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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
RB, I'm frustrated because the best way to tell a story is to combine answers with new questions.
Re-watch Season 1. Every episode you learned something CONCRETE about the island and people while at the SAME TIME being tantalized with new information and new possibilities.
The only concrete thing we learned this episode happened in the first 5 minutes when we found out that the Others have a nice little camp where they have tea and make crumpets and have book clubs about old Stephen King novels, i.e. they're even more normal than we thought. I'm not looking for a "SECRETS OF THE ISLAND REVEALED" moment, but I am looking for some give and take. I tire of a show that requires constant, unyielding faith that eventually the writers will "Make it all make sense" without giving me any reason to believe that they won't draw this out right up until the show is cancelled.
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Yeah, but you know the greater risk is that the show will be forced to stay on longer than the plot was designed for. The producers have promised that they have a five or six season plot arc in mind, but it's so popular that there's little chance ABC will let them end the series gracefully--it's almost certain to get drawn out beyond the natural ending point. At which point, the producers have all promised they'll walk away from the show. So that's the only point at which I'll be willing to say it's jumped the shark. Until then, I enjoy the show enough exactly as it is and has been that I'm willing to play along with whatever multi-year-long path they're taking me on.
They've really learned from the Twin Peaks Syndrome, where the network, bowing to public pressure, forced David Lynch to cough up an ending to the central plot of the series early in the second season, and then refused to let them stop making episodes. Most of the second season was pure dreck as a result. Once you know who killed Laura Palmer, who gives a good god damn about saving the pine weasel?
I don't really know what it is about LOST that calls for such second-guessing on the part of many viewers, but I hear this all the time. "Oh, I love it, it's the best show on TV, but they'd better not screw the fans over." I mean, I can understand that I guess, but what about just enjoying what they give you? It's a TV show, for crying out loud.