![]() ![]() She’s even reassured by her director/much older lover (Jacob Witkin) that her character can be written back into the show, and if that Charlie Kaufman-esque stab at post-modernism (mirrored in the episode’s closing seconds) doesn’t scare the living daylights out of you than nothing on this show will. Beginning with an Alias-like scenario the finds Nikki half naked and clinging to a stripper pole only to segue into a back-office shoot-out, it’s revealed that we’re on the set of a cheesy Australian TV show where Nikki is a bit player (har har) who’s just been killed off. Like much fan fiction, the episode was peppered with self-aware humor, frequently commenting upon its own artifice. The episode seemed dedicated to rectifying earlier mistakes and appeasing critics at the expense of narrative advancement, in a sense creating fan fiction with a multi-million dollar budget. ![]() “Exposé” (from the writing team of Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz) swept Nikki and Paulo under the carpet like dust-bunnies, confirming that yes, these were the two worst characters in history before giving into fan bloodlust and literally burying them alive. If last night’s episode was any indication of how the show plans on executing its future “master plans,” we’re in for a long ride. Yet all along, show runners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof assured fans that there was a master plan for the characters that would justify all the hand-wringing. Afraid to enrage fans further, the show seemed to go out of its way to ignore Nikki and Paulo, affording them less than a combined two dozen lines over the course of the first 13 episodes of the third season, quickly reducing them to walk-ons. Unprepared for the immediate backlash, the show froze in its tracks. Desperate to replace the void on the beach created by actor exits (Cynthia Watros, Rodriguez, Harold Perrineau) and plot necessity (the abduction of Jack, Sawyer and Kate), the producers clumsily dropped two attractive but bland characters into the middle of a highly exclusive setting and prayed no one would notice. Two “red shirts” if ever there were ones, Nikki (Kylie Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro) represented the show at its absolute laziest. I am, of course, referring to the presumed passing of the much derided Nikki and Paulo, a couple of photogenic Cousin Olivers, uncomfortably shoehorned into the Lost universe last fall, instantly earning the scorn of the show’s fans across the world. Last night we said farewell, I hope, to the worst idea in the history of a series that’s given us “the magic box,” a couple of polar bears on a tropical island, and entire episodes dedicated to Rose and Bernard and Ana Lucia. ![]()
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