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Originally Posted by khalleron
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.
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Sorry, but 'not wanting to spoonfeed answers' is the lamest excuse ever for failing to provide answers to the mysteries which kept the viewers hooked.
It's like Agatha Christie writing a murder mystery full of tantalising clues and then you get to the final chapter and the whole thing skips to the entire cast of characters in the afterlife magically 'resolving their issues' and there's an authors note claiming all the clues are there, she didn't want to spoonfeed you an ending, go work it out .......
It's pretty clear that most of the stuff they put up there on screen to keep our attention just plain didn't have an answer and expecting fans to creatively come up with their own solutions because the writers couldn't is a joke.
As for the whole show 'being about the characters', if it
was then it was some of the worst writing ever for a supposedly character based show. There was very little real development and some of the scripting was embarrassing. The whole 'Love' angle was just about the worst implemented I've seen in any mainstream show - case in point Des and Penny. Corny and unconvincing lines from the writers and no real chemistry from the actors.
A few of the characters developed somewhat (Sawyer and Ben stand out) but given they had
six seasons to progress the main cast, the overall development of the key characters came up short. Perhaps if they hadn't kept on introducing new characters and killing off people seemingly at random they could have done a better job on the character development front.
The fact that they had to pull an 'alternative universe afterlife' out of the hat at the very end where all the main characters could magically find resolution to their issues (why bother writing it - just have them have a flash of peace in the afterlife and all is suddenly well) just shows that they had no idea how to develop characters.
Even when they gave answers it seemed they couldn't bother writing them properly. The numbers and the sickness - very sketchy, they needed more detail there. The Whispers - decent answer but delivered in an awful manner (simple bit of exposition) and had no real relevance to the rest of the story. Same with the appearances of Christian being explained. The whole mythology of Smokey/Jacob in that thoroughly awful 'Beyond the Sea' episode - don't get me started.
Did these writers never hear of Chekhov's gun? Seems to be the case.