Why Lost hasn’t lost it
1 year, 9 months ago by AndreasRead more: Analysis, Random Thoughts
A lot of articles about how Lost has lost it are popping up lately, so when I saw that a similar critical blog post had ended up on the frontpage of Digg, I decided to take on the many complaints and show why Lost hasn’t lost it.
The complaints are addressed one by one with quotes from “Clever WoT”’s blog post.
The Lost Experience
The biggest nail in the coffin for me was the ill-conceived (and tremendously arrogant) Lost Experience. Average, busy viewers like me didn’t have the time or inclination for an optional multimedia snipe hunt. One hour a week is plenty, and besides, I figured anything important would surely be revealed within the show itself.
Instead, after sticking carefully to the show for two seasons, I discovered that many of the questions I had been pondering were answered in between seasons in The Lost Experience. In order to get up to speed, I had to read an online FAQ about what was revealed in the course of the game (easily the least fulfilling plot experience of my life).
While I agree that The Lost Experience in itself could have been better, the fact is that we don’t know if it actually has anything do with the Lost storyline. If I’m not mistaken, the producers have even said that everything important will be shown on the show.
The Lost Experience could have revealed things about the island and The Dharma Initiative which we will learn later on in the Lost story, but it’s also possible that The Lost Experience was an independent story simply created to entertain the hardcore fans and create some buzz.
In Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof’s favorite graphic novel Watchmen, there is a story within the story in the form of a comic book about pirates called “Black Freighter”. Pages from the comic book are seen throughout Watchmen and if combined, make up a story of their own.
Maybe “Lost” is the story within “The Lost Experience”, maybe it’s the other way around, or maybe I’m wrong and they are both part of the same story. Either way, I don’t think it is necessary to know a thing about The Lost Experience to enjoy Lost. If you didn’t enjoy following it, then you shouldn’t have done so.
Stupid Producers
On the topic of the producers being idiots, let’s turn to their inability to understand the strengths of their own show. Here’s an instructive quote from producer Carlton Cuse:
“We don’t allow the characters to focus on the mythology. But when we sit down and we work on the stories, we’re primarily spending most of our time talking about these characters and how they interact. And I think that if the characters became focused on the mythology, a lot of people would drop out. I think there’s a much larger audience that’s much more interested in “Who is Kate going to choose?” than the details about who Alvar Hanso is.”
Maybe there is a “much larger” audience that cares about a clumsy, cliche love triangle than an innovately mysterious island, but I seriously doubt it. My interest in Lost, like many people’s, was centered around the “mythology” and not the ham-fisted characters. I like character development more than most, but a show like Lost needs to keep its characters well-rooted in what is central to the show: the mystery.
Lost is a mysterious show and needs to stay true to that, because let’s face it, there already are too many Desperate Housewives and “Gray’s Anatomies. What you need to understand is that Lost is a character-driven drama about mythology, mysteries and basic questions like life, death and survival. It is necessary to develop the characters on a personal level for us to care about what’s happening to them.
If all the characters did was run around in the jungle shooting at the Others, investigating hatches and playing Sherlock Holmes all day, we wouldn’t care when Ethan almost killed Charlie, when Shannon or Boone were killed or when a crying Kate was forced to leave Jack with The Others two episodes ago.
The producers aren’t stupid. They know exactly what do to create a emotionally engaging and suspenseful drama. I agree that it wouldn’t hurt if the characters talked a bit more about the mythology though.
Characters
If the producers turn all of their efforts toward turning Lost into a Passions-like soap opera, then why, pray tell, are all of their characters crap?
Jack has trouble with relationships. We get it. We’ve gotten it since the first season. Message received. The flashbacks started as an interesting storytelling device, but quickly devolved into just another way to hold back on as much of the plot as possible. Now, we get multiple flashbacks with the same “character development.”
Look, Kate’s a manipulator who always runs from her problems! Look, she did it this other time! Oh look, it gets her into trouble a lot! Oh my gosh, it happened again, and it totally parallels what’s happening on the island! Flat characters make for boring TV.
