‘Lost’ goes for the razzle dazzle
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- March
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Two words for last night’s episode.
Razzle dazzle!
What a line, what a scene, what a eye-popping episode: How many times did you say “what the…?� in that hour? (I’m guessing at least five…)
So we learned that random castaway Nikki – a.k.a. Who the Hell are You?—had a pre-island life as an actress working on a Charlie’s Angels-style TV show opposite randomly-cast (but hilarious) Billy Dee Williams.
But really she’s a con artist, sleeping with the show’s old, rich director until she can poison him and steal his $8 million stash of diamonds. With the help of Paolo, of course.
Too bad they kicked the bucket: Maybe Sawyer would have learned their names and they could have reminisced about their past scams.
But alas, the dreaded Nikki/Paolo did die, and right in the first moments of the episode, too. I totally enjoyed the fact that the writers bumped them off immediately, rather than drawing it out so fans can engage in the usual ‘who’s going to die’ guessing game.
And that twist at the end? Genius. More about that later.
First, let’s address the obvious: Were Nikki and Paolo total idiots, or just super-obsessed with finding those lost diamonds?
I get that they’re worth a ton of money and all, but you’d think finding a bizarre hatch buried in the middle of a jungle would at least slow you down for a minute.
And HELLO, Paulo?!? Overhearing Ben and Juliet in the hatch talking about kidnapping Kate, Jack and Sawyer? Watching the crash survivors on surveillance cameras?
Uh, wouldn’t you maybe mention that to someone?
I take it back: I’m glad they died. They were morons.
Though apparently not dumb enough to get in that precarious plane that ended up killing Boone.
And smart enough to somehow find a perfectly fitting red bikini for Nikki so she could flirt with Dr. Artz. (And sheesh, talk about gratuitous: The show seized the opportunity to stuff Nikki in not one, but two, bikinis last night…)
Anyway, Dr. I-Know-All-About-Dynamite-But-Still-Blew-Myself-Up had some interesting info for Nikki about the Medusa spider. I thought that device was a little hokey: Couldn’t Nikki have just bopped Paolo on the head with a coconut or something to search him for the diamonds?
But hokey or not, it paid off at the end.
Those little minxes sure got their come-uppance. Buried alive, yikes! And I thought Eko met a bad end when the smoke monster killed him.
Anyway, what did you think? Was the sudden appearance of Nikki/Paolo this season worth it for this episode?
As for myself, I don’t know whether the couple qualify as “iconic charactersâ€? – as one of the show’s exec producers claimed “in this interview”:http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20016122,00.html – but last night’s episode was sure fun to watch. It was good reminiscing with Boone, Shannon, Ethan and Artz, too.
And here’s a question for the ‘Lost’ writers: Did someone put some extra testosterone in your fruit smoothies? This week, Nikki on a stripper pole. Next week, a cat fight between Kate and Juliet.
Good grief. Go play a Game Boy or giggle over some poop jokes. Leave the ladies some dignity.
(Photos courtesy of ABC)
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on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 9:39 am by Heather Salerno.
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I’m sorry, I thought last night was a complete waste of an hour. It did not move the story forward AT ALL. There were just a couple of good moments  Sun punching Sawyer; Sawyer saying, “who are you?” to Nikki as she stormed away; and the very last moment where you realize they’re being buried alive (but sorry, I guessed from the second Nikki collapsed that she was paralyzed by some bizarre means rather than actually being dead). That’s it.
Was it a better and perhaps more entertaining hour of television than most hours of television out there? Sure. But as an episode of Lost, it was a complete waste of 60 minutes. Ugh.
I agree with Amy. What a waste! When we were first introduced to Nikki and Paolo, I thought their presence was a bit phony and out of place for the show but now that they are gone I say good riddance. It’s about time. Perhaps if they were written in as “Others” I would have accepted their existence but just throwing them in a scene out of no where was just ridiculous. I still don’t know what their purpose was but who cares they’re gone. It did nothing for the story and nothing for me. “See you in another life brotha”. Bring back Rose and Bernard!
I agree with Maggie..bring back Rose and Bernard.
I hated Nikki and Paolo. Both were very annoying but I loved the end. I flipped out when she opened her eyes when getting buried. Good Ridance.
I was not that crazy about last nights show either.
A belated reply on this ep, but how great would it have been if, like Locke said to Paolo, “things have a way of not staying buried on this island”, that Vincent, the dog, managed to dig up Nikki and/or Paolo?
Doesn’t seem like it happened though, since I’m guessing the Losties would have noticed a ‘zombie’ in the camp.
RIP Pikki.
Razzle Dazzle.
Luka Magnotta is joining LOST I hear.