Lost: What Stage is Acceptance?

At this point, I've accepted that I won't be as entertained with Lost as I have been in the past. I'm over the bitterness.

Last night focused on the two characters who were added this season, Nikki and Paolo. They haven't spoken more than about three (pointless) lines so far this year. Pretty good idea to focus a whole episode on them. And then kill them. They both are paralyzed by spiders to the point where everyone think they're dead. And they are BURIED ALIVE! I can get behind a show that buries people alive.

The producers have always maintained that Nikki and Paolo are integral to the story and play an important role in the series. Don't think we saw that last night. They were buried side-by-side. I don't remember this, but everyone found some skeletons in a cave or a hatch or something. And supposedly the skeletons might be Nikki and Paolo, because, you know, the island isn't constrained by time and stuff. Evs.

Also, there has been some discussion about Locke blowing up the sub last week. He went to the sub, opened the hatch and planted the explosives. Or did he? Next we see him, he's walking toward Jack on the dock -- and he's soaking wet. He didn't have to get in the water to plant the explosives. So the theory is that he just blew up the dock and not the sub. Well then, let's hope Locke really is a Navy commander so that he can pilot them out of there.