Comments on: LOST: “Expose”

By: Ivan Wolfe

Ivan Wolfe — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:14:15 +0000

This isn’t due to my quick eyes – I got it from this website:
http://lost.cubit.net/forum/index.php?action=gallery;cat=5

the books sawyer was reading was “Evil Under the Sun” by Agatha Christie.

Likely a pun on the “mystery” of the episode, as well as the character Sun and the revelation of the evil done to her. Or something.

By: john f.

john f. — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:01:13 +0000

Great episode. There’s always the possibility that Vincent will dig them out — he knew they weren’t dead when they were laying on the sheet; that’s why he kept uncovering them.

We know this N&P stuff has been planned at least since the beginning of this season because of the scene in which Niki discovers the video of Mikhail at the Pearl station and Paolo comes out of the bathroom and says the toilet still works.

The Russian doll element was very good. We might still see a few more layers of this that are yet to be unravelled.

Anyone glimpse what Sawyer was reading when Niki asked him for a gun? My wife and I couldn’t make it out. But, of course, the Artz’s Animal Farm quote was a great touch.

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:39:18 +0000

BTW – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is one of those shows I keep wanting to rewatch. It’s been years since I saw it. I have fond memories of it being one of the better cold war spy films. That along with Hopscotch with Walter Matthau.

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:36:30 +0000

I thought this was one of the better episodes of the season. Go figure. I liked the change from the usual format. The big question is was their death ultimately from themselves or was it the Island doing something?

There were lots of little things in the show I liked. Such as them looking at Shannon and her brother and saying, “I hope we never end up like them” and then ending up like them. (Dead on the Island, probably due to the Island)

I think the Sawyer element was pretty important. The Island seems to demand change (atonement) or death. Thus the death of Ecko (although that episode really, really bugged me on a ton of levels) Sawyer is changing. So is Jack. In a way everyone on the Island is an unsavory figure. Some are, like Locke, developing. Some aren’t.

The big question. Why was the school teacher killed?

What was jarring is how unlike their characters from two years ago Shannon and Boone looked. Boone lost a lot of weight and Shannon looked plain weird.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:28:28 +0000

Oh, and I loved when Nikki was walking off the tv set telling the guy “everyone knows that supporting actors are always killed off in the end” (or however it was worded). Well played.

By: Tim J

Tim J — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:11:35 +0000

It wasn’t as bad as introducing the “tailies” and having an entire series of shows dedicated to them…and then killing them off.

By: HP

HP — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:17:55 +0000

not true. That walkie-talkie will become important and is the real reason for the whole episode. A point in my favor: it has more personality than Nikki and Paolo combined.

By: jjohnsen

jjohnsen — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:08:27 +0000

It was ok. Not as good as the last few weeks. It kind of felt shoehorned in. They introduced these new characters that nobody seemed to like, then made an episode to get rid of them that almost feel like filler. The overall story didn’t really move forward.

By: Tim J

Tim J — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:01:37 +0000

Also, don’t forget the walkie-talkie.

By: Tim J

Tim J — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:41:06 +0000

While it didn’t advance the plot per se, I feel there were elements that could come into play later on, like the spiders.

I liked the episode. A little Hitchcockian and a fun way to do a little recap.