Official Discussion: 3x14 Exposé

[Hollywood Heidi]

3x14 Exposé

Original Air Date: March 28, 2007
Centric: Nikki & Paulo centric
Directed by: Stephen Williams
Written by: Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
Summary: When both Nikki and Paulo apparently die, the rest of the castaways try to figure out what happened to them. In the course of the investigation, the truth about Sun's "kidnapping" comes to light. Flashbacks show what Nikki and Paulo were doing before the crash and why they kept to themselves afterwards. (tv.com)
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[Hollywood Heidi]

This would have been a 3-star episode but those last few minutes bumped it to a 4!

Holy crap.  Horrible Nikki and Paulo are finally gone and holy crap, they were buried ALIVE!  That was the creepiest, most morbid way to go!  Sawyer, Hurley, and all the others who helped dig the grave and bury them have no idea that they accidentally murdered two people.  And Nikki opening her eyes last minute at the end?  *shudder*

It was also really need to see flashbacks going all the way to the pilot episode.  We got to see Boone and Shannon again (Shannon was full on bitch mode, geez!) and we got to see Dr. Arzt.  Aw, poor Arzt.  Omg, and Ethan!  It was neat to see them work Nikki and Paulo into the scenes, kinda a different angle view of experiencing situations we already saw.  I'm so glad Nikki and Paulo are gone.  So.  Glad.  (I'm going to hell). XD

That Expose show that Nikki was in was almost as bad as Nikki and Paulo themselves!  Razzle friggin' Dazzle!  Lmao, so bad!  Hilarious that it's Hurley's favorite show.

We saw in the flashbacks just how selfish and self involved Nikki and Paulo are.  They are way worse than what we had already witnessed.  They saw the Beechcraft up on the cliff and the Pearl station way before anyone else found them.  They didn't bother telling the other survivors, even though Nikki pointed out that there might be a radio.  Douchebags.  And even worse?  Paulo was in the Pearl station when he overheard Juliet and Ben talking about taking Jack.  But did Paulo tell anybody, even AFTER Jack and the few others were taken?  Nope.  He only cared about Nikki not finding out because he wanted the love of that horrible woman who probably doesn't know how to love.  Ugh.

I don't know why I'm surprised.  The straight up murdered that old guy for his diamonds.  Man, talk about karma really taking a payback.

So the Medusa Spider is what paralyzed Paulo.  It's the only one that Arzt had caught.  And remember what he said?  The scent of the female spider draws the male Medusa Spiders from far and wide.  That's why we saw so many more all of a sudden.  However, those weren't actually the spiders.  Did you hear that sound before they started showing up?  That funny kinda steam pot sound you hear when the smoke monster goes by?  The smoke monster straight up punished Nikki by manifesting itself into a ton of the Medusa Spiders.  We already know it can turn itself into people and I think that boar that Sawyer had thought was against him might also have been the smoke monster testing him.  Now we know ol' smokey can turn into a bunch of spiders too.  *shudder*

I thought that was so clever of the writers with Nikki's last words before she's paralyzed.  The way she said it was perfect too.  I probably would have thought same as Hurley, that Nikki said "Paulo lies" rather than "Paralyzed."  It just makes more sense.  I don't think Arzt really told anybody else about the Medusa Spider.  Nobody seemed to be interested.  Only Nikki pretended to be because she was using him to draw her a map.

Oh man, I'm so happy that Charlie confessed to Sun.  I had forgotten that she still thought the Others were the ones who had dragged her into the jungle.  She gave Sawyer a well deserved slap.  A really good one, too.

Things will be so much better now that Nikki and Paulo are finally gone!


Favorite quotes/moments:

Nikki opening her eyes the split second before she and Paulo's faces are covered in dirt


Hurley: That's evidence. You're messing up the crime scene.
Sawyer: Crime scene? There a forensics hatch I don't know about?


Sawyer: He wasn't saying you're next about them, he was saying you're next as in you're all next.
Hurley: Yeah that's not really better.


Hurley: Can you, you know use your psychic powers?
Desmond: Doesn't work like that. I only see flashes.
Hurley: No offense dude, but as far as superpowers go, yours is kinda lame. Thanks anyway.


Nikki: Thanks for nothing.
[She leaves. Sawyer shouts after her.]
Sawyer: And who the hell are you?!


Sawyer: You gonna tell Jin?
Sun: No.
Sawyer: Why not?
Sun: Because then we'd have to dig another grave.

[DarkSideCookie]

Exactly the same here! I was like 3 stars, but then the last few minutes! O.O Okay, 4 stars! XD

I somehow knew the beginning scene was something like a movie scene within the show, it obviously looked like it. Then I was like 'Should I know who that woman is?", as I'm quite bad in remember faces from side characters, except of some. And when I thought to myself 'Okay who the fuck is Nicky???' (somehow forgot about Nicky and Paulo lol), Sawyer said it out loud! XD I was laughing so hard because of it. Then I remembered our talk about them in one of the other episode's reviews and was like 'Oh It's the annoying couple!' lol. I wonder if they were written in as the annoying couple on purpose? XD

And yes! Holy crap! Finally gone and buried alive! That really was it! Seriously, I was having goosebumps all over my body.

I liked those flashbacks going all the way to the pilot episode too! Nice to see some "lost" characters () again. And yes, poor Dr. Arzt... His name is still funny to me though, as Arzt means doctor in german. So his name here is like Doctor doctor lmao.

Btw I always have goosebumps whenever they are showing us the plane crash again. Not only the crash, but also the whole chaos on the beach right after. It's just something so real, if you know what I mean. Something like one of my worst nightmares!

Yeah agree. Nikki and Paulo were such terrible persons! And so annoying lol.

I was shuddering at the spider scene! O.O Another of my worst nightmares lol. But it was so well done, the connection with Arzt.

The word game with "Paralyzed" was awesome! Well, as I watch it in german language, it was a translation, but they really managed to find german words that fit into the word game! Anyway, it was so great written!

Yah, Charlie had to let that off him. I'm glad he has told Sun too. And the slap she gave to Sawyer was well deserved, yes! XD