Still my favorite episode of the series. Yes, it is a stand-alone that adds little or nothing to the overall story, but it is outstanding in every way.
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"Expose": I gave it a 10. That's the difference between you and me.
I never got the hate for Expose. Was it just the sometimes irrational and over the top hatred of all things Nikki and Paulo that caused so much hate towards Expose? There's legitimate reasons to dislike Expose. I think some just went a little over board.
I think the hatred for Expose' is because people saw it as an "irrelevant" episode that had nothing to do with the entire series of LOST -- not just those two characters -- which is why Expose' hate is (in my opinion) so hilarious in retrospect.