So that fact that characters behave according to their personality makes them flat? The characters do develop and they do overcome their obstacles, but they often do that in the island storyline. Besides telling us about the characters’ past, the flashbacks help illustrate why the characters react like they do on the island. If the characters resolved their problems in the flashbacks there wouldn’t be any point in showing them since they would be irrelevant to the plot on the island.
Tell me another show where we learn as much about the characters as we do on Lost? On almost every other show we only know as much about the characters as we see in the straightforward storylines, but on Lost, we have the combination of the island storyline and flashback information and as a result we learn a lot about the characters.
Compare Jack to any character on CSI, Desperate Housewives, 24 or even Heroes and you will discover that you know a lot more about the characters on Lost.
As for the characters being boring, say what you want, but personally I think a con-man who has become the man he hates, a former altar boy who has become a drug addicted rock star and a former manager at a box company who couldn’t walk but is now running around in the jungle with a big knife searching for his destiny, are some pretty great characters.
Plot Holes
Stop giving excuses and start giving answers. I’m not talking about wrapping up all the big mysteries, but for crying out loud, give us something. With so many completely unanswered questions about the island, there’s no reason every episode shouldn’t contain half a dozen new, tantalizing tidbits of information. Go back to Black Rock, show Jack’s dad again, give us anything. You can berate people for lack of patience, but the bottom line is that a compelling plot needs to have constant motion. And instead you gave us Sawyer and Kate fucking in a bear cage for three episodes.
Last week we found out what happened to Desmond when he turned the failsafe key. We’ve found out a lot about The Others. We learned what Kate did. We have discovered Rousseau’s daughter Alex. We know how Juliet became an Other.
A lot of questions are answered all the time, but as soon as they are answered everyone forgets about them and screams “where are the answers!?”.
How to fix it
Kill Jack. Kill Kate. Kill Nicki and Paolo (or whatever) and never, ever, ever make such a grade school attempt to introduce new characters again. Make Charlie interesting again instead of the whiny, jealous infant he became. Don’t screw up Desmond. Cripple Locke and bring back his mystic bent. Let Sayid loose. More Sun & Jin. Make Sawyer say something besides “offensive attention-getter, unimaginative nickname. Sarcastic comment and/or question.” Oh, and maybe explain where Danielle is after all this time.
I’m sure no one would complain if Nikki and Paulo died, but personally I’m hoping that there was a point in introducing them. Maybe they are Others or they have some other purpose, either way, I’m willing to wait to find out.
Killing Kate and Jack proves that you have no idea what you are talking about since Lost would lose a large part of the audience if they died. Besides, they are great characters.
Are you actually watching Lost? They already made Charlie interesting again by having Desmond explain that Charlie is going to die. Now he doesn’t just have to take care of Claire and the baby, but he has to do so while knowing that the grim reaper has put a price on his head.
Get the Others jacked into the mythology again instead of turning them into a Melrose Place-style tangent. Let the characters talk, explore, and care even remotely about why everything is so bizarre, and let them LEARN SOMETHING. Go back to Black Rock. Try to explore the security system’s infrastructure. Go to the other stations intentionally instead of accidentally. Give us something about Walt and Michael after they left. Give us serious internal conflict between the “names” and the “no-names.” Aren’t they sick of sitting around on a beach while Jack and Co. fight pirates and polar bears? Bring on Lord of the Flies mayhem.
I’ve already addressed part of this, so let’s go straight to exploring the security system. I don’t want to to into spoiler territory, but I can almost guarantee that the security system and other hatches WILL BE intentionally explored. Locke even said that he was planning to go to the Flame station. These things will happen, but you need to have some patience, everything can’t happen at once.
Regarding conflicts between “names and no-names”, that was the reason why they introduced Nikki and Paulo, and I thought you didn’t like them?
It will never happen. The producers’ explanations of their goals for the show make it very clear that they are hellbent on ruining everything that was compelling about it. They don’t have the imagination or skill to pull it all off and, on top of all of that, they have also made it clear that they disdain the majority of their audience. So, despite its potential, “Lost” is halfway down the spiral and never returning. I suggest you follow myself and 10 million other viewers by turning your back now before the producers waste more of your time.
So the fact that the producers are going against the system to get ABC to set an end date for Lost to make sure that the story doesn’t get dragged out is bad? The fact that they are trying to please both the hardcore mythology focused fans and those who prefer the character interactions is bad?
