On Feb 16, 8:21=EF=BF=BDam, "Neil Harrington" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Darren Delgado wrote:
> > On Feb 15, 8:15 am, "Neil Harrington" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> "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?
>
> >>>>> 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.
>
> >>>> 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.
>
> >> Huh?
>
> >>>> 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.
>
> >>>> And it had Billy Dee Williams!! =EF=BF=BDHow cool was that!
>
> >>>> Kate
>
> >>> Agreed, I hated the characters of Nikki and Paolo, and they brought
> >>> down pretty much any episode they were in whenever they had screen
>
> >> Uh, "any episode they were in"? Refresh my memory, what other
> >> episodes were they in?
>
> > Are you serious? =EF=BF=BDThey each appeared in six episodes prior to
th=
e 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. =EF=BF=BDThere was a general backlash
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ard
> > the characters from the fans, who couldn't stand Nikki and Paolo, and
> > they were killed off because of it.
>
> I can see I'll have to watch Season Three over again. I don't recall
them =
in
> any episode except that in which they were knocked off.
That's perfectly understandable. The names were in the credits of all
the early episodes, but I think the characters themselves only showed
up in two or three before the one where they were offed. They were
supposed to be in more, but their scenes were cut. If you have the
Season Three DVD set, there are at least three deleted scenes,
including one which was supposed to be their initial appearance.
RWG (and IIRC, only Nikki had real lines before "The Cost of Living,")
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