doubleofive said:
Just watch Season 1. We'll tell you what else happens.
No! Season 2 was great (for the most part). Three was a real stinker (though the finale was pretty sweet)... four had its moments and was a step back in the right direction from three... five was a lot of fun (though not flawless)... and then six came along... Damn you six! Not only was six pretty boring and uninteresting... but it took everything away from the direction the show always felt it was kind of going, and ended with another god-did-it! (a wizard did it!) Battlestar Galacticaesque ending.