The eight episodes so far in Season 3 have been great, and if anything, the last two have proven that the Lost writing team have both the skill and imagination to create very exciting television.
Update: Clever WoT has posted a reply answering my reply.
Comment 1, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
Also, we’ve gotten some really awesome hints in Season 3 to the larger mysteries - what “The Cost of Living” revealed about the monster was, to me, extremely cool and very interesting to think about.
Comment 2, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
I absolutely agree with your essay man!
Comment 3, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
The critics are right.
The fact that “The Lost Experience” is so clearly undefined makes it one huge mistake. Is it canon? Does it reveal mythology aspects not seen on the show? Is it even connected with the show? Thes being unanswered just point out one of the huge flaws in Lost.
Heroes 360 and the graphic novels do it in a much better way. Everything in those are explained in someway through the show and add nothing more than a little extra flair for the characters.
The point about the characters was not a complaint that they have a personality adn behavoe according to it. Its that we don’t need to see multiple flashbacks that basically say the same thing. We got it the first time, it defined her character and epxlains why she behaves a certain way in the present time. The only point in it being there is to eat up time or explain to new viwers who might have missed the first one. If it adds nothing extra than don’t put it in.
And yes some questions are answered, but how many are the big important ones? And everytime they answer one, its only because they just gave us 4 new questions. Each season should have answered (by its finale) most of the very large questions, leaving one or two to linger to next season.
As it is, people are only hanging onto Lost right now in hopes of getting some sort of Season 1 questions answered, and when they don’t get them the’ll stop watching and this season will be the last.
If they wanted a show that has a set timeline they could have done it much better. Hereoes is an improvement, but even shows liek babylon 5 did it better than Lost.
Comment 4, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
The problem is that everyone wants to know the answers to the big questions: the monster, the numbers, the healing powers of the island, the others and the darma initiative. But the producers have made it clear that we’ve just gotten through the mid-point of the series, the rest will all be winding up. The thing is, these BIG questions are the whole point of the show…once they are answered, the show is over. So, theoretically, they won’t be fully answered til the very end, which is why the producers assured us that the series would in in about two more seasons.
Comment 5, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
dozenz wrote:
It’s pretty obvious that The Lost Experience is canon. Arguably, the only “important” piece of information that came out of the Lost Experience was the Valenzetti Equation. Even without knowing about this, however, you can easily appreciate the show.
Personally, I am getting a bit tired of Jack’s flashbacks. This week will be his ninth flashback, and I really think that we know as much about Jack as we need to right now, and that focusing on other characters is what the producers need to do now. But I’m no producer, and I trust that they know what they’re doing. Hopefully this Jack’s tattoo thing will tie in well. I have confidence that they know what’s going on.
Lost is an amazing show. It’s very hard to keep the balancing act of the mythology and the characters, and what you really need for this show is patience. This isn’t “That 70’s Show.” If you’re not up to thinking about your television, you probably shouldn’t watch Lost anyway.
Great post, Andreas.
Comment 6, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
What alot of people that critique LOST forget is that less than 3 months have passed on the island to date! Yet … we have been clued in to nearly 3 years worth of “things going on” that have something to do with the people on the island and the REASON they act the way they do and why some of them are there.
It angers me that some watchers want this to be a 2 hour movie rather than a television series.
Now, I am growing impatient … I have to say that honestly - but it’s become part of the show and the experience of the show. I’m enjoying every episode thoroughly!
Comment 7, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
Lost hasn’t lost it, but I’m glad that other people think it has!
My biggest fear with Lost was always that, due to its immense popularity, the folks at ABC would stretch it out until it became a sad parody of its former, awesome self.
Now, with perhaps-dwindling popularity (although I think Lost’s still quite popular), and the producers talking about setting an end-date, I feel like there’s very little danger of my fear coming true. Lost will end on its own terms, critics be damned, and it will be appreciated for years to come in its best medium–DVD.
Comment 8, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
I agree with many of the “pro-show” comments… to reveal the “big answers” would be to end the story! As much as they might not like it, people DO need to be more patient and let the story unfold. It seems to me that a lot of people bailed in/after season 2, in that the big questions of the first season weren’t answered, and more mysteries appeared. But again, if you’re looking at a show of 5-7 seasons, how can you reveal the major answers in the second season?
