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Originally Posted by 4-eyes
Interesting to see how opinions are panning out here in a generally unbiased forum. In a few others I have read there are a rather large number of "OMG - THIS WAS THE BEST SHOW EVER AND THE FINALE WAS AMAZING" type posters. In real life however, everyone I know who watched it was disappointed with it.
Bottom line - I wasted six years following this show for almost zero payoff? As said elsewhere in the thread, they could have gone straight from Season 1 to Season 6 and it would have made for a better show. Essentially seasons 2,3,4 and 5 were completely irrelevant to the overall plot and even stuff from season 1 was never really answered. The writers filled the show to the brim with mysteries and hints of bigger plots yet pretty much failed to deliver, despite knowing well in advance when it would finish.
I'm extremely disappointed. I would advise anyone of thinking of watching the show not to waste their time as there is no resolution to most of what you will see - however intriguing it might be at the time.
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Well, let me jump in and disagree, then.
I have to admit, I first started watching the show because of it's religious overtones - the first ep I watched all the way through was 'The Moth', and I was hooked forever.
LOST has made me read books I never would have read, think about things I never would have thought about, but I knew it was a religious show all along, so the last season was pretty much the producers ripping off the sci-fi mask and going 'Ha!' I can understand why those who thought they were watching sci-fi were disappointed, I really do, but that you didn't realize in six years of watching what the nature of the show was I find kind of weird.
As to the 'mysteries', I will argue that they answered pretty much all of them, if you paid attention and put
pi and
x together. That they didn't spoon-feed us the answers is one of the reasons I loved the show, and intend a great big re-watch this summer.
YMMV.