Nikki & Paulo question.

I am pretty sure on my own that Nikki & Paulo were never on LOST , Season 1 or Season 2. Just new characters added in Season 3. Not including the flashback scenes from last week....

Have we ever seen Nikki or Paulo during either Season 1 or 2?

Thank-you.

Not that I know of, and I've watched the 1st and 2nd season many times.

I think they were extras. I'd have to watch the first episode again, but Boone asks Nikki for a pen. Has anyone checked to see if that is actually who he asked for the pen?

I watched the first EP of Season 1 again, Jack goes to see Boone trying to save Rose by blowing air into her mouth. Boone suggests to get a pen to stick in her throught while Jack carrys on trying to save Rose. Jack replies ''Yeah, good idea you go get me a pen.'' so he does, but the camera focuses on Jack breathing air into Rose's mouth. So we can't tell who Boone actually asked a pen for.

If you want you can use this stream link.
Online Video: Lost - 1x01 - Pilot | Veoh Video Network

no, Nikki and Paulo were not part of the show during seasons 1 and 2. They were added to the cast as part of season 3, and then inserted into the storyline, as if they've always been there. So the footage of them being in these scenes we've seen before has either been digitally manipulated to have them added, or been re-filmed to have them in it. I believe a little of both happened, because I doubt they'd re-film the whole crash scene again, but some of the scenes were obviously newly filmed, like when they interact with Kate talking about the key for the gun case, for example. (and parts of the crash scene were new, like interacting with a pen-searching-Boone)

It makes you wonder if they do serve another purpose. I mean what is the point of having random people on the island magically show up when we don't recall seeing them at all in seasons 1 & 2. i am really curious about the reasonings for this. They must have a greater importance that is still yet to be revealed.

I think has more to do with real life restrictions on the show. Paying extras to hang around for 3 - 4 years "in case they are needed" would be expensive. I think we were delibertly kept from seeing the majority of the Losties so that they could be gradually brought in to the main story arc at the writers choosing.

There have been critiques of the show that question the writers/producers about the background losties. Listening to the Expose podcast I got the impression that Nikki and Paulo were largely the result of addressing these questions. But it got a lot of mixed reactions, or actually mostly bad reactions. It seemed to kinda go down like this:

viewers ask hey there are supposed to be like 40 survivors how come you only ever show about 10 of them doing anything.

the show responds with Nikki and Paulo

many viewers say "who hell are these guys and why should I care"

the writers/producers are like ?? ok we attempted to give some incite on what some of the other surviors are doing and make it entertaining/interesting to watch. But the same people that complained about not showing background characters now are complaining about Nikki and Paulo. So the writers/producers are like WTF try to give people what they ask for and they don't like.

This is just my opinion and I am in no way pointing fingers at anyone here.

I think they were here to address something that happened in one of the writers lives--Kind of a revinge without actually doing anything to another person for real..Look at it,Nikki seduces a WRITER/PRODUCER,then she and Paulo rip him off!! Then horrible things happen to them..Wistiful thinking on someones part??