As Sawyer put it so perfectly in her last episode, “Who the hell is Nikki?”

Kiele Sanchez as Nikki Fernandez on LOST

As Sawyer put it so perfectly in her last episode, “Who the hell is Nikki?”

Kiele Sanchez, if nothing else as  Nikki Fernandez’s brief run on Lost proves one of the advantages of writing for television as opposed to movies and books. Had Lost been a single long novel or film and had Nikki and her boy-toy Paolo still showed up halfway through, the writer would have had no way of knowing that the audience would resent them so much. Because a long-running TV show can evolve, Lost writers were able to gauge fan reaction and address the problem: They killed Nikki and Paolo and did so in a rather entertaining fashion. Yes, though I was no fan of these two, I found their final episode, “Exposé,” to be immensely entertaining, wonderfully dark and all-in-all rewarding, since it ended with the Losers burying Nikki and Paolo alive. Goodbye, Losers who should not have been! (more…)

Lost, The Complete Collection, DVD & Blu-ray, Amazon

Lost:The Complete Collection, DVD & Blu-ray, Amazon

Lost: The Complete Collection, DVD & Blu-ray

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Lost: Season One

Along with Desperate Housewives, Lost was one of the two breakout shows in the fall of 2004. Mixing suspense and action with a sci-fi twist, it began with a thrilling pilot episode in which a jetliner traveling from Australia to Los Angeles crashes, leaving 48 survivors on an unidentified island with no sign of civilization or hope of imminent rescue. That may sound like Gilligan’s Island meets Survivor, but Lost kept viewers tuning in every Wednesday night–and spending the rest of the week speculating on Web sites–with some irresistible hooks (not to mention the beautiful women). First, there’s a huge ensemble cast of no fewer than 14 regular characters, and each episode fills in some of the back story on one of them. There’s a doctor; an Iraqi soldier; a has-been rock star; a fugitive from justice; a self-absorbed young woman and her brother; a lottery winner; a father and son; a Korean couple; a pregnant woman; and others. Second, there’s a host of unanswered questions: What is the mysterious beast that lurks in the jungle? Why do polar bears and wild boars live there? Why has a woman been transmitting an SOS message in French from somewhere on the island for the last 16 years? Why do impossible wishes seem to come true? Are they really on a physical island, or somewhere else? What is the significance of the recurring set of numbers? And will Kate ever give up her bad-boy fixation and hook up with Jack? (more…)

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Kiele Sanchez as Nikki Fernandez on ‘LOST’

Kiele Sanchez as Nikki Fernandez on 'LOST'

CAST of  ‘LOST’ (entire cast so far, all Season’s)

Naveen Andrews – Sayid Jarrah

Josh Holloway – James ‘Sawyer’ Ford

Daniel Dae Kim – Jin Kwon

Yunjin Kim – Sun Kwon

Evangeline Lilly – Kate Austen

Terry O’Quinn – Joh Locke

Matthew Fox – Jack Shephard

Jorge Garcia – Hugo ‘Hurley’ Reyes

Emilie de Ravin – Claire Littleton

Michael Emerson – Benjamin Linus

Dominic Monaghan – Charlie Pace

Harold Perrineau – Michael Dawson

Henry Ian Cusick – Desmond Hume

Elizabeth Mitchell – Juliet Burke

Ken Leung – Miles Straume

Madison – Vincent the Dog

Nestor Carbonell – Richard Alpert

Maggie Grace – Shannon Rutherford

Malcolm David Kelley – Walt Lloyd

Jeremy Davies – Daniel Faraday

Ian Somerhalder – Boone Carlyle (more…)