous but really weren't (more on that later) while providing clever new angles on classic Lost moments from previous seasons — including the immediate aftermath of the crash itself — this episode was also a welcome reminder that sometimes these producers really do seem to know what they're doing after all. We were silly, and unworthy, to have doubted them, don't you think? For all those times this season that we clucked and shook our heads whenever we spied the marginal beauties Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro), wondering (as Sawyer often said, to great comic effect) "Who the hell are they?" it turns out that they were living in their own little movie all along.

While we were occupied elsewhere, Nikki and Paulo were trapped in a vicious little noir melodrama of their own making, the murderous femme fatale (nice spider metaphor) and her equally devious but doomed mate locked in a dance of deceit and greed over an improbably fabulous $8 million cache of diamonds. Their quest for the missing bag of loot took them to places we'd discovered through others' (and sometimes even the Others') eyes, and it was thrilling and fascinating to realize that Our Heroes weren’t always the first on the scene. The foreshadowing of their fate may have been obvious ("I'm just a guest star. We all know what happens to guest stars.", yet it was almost as much fun as the Charlie's Angels parody Nikki appeared in to kick off this playful hour. Struggling actress? Sure. Budding villainess? Why not.

When Nikki and Paulo's paths crossed, precrash, with a bickering Shannon and Boone in the airport, and Nikki cooed to Paulo, "Promise me we'll never end up like them," the drumroll response of "What? Dead?" was quite the kick. Piecing together the circumstances of their unhappy but well-deserved destiny was part of the joy of the episode, which played out at times like a classic murder mystery.

The real echoes here were the fatalistic noir of James M. Cain (think Double Indemnity) and the deliciously manipulative suspense of Alfred Hitchcock. And with its creepy buried-alive finish, once we realized the couple's spider bites were only paralyzing and not fatal, we got the morality-play thrill of ghoulish just desserts, like a classic Twilight Zone parable by way of Tales from the Crypt (or in this case, the hatch). Turned out the flashbacks weren't coming from the afterlife, because while we thought Nikki and Paulo were dead, their minds were racing about what got them into this fine mess. It won't be easy to shake this one.

Lost has been on a roll for a while now, but this episode helped restore the sense of pure adventurous storytelling excitement that drew so many of us to this island of buried secrets in the first place.

That may very well be the most well written piece of crap I've ever seen.

you should write some fan fic and share it with us

OK anyone else noticed that Bernard and Rose have been completely gone every since Nikki and Paolo appeared.

The lost writers do everything for a reason. There is a reason why Sawyer and everyone there a;ways say to Nikki and Paolo, "Who the hell are you?" Now think about this, they have been on the island for over 80 freakin' days and how can you miss someone like Nikki (HOT!!), especially if you are a guy, like Sawyer. :-)

I think when Desmond went back in time, after ther hatch imploded, he changed the timeline making Nikki & Paolo on the plane not Bernard & Rose!



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Diddles didn't write that, Matt Roush at TVGuide did.

The guy is prob the best TV critic out there...he's very objective and not afraid to turn on a show gone bad or be positive when a show improves. Here's what he had to say about the b*tchfest that was the Hurley episode:

The show may never regain the mass audience of its first season, and that was probably inevitable. As the show got denser and the island more cluttered with new characters and enigmas, not all created equal, the impatient among us gave up, screaming “not another Twin Peaks!” and drifted away to more predictable shores. Their loss. Even at its worst, which arguably came in the ill-conceived six-episode “pod” last fall, Lost is still one of TV’s most ambitious and spectacular productions, blessed with a fascinatingly diverse cast (this year, largely underused until now) that reveals new depths with each flashback into their back stories. For all of the whining about the withholding of answers, some absolutely justified and some just an example of whining for whining’s sake, the level of storytelling on Lost is generally among TV’s most absorbing."

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This may have been posted, but I read something about lost being cancelled?

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i think that was an april fool's joke...

maybe it was

zap, I saw that Stephen King short and it's all I could think about during this show.

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Charlie's baptism episode has been mostly worthless to this point. Rose & Bernard's S.O.S. episode also contributed very little... especially when you write them off the show almost immediately afterwards.

That said, I enjoyed this episode. If you're not going to answer some big questions then at least give us some action & intensity.

from http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20016318,00.html

What do these three television artifacts have in common?

Lost Flight: A 1969 TV movie about the survivors of an airplane crash struggling to live on a deserted jungle island. ''An adult version of Lord of the Flies,'' according to imdb.com.

The New People: A short-lived 1969 TV series on ABC about a bunch of young punks who crash on an island that was supposed to be used as an atomic test site but never was. (Maybe the military got spooked by the giant smoke monster that liked to bang them around like an angry baby with a rattle.) Forgotten by the outside world, the kids settle into the abandoned facilities on the island and take a stab at starting an idyllic civilization.

Lost: An ongoing ABC television series that last night fielded a frequently clever if not altogether successful episode about two of its least compelling characters, Nikki and Paulo, a.k.a. ''Little Miss Who the Hell Are You?'' and ''Hunky Brazilian Guy Who Poops a Lot.''

The common denominator?

Billy Dee! Billy Dee! Billy Dee!

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Rose & Bernard's S.O.S. episode also contributed very little... especially when you write them off the show almost immediately afterwards.

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These two are supposed to get a significant storyline this season...

The actors do some stagework, that is why we don't see them hangin around when there is not much going on for the characters.

Not sure I get what you're getting at?

All three shows are lost on an island? There are many shows and movies with the same theme.

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Not sure I get what you're getting at?

All three shows are lost on an island? There are many shows and movies with the same theme.

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The common denominator is Billie D "Lando" Williams!

A couple of things....

I love me some Billy Dee.

Nikki was not that hot.

Paulo was too pretty to die.

Yes she was.

And I'm calling it right now. Bernard=Jacob.

I think Desmond is supposed to represent Jesus. I mean, just look at him:

I have seen clips of that video in church. Our preacher would play a clip from a movie or some video to supplement the sermon. When Desmond showed up on the screen as Jesus, I would nudge my wife and tell her that the he was Desmond.

I think it was from a TV movie, but that was two years ago.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index

sneak peek for the week.

The last one was very cool. The two future buried alive cast members were one step ahead of everyone else in discoveries. Very cool how they used old video, mixed with some edit techniques, along with a few up to date shots to weave the story.
Wish they would get back to a bit of pure survival on an island full of monsters, but this was an interesting diversion.

It's from "The Gospel of John."

So, who else is ready for some Kate v. Juliet catfight action tonight!? WOOO!!

Yeah, tonight looks like a cool episode. Kate's a tough felon and Juliette killed that other guy in cold blood. Should be a great match up!

Should we take predictions in who wins?

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And I'm calling it right now. Bernard=Jacob.

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You may be right. He probably knew Rose was dying, and took her to the island.

So are they in Purgatory?

Hurley is totally conning Sawyer. there is no vote for Banishment.

but the problem I have with this is that Sawyer is a freakin' con man... if he wanted to butter people up and compliment them, he knows how to do that.

okay, I'll be the first:

tonights episode = steaming pile of dog****

I liked it, but we didn't learn a damn thing.

Juliette is a plant. She's scamming them. She was with the group putting on gas masks and getting their bags & guns ready. Right?

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