But they will be dead by suffocation by then.

Yeah, they kinda glossed over that one. That was one of the big ones bugging me. More so than what paralyzed Locke. Glad they finally answered that one.

I loved it and this is desperately what the show has needed. Step away from the others for a bit and get back to the other survivors(besides Jack, Kate & Sawyer). It was nice having some relatively new blood in the survivor group. They are on quite the hot streak. Ever since and INCLUDING the Tricia Tanaka episode, this season has improved immensely since the first six episodes. And Desmond's episode has to rank in the top 3 of the series for me. It does seem like they realize they need to step things up and move things along a bit more. We learned why Kate & Sawyer were taken, and it was nice to see Charlie fess up to taking Sun with Sawyers help.

Even though this episode seems like stand-alone filler, they managed to give us some info. It was also nice seeing Shannon, Boone, Arzt & Ethan. It was spoiled a bit from the opening credits though.

The venom could have been just as deadly topical as well. He did squash the thing while she was only bit.


I loved that!

Exact opposite for me. This episode reminded me why I love Lost in the first place. This episode could have easily been done during season 1 and that's why I like it. I'm going to have to keep my eye on these two writers.

So are those two indeed dead? Afterall, Locke did say in this episode "Nothing on this island remains buried," or something along those lines.

Onto the questions:

Was I the only one that found it odd that Paulo found "the Pearl" before Locke?

And how was it that Paulo was able to open the hatch? Looks like he found it before Locke as well. Locke only found it because Eko's brother's plane fell on it, right? The plane was still in the tree when Paulo found it. My memory is fuzzy. Did Desmond just happen to be out and about when Paulo found it? When Locke found it, the hatch door was covered with dirt. Dirt Paulo didn't replace after he opened it.

I also forgot to check and see if they showed "Quarantine" on the inside of the hatch door last night from Paulo's perspective.

Great episode. But absolutely pointless.

It was a self contained episode about 2 characters that no one cared about. Did not progress any issue or story that is happening on lost.

Not a bad episode, especially for a completely pointless one. Loved that ending.

Oh, and if you remember only one thing from this episode, let it be Nikki's utter hotness. My lord! Whew!

That was one bad-looking wig on Boone lol.

I wonder if in flashbacks we'll see the radio come into play? I'm surprised Paulo kept all this stuff secret like the plane, hatch, visit from Ben and Juliette.

Great ep!

I love how Paulo's bathroom visit actually meant something...

I care about Rose and Bernard.

That was mine you heard...

The bite of the female spider (Paulo) might also be more potent then the male one (Nicki).

Like others have said, I really enjoyed the episode even if it did not mean much for the overall storyline.

I really didn't care for this episode at all. The entire thing was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'remember this' game that felt like it was written by a couple of high schoolers who watch the show religiously. Some of the jokes would have been somewhat entertaining if they'd been in a SNL skit parodying Lost, but they just came across as horribly stupid when presented in the context of the show itself. I know it might just be the marketing morons at abc, but next week's preview looked pretty stupid too.



Maybe in a couple weeks we'll have a preview where Sawyer's burning all the female Lostie's clothes so they have to walk around naked all the time. Yeah, that'll help the ratings!

Not a bad episode considering it was filler. Ending was kinda cool I thought though.

I enjoyed last night's episode. No real purpose other than to play to the complaints that many have had about those two -- great ending indeed.

Great episode - great ending. I don't care that it was essentially a filler episode. Thought the way they handled the whole complaints about passengers off-screen, then the complaints about these 2 coming out of nowhere was brilliant - they made an on-screen reference to guest stars not lasting and then tied it all up beautifully.

But why do they have to keep killing off the hot chicks though.

Oh and we need a show called Expose featuring strippers and Billy Dee Williams. That's weekend syndication cheesy gold.

They explained that the first time Paulo was in the station stashing the diamonds when Ben & Juliet came in and watched Jack on the monitor. Ben asked if she had left the hatch uncovered, and told her to throw something back over it when they left.

I forgot about that... interesting. Good catch, might mean something.

...Then again, it's Lost.

This may have been addressed but the spiders coming after nicky was not part of the black smoke. The school teacher told nicky the the harmones of the female spider would have males swarming in minutes. Nevermind I see it has been addressed 100 times. For the record I dont think it had anything to do with the black smoke.

something was up w/ the black smoke though right before the scene. We didn't see anything, but we definitely heard the buzzing/cicada-like sound...

Also, I think the original poster is comfusing the hatches. Desmond was in the one Boone and Locke uncovered. The "Pearl" was a different hatch altogether that Locke and Ecko found. The big mystery of them finding it before Locke is that Locke was on a quest to find it once he discovered there were multiple hatches. The two from last night saw the plane, walked a bit farther and stumbled onto the hatch. Locke followed some kind of map. When Locke found the plane, he sent Boone up into it and got Boone killed. Had he wandered around a bit, he probably would have stumbled over it as well.

So now that they have shown PROOF that the "Others" use the hatches, what is their connection to Desmond and the Quarrentine?

Also, I don't think the people that are being called "Others" are the ones that create the voices that surround people in the woods.

While I didn't care for the episode, the Ben & Juliet scene did at least seem to shoot down any theories that the Others know the Losties from some time before the crash. It also seemed to indicate that whatever the source they use to compile incredible amounts of data on each of the Losties, it doesn't include pictures of what they actually look like.

Flashback Nikki (referring to Shannon and Boone): Promise me we’ll never end up like them.
Flashback Paolo: Don’t worry. They’ll both eventually end up dead and quickly forgotten by the audience. The same fate doesn’t await us.

Not to nitpick, but Locke said winter's coming, high tide. So, if they just passed Thanksgiving, and they're in the South Pacific, wouldn't that mean Summer's coming?

I liked the filler episode as well. Nice high school reunion with Arzt, Shannon, and Boone...and I'll never get tired of seeing that poor schlub get sucked into the jet turbine. After it was over I told Mrs. BD it was a prettier episode of "Hammer House of Horror" or something.

I liked how Nikki asked Paulo in the airport to promise that they'd never end up like Boone and Shannon (she meant arguing, we knew it meant dead). Plenty of thought and retrospective in this episode and a nice low blow to the fanboys by having Paulo wondering if the smoke monster was a dinosaur.

I thought that was complete bullshit.

He finds the hatch, plane, some "other" people and a walkie talkie on the Island, but keeps his fucking mouth shut.

Yeah.... I'm going to buy that for $1.