This episode has gotten a lot of flack in the past because the writers take a "break" from telling us anything new and focus on two VERY minor characters that have nothing to do with the overall story. I heard that they wanted to show the audience that they can take anything and incorporate it into the story. And despite that the story is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, the writers do a great job and I was actually entertained upon second viewing of this episode.
It was great seeing and reliving moments like the crash, Jack's live together - die alone speech, and seeing dead characters - alive again - like Boone, Shannon and Arzt. These scenes made the episode enjoyable plus Nikki isn't bad on the eyes either. The ongoing joke of Sawyer's "Who's Nikki?" or "Who's Paulo?" didn't stop being funny at all.
The writers did decide to sneak one thing in - Charlie came clean about kidnapping Sun pretending to be the Others to get back at Locke. Not sure how she retaliated towards Charlie besides walking away, but she smacked Sawyer for giving Charlie the idea and told him that she wasn't going to tell her husband because she wouldn't want to have another funeral.
In the end it was great that Nikki and Paulo only paralyzed each other with the Medusa spider and the Losties ending up burying them alive. It was a very fitting end to two characters that added nothing to the show and thankfully I don't think the writers pull this stunt again.
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