IMO, Lost is the most intelligent fiction on tv. It appears that many people aren’t interested in intelligent fiction that tests you and refuses to give you what you want “now!”. Personally, that’s what makes it all the more appealing.
Comment 9, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
While I do find the show a bit frustrating at times, I think the notion of “too much character development” is simply ridiculous. Great stories need great characters. As was stated in the essay rebuttal, we wouldn’t really care about what was happening to these people if they didn’t mean anything to us (e.g. Paolo and Nikki). I think the show is finding a nice balance between moving the plot along and delving deeper into the character’s backgrounds to create motivation and purpose for the storylines.
Comment 10, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
WOW! That was a post! It’s fascinating how LOST is understood and yet misunderstood on so many levels by those who used to like it and those of us who still do. Here’s my take on the various points Andreas and Clever WoT said. Before I get into that, I’d just like to point out Clevers assessment on TPTB is completely inaccurate.
The Lost Experience – I think it was just a way to keep everyone interested. I don’t think it has anything to do with the current (or future) story line of LOST. What it DID do, like the numerous easter eggs found on LOST, was give an underlying/background explanation of certain aspects of LOST, like the numbers and who the Hanso Foundation might be and their relationship with the Dharma initiative. While I feel that some of this could have been explained on the show, it may not be where they are going with this thus their decision to not include it w/in the show. Juliet’s assertion that Dharma (and perhaps Hanso) was a long time ago, leads me to believe this. Still, I think that the resulting film/end game could have easily shown up to be viewed by our LOSTIES and thus given the audience an “OMG they DO need to save the worldâ€, as well as at least give closure to the numbers. TPTB have said on record (though I am finding they go back on their word sometimes) that they probably will never explain what the numbers mean (yet they put them practically everywhere) and I think that is a disservice to the audience who have been frothing at the mouth for that nugget of information. Other “BIG†mysteries like The Black Rock, The Wire that went into the Ocean, 4-Toed Statue, who is Henry Gale, I fear may never get answered.
Stupid Producers – Gosh, where do I start with this one. Um the Producers, Writers, etc aka TPTB are some of the smartest/creative people in TV right now. The writing, dialogue, and filming are top notch IMO. They care deeply about the show and I feel are trying to do their very best to get out the best show that they possibly can. The fact that there is so much symbolism and reference, shows the amount of detail they spend on the show. There maybe a misstep here and there i.e. the intro of Paulo and Niki, but for the most part it is very compelling. I do think that ABC is forcing TPTB to tinker unwisely with the show. I think the move to less mythology and more action and romance was not a good one. The core audience doesn’t care about that, and I for one was applauding the show that it was devoid of romance. This was a move to stop the audience from bleeding off. That said, I too wish that the characters would be shown to interact more. I think it is understood that they might (I think a lot of things are meant to “understood†though they are not being shown), but it is deemed perhaps too dull. I think the silence between the characters has created this stigma of “why don’t they say what happened to the rest of the Lostiesâ€. We know that they must talk, but to show it every now and then (esp the BIG stuff like Sun shooting one of the others and the taking of the boat, heck even “Hey there’s a 4-toed statue out there tooâ€) would be good.
Characters – This is a tough one, because everyone has a different opinion and favorite character. Where as I liked hatch Locke and felt it was a natural progression for this character (even he got frustrated pushing the button he thought was important) though many did not. I do think there are too many characters right now. It is not only hard to show our old favorites with any meaning, but new ones are being introduced very hastily. Not only that but there have been very few episodes this Season that have featured all or most of the characters in one episode. Thus we’ve had some very siloed episodes featuring very few of the characters. Personally, I don’t think any of the characters are bad and I disagree with Clever’s assessment that we liked the characters more when we didn’t know about them. I do agree with his assessment regarding some of the flashbacks especially when it adds nothing new to the character nor the story at hand. Seriously, we DO NOT NEED another Kate flashback. I am even skeptical regarding this week with Jack’s as this makes his 6th or 7th (though this next one looks to get past the Father/Ex Wife plot…I suppose they “let it go†LOL). I am just saying that if the FB offers nothing new, concentrate on another character or here’s a novel thought…Don’t do a flashback. Flashback mechanisms are normally used in TV to show something significant or as a point of reference the audience needs. LOST uses it differently. In the beginning it was novel, now it takes up screen time. By now, we ought to have at least seen a FB with Ben, Rousseau, Paulo/Niki and maybe Alex or Tom. I understand that Libby’s death was to underscore Ana’s and to make the audience care…but talk about a wasted opportunity. She not only didn’t get a FB, but it appears we won’t see her this season at all (not to mention the inevitable “What was the point of the tail section folks if you killed them all†Many fans felt cheated by following a story line in which all the characters end up dead). I won’t even mention how much screen time Jack/Kate/Sawyer received in the first 6 episodes on top of their own flashbacks that really offered nothing new.
