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Originally Posted by 4-eyes
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 .......
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But Lost
wasn't a Christie novel, where the story depends on putting together the clues to solve a mystery... it only
masqueraded as a mystery story, when it was really always about the voyage of the characters. The title really did say it all (and hinted at its religious overtones right off... I remember how much I wanted the very last words on the screen at the end to replace "Lost" with "Found." Kitschy, I know, but still.)
Much of this discussion keeps bringing me back to
The Prisoner, a series which experienced very similar issues with viewers either ignoring the point of the show by obsessing with details like "What is that beachball-thing, anyway?" to not understanding the conclusion--which, if you got the point of the show, was blindingly clear and obvious.
The fact that some of the mechanics of the island weren't answered precisely is really not the point of the series at all. I can envision another series, another type of show other than character-voyage-driven, exploring and answering some or all of those mechanics. But I don't fault
Lost for not having done that, as it was never supposed to be that kind of show.