About the last LOST

Where do we start with this one? Billy Dee Williams phoning in a cameo as a schlock TV character? Boone and Shannon's reappearance in a flashback (albeit with different hair for Shannon)? Zombie-esque paralyzing spider bites? Sawyer's sharp tongue?

It's all so damn confusing.

Nikki, apparently a 80's TV star from a schlock Charlie's Angels type show, beds her older producer (shades of Aaron Spelling anyone?) in order to rip off eight million dollars worth of diamonds with her chef sidekick Paolo. They crash on the lisland, and get in a fight over Paolo's lack of initiative in finding them. It turns out, he's just thinking (probably correctly) that bimbo Nikki will ditch him once she has the rocks.

Paolo, while playing hide and seek with the goods, finds out Ben's plot to kidnap Jack, and yet does nothing. He also steals a walkie talkie from the Others (like they wouldn't notice it missing).
Has he been in communicado with Ben and the gang? Who knows? I know that walkie talkie will be a big plot device in the near future. And look at Juliet scoping on Jack "He's cute." That opened the door for Ben machinations on her later, didn't it?

It's to the point in this show where even a glaring continuity error, like Nikki wandering the crash scene in nearly pristene condition, while everyone else is bloody and dirty is thought provoking. Was she already on the island? Are there copies of people that come out of the "mystery box"? Also, in the flashback, Jack's new tattoo was back.

The highlight of the night, was the interplay between Sawyer and the Beachies. Sawyer was in rare form with his running commentary and condescending name calling. But would the Sawyer we've come to know and love let 8 mil in rocks get buried? Doubt it.

Did anyone else notice Shannon's inference that Boone is gay? I believe her quote was, "Quit flirting with that guy and move it." Huh?

I was glad to see Ethan again. Apparently he's a University of Wisconsin grad as he was sporting a Bucky badger t-shirt.

Margie writes that maybe Nikki's last words weren't "Paolo lies", but were "paralyzed", as in please don't my bury my fine looking body. (And I do mean fine).

When Artz says, “The pigs are walking” in response to Kate’s explanation about the guns in the case, this is a reference to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. At the end of the book, the pigs take over the animal society, start walking on two legs and move into the farmer’s house, the final step in their “some animals are more equal than others” transition to power.

Favorite Hurley line: “No offense, dude, but as far as superpowers go, yours is kind of lame.”* So now we know what TV show Locke was watching in his apartment last week: it was “Exposé.” (The dialog, if you recall, included reference to “Crystal” and “the Cobra.”) Although it was widely reported that Billy Dee would play a character named “LaShade,” in fact, he played himself, playing a character named LaShade (aka “The Cobra”). Paolo and Niki’s “script bag” says “Exposé Season 4,” so the show would have been in it’s first season when Locke was watching.*

The diamonds were hidden inside a matrioshka doll. Matroishka dolls are often referred to as metaphors, much in the same way that onions are, meaning that some things have many layers that must be peeled away. In fact, this episode works pretty much like a matroiskha doll, with the layers of flashbacks fitting into what we already know and remember about the show. According to Wikipedia, Matroishka dolls also appeared in the credits of the John Le Carre TV miniseries “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” “with the fourth doll having no face…the unknown mole, a spy who’s buried in the deepest.”

Comments in italics were taken from popcandy)

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