Plot Hole’s - Again unnecessary bashing of TPTB. And this is not really about Plot Holes either, but lack of answers. I agree we get answers all the time. I also think those answers are given very vaguely and are left to interpretation. The only time TPTB come out to clear anything up, is when the majority of the audience is not sure what exactly happened and are starting to speculate in the wrong way i.e.Jae’s suicide. I am not saying they need to dumb it up, but they need to simplify it more…make the answer more obvious. Desmond’s episode is a perfect example. I am sure TPTB think they provided an answer, yeah if you have knowledge of Quantum Physics, or do hunting on the internet as to what it might mean. I’m willing to bet a majority of people have no idea there is a time/space thing going on, because it was in the Easter eggs from the Juliet’s episode. In terms of actual plot holes, I think there simply isn’t enough time in an hour to come back to some of the things they’d like to. Again, I refer to my theory of no-flashback episodes, so that they CAN get back to the Black Rock, can Explore Rousseau more…etc. It isn’t going to happen, but it may be a way to get back to the cool things we have seen on LOST. Does anyone think we will ever see the 4-toed statue again?
Us vs Them - Not sure what Clever is getting at here. The only reason I think LOST has lost viewers is because it has not gone where they wanted it to go, but has gone in places they have no reference to. Like Twin Peaks, this show is completely original and thus, one needs to think outside the box a bit. I do think that there are too many questions and not enough payoff on them, well not immediate payoff. More like long drawn out payoffs. Most shows will resolve in someway an issue on one episode on the very next, where as with LOST you got to wait weeks to get your answer, if it ever comes. Like Patchy. We see him and we get this big OMG moment (goosebumps and all). When we get the answer of who he is? It took a full season to show the Polar Bears again…but did we get any answer with them? We got a Pearl Station shirt and a toy truck…OH and that they can abduct people with out causing much bodily harm. We didn’t get the answer of where they came from or why.
How to fix it – Certainly killing off main characters one doesn’t like is not the way to fix it. Personally, I don’t think it needs fixing. I think there were a few things that have hurt the show. The hiatus they say we wanted (when we only wanted a straight run of more than 5 episodes, which magically seemed to happen to all of ABC’s shows this year), the move to 10pm, killing off everything that was decent on Wednesday nights (including Day Break which was supposed to retain the audience…and the promise of LOST moments was WEAK).
LOST is not the perfect show, and I don’t think such an show exists or ever existed. We are dealing with a show that by all intents and purposes brought back scripted TV. The themes and underlying mythology of the show are well thought out and executed. The dialogue for the most part is top notch and rich with meaning. The filming in unlike I have ever seen in a TV Show. The symbolism and the creation of it’s own unique elements is really unmatched for TV. Maybe just a bit heady for most of it’s audience (and television), but by and large one of the best things on TV right now (and in Television’s history) and is certainly raising the bar for the future of TV
Comment 11, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
NEW FAD: Complaining about LOST.
I really don’t understand why people complain about it so much. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. There are plenty of shows I don’t like. I don’t complain about them, I just don’t watch them. Maybe since they don’t understand it they are frustrated and the only way to feel good is by making fun of it.
Its a good show. And its getting better. And even if you don’t try to think about it intellectually and search out more info on your own, its still extremely entertaining to watch for an hour a week. Or you can do the “popular” thing and just trash it instead of enjoying it.
