On Feb 15, 8:15 am, "Neil Harrington" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Darren Delgado" <darrendelg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Feb 14, 7:49 pm, khalle...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On Feb 14, 3:33 pm, "Neil Harrington" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > "Gumby" <gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > > Neil Harrington wrote:
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> >> > >> Slow pace is OK as long as it advances the story. What annoys me
is
> >> > >> something that has nothing to do with the story or actual
> >> > >> characters,
> >> > >> like that Tales From the Crypt-type episode with the paralyzing
> >> > >> spiders,
> >> > >> not relevant to anything and apparently just stuffed in as a
filler.
> >> > > But how many times did we think that about an incident only to be
> >> > > proven
> >> > > wrong when that incident had a bunch to do with future plot?
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> >> > In the case of that episode, it concerned two characters not seen
> >> > before in
> >> > the series and never seen again. Their story began and ended in
that
> >> > one
> >> > episode and as far as I can see had no possible connection with
> >> > anything
> >> > else in the series. We never even saw or heard of the paralyzing
> >> > spiders
> >> > again and I doubt we ever will. To me it was just a filler and a
waste
> >> > of
> >> > time. I hope they don't do that sort of thing again.
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> >> Hm, and I thought the suggestion that Boone was killed because Ben
> >> asked Tom to cover the hatch with the airplane was pretty darn
> >> significant, all by itself.
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> Huh?
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> >> And there were a lot of other clues mixed into that episode - now if
> >> they could have been worked in elsewhere might be up for argument,
but
> >> that it was just filler is just wrong.
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> >> And it had Billy Dee Williams!! How cool was that!
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> >> Kate
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> > Agreed, I hated the characters of Nikki and Paolo, and they brought
> > down pretty much any episode they were in whenever they had screen
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> Uh, "any episode they were in"? Refresh my memory, what other episodes
were
> they in?
Are you serious? They each appeared in six episodes prior to the one
in which they were killed off.
The producers introduced them into the cast in the beginning of Season
3 and sort of wrote them into the fabric of the beach camp as if they
had been there the whole time. There was a general backlash toward
the characters from the fans, who couldn't stand Nikki and Paolo, and
they were killed off because of it.
> > time. But the episode in which they were killed off was fantastic.
> > Not just because they were killed off in it, but because it was an
all-
> > around awesome story.
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> The spiders story was a refugee from Tales From the Crypt. Corny and
> predictable, nothing to do with the main story line, a distraction,
> irrelevant.
To each his own. I thought it was filler, but it was fun filler
(unlike the Jack's tattoo saga which was filler and immensely
boring). Also it was a clever response to the fans' displeasure with
the two characters and their rather forced introduction into Season
3. This episode also revealed that Ben is actually aware of the Swan
Station and had been spying on it the whole time, which is kind of
im****tant. Among a number of other reveals.
Then again, you didn't even know Nikki and Paolo were in any episodes
prior to being killed, so you may not be the best authority on what
the storyline is and how much it had to do with anything else.
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