I fell asleep during the episode last night (the new hour is killing me). I'm catching up now, and just re-watched the scene that made me go all meta while watching. It takes place right after they've found Paulo's "body".
HURLEY: I'm with Jin; it's the monster.
SAWYER: Yeah, because that makes the most sense.
HURLEY: It does! Locke said when Eko died, his last words were, "You're next," and Nikki and Paulo were with them. He was talking about them.
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.
SAWYER: All right, so here's how I see it: we wanna know what happened -- we gotta find out whatever we can about these Jabonies.
JIN: Jabonies?
SAWYER: Nina and Pablo.
HURLEY: Dude, show some respect. You know their names; it's Nikki and Paulo.
Tell me the writers weren't shouting out to or mocking the fandom, there.
you know why i think i liked last night? it reminded me of the first season when things were still good. i did roll my eyes a bit at them finding the hatch and such, but it was neat to see all that old footage with them in it.
it reminded me of the first season when things were still good.
I'm wondering. Was the first season any better, quality-wise, episode by episode, then what we're getting now? Or is it just that it was a better experience since it was shiny and new, and people are just tired of the ride now?
P-C,
I think it was a lot better quality-wise. I watched the first 15 minutes of the pilot this morning and I was still captivated. There were some bad eps the first season, but it was really interesting and I liked the characterization.
There is so much since that's been contradictory. It is hard to go back to season 2 and watch it with as much enthusiasm.
it's probably a little bit of both, P-C. i was never really all that invested in Alias and so when people were predicting that Lost would turn out to be much the same, it didn't really mean anything to me. hindsight. she is 20/20.
It occurred to me that, given that I'd heard there were a lot of extremely negative reactions to Nikki and Paolo being shoe-horned into the beach group after 3 seasons, that we may have just seen LOST'S unironic remake of the Poochie episode of THE SIMPSONS.
Frank, I never saw the Poochie episode of THE SIMPSONS, but it seems they were written off due to negative reaction (and yay for that). [link]
Frank, I never saw the Poochie episode of THE SIMPSONS, but it seems they were written off due to negative reaction (and yay for that).
Which is perzactly what the Poochie episode was about.