Comment 12, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
The main problem is: people is in hurry to get answers. simply, they haven’t understood yet the nature and the structure of the show. they are starving because of the lack of answers, and they claim the right to have them. they do not care about how wonderfully built the entire thing is. this stupid pragmatism is irritating.
the show isn’t yours, folks. it is being offered to you, you are putting yourself into the hands of the authors when you watch it: you’ll have the sacred right to be angry with them when they fool you, but only when the thing is over. let them tell their story, let yourself enjoy it without useless expectations (only the useless ones). there’s no space (or time, considering the latest events of the series :-D) for democracy or in arts or story-telling.
Comment 13, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
Great comment downthehatch! I’d write more of a reply, but I think I said what I needed to say in the post, hehe.
Comment 14, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
The person that wrote that original slag-fest is a douche. Watching him trying to make solid points is like watching a dog chase it’s tail.
Comment 15, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
I think you are wrong guy. You are trying to make valid points but you are failing. I want the show to work. I loved the first two seasons. I want to keep watching but the show is garbage right now. It is nothing short of horrible. Time to take the new coke idea. Give us something good to start, then change it to crap, then bring back the original to make us salivate like trained dogs.
Comment 16, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
does anyone think that Micheal and Walt might be on the Other’s Island? The end of season 2, Ben told Micheal to head 325 degrees. This is north exactly were the Other’s Island is. Any thoughts?
Comment 17, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
shawdawg32 wrote:
You could be right, but personally I don’t think so.
Besides, Harold Perrineau who plays Michael has been cast in another show so we might not see him for a while.
Comment 18, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
Great post, and I’m glad to see someone criticizing my arguments in a way that rises beyond “your attention span is too short.”
I started writing a quick response, but it turned into another novel. Sorry about that. There are a few things we agree on, and I think ultimately what it comes down to is that I’ve grown to dislike how the writers handled the characters and you don’t.
Here’s the post: Lost Has Lost It, Dagnabit
Comment 19, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
Excellent post. My God, I agree with everything you said. I am sick of people hating on this show. My opinion is that Lost has given new life to television. It asks it’s viewers to think instead of just sit back and be entertained. Anyone who says Lost has lost it, SUCKS!!!
Comment 20, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
Amazing post. Succint, to-the-point, clear…
… it’s so beautiful I’m nearly crying.
Comment 21, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
We made this cool LOST/The Office trailer mash-up for this week’s Office episode directed by J.J. Abrams.
Hope you like it:
LOST in the Office
Comment 22, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
Good read. Another good article taking the naysayers to ask was posted by DocArzt on thetailsection.com a few days back. He made a lot of good points, but one in particular really resonated with me: he compares Lost to a good novel. And when reading a good novel, one doesn’t expect answers to key mysteries and plotlines in the first or second third of the book. Considering we’re at the 60-episode mark, and they want the show to run roughly 100 episodes, we’re just getting over the halfway hump. We’re at chapter 6 in a 12-chapter book.
They’re starting to answer the major questions… we’ve seen indications of that in the past two episodes.
Personally, I also think one reason we haven’t seen some of the answers we expect, and consequently feels like things are being withheld or dragged out, is that they aren’t the answers we expect. It may be the case that they are all tied together, and there is a solution to the puzzle that we haven’t even contemplated yet… something so revolutionary or bizarre that it will completely change our perception of the show, and some of the individual answers can’t be explained outside of ruining that.
They also may be doing what many other classic works have done: leaving things open to the viewer’s interpretation. :) Of course, our ADD-riddled, tell-me-what-to-think culture won’t like that very much…
Comment 23, posted 1 year, 9 months ago - Quote and reply
I’m willing to be patient for revelations, but so far my experience has been that the revelations have been let-downs. There are such great mysteries, but their answers are often disappointing.
Comment 24, posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago - Quote and reply
The sad fact is that the big questions people complain about not being answered will NEVER be answered. I’m sure of it. When this show ends, the numbers, the synchronicity amongst the characters (before they ended up on the island), the island’s magical powers, all of that will be chalked up to fate or the paranormal.
It will be a very cheap ending, but fans of this lazy series will be blinded by all the subtext (which ultimately will mean nothing), that they won’t care.
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