Sorry, but I completely disagree with all the loving on
Lost, particularly the "How dare the fans be disgusted?" part of it.
If the producers had said right from the beginning that the show was just being made up as they went along, and that we shouldn't think about it too hard, then no harm, no foul.
But week after week on the podcast, they said that there was an answer for everything. They said to pay attention to the clues, because they would add up.
And the clues didn't add up.
Nothing added up. The writers didn't even try to make a coherent story. They just lied about it for years and years. And then they have the nerve to play the "How dare anyone pick on us?" card.
If the writers tell me that they're making a slapstick comedy and then they give me a historical tragedy, then yeah, I'm gonna be puzzled by that. If they tell me they're making a nature documentary and they give me a Broadway musical, then I'm going to say, "What was
that all about?"
And if they're making a mystery, and they tell me to pay attention to the clues, and they don't make even a marginal attempt to make even the big questions make any sense at all, then yeah, I'm gonna be pretty hacked off at them for wasting
six years of my time.
Mind you, it's not like I think about it every day and care all that much anymore. And if you got greater entertainment value out of it than I did, then more power to you.
It's the whole "What's the matter with the fans? How dare they expect resolution from a mystery?" argument that I just don't get.
OK, now
my rant is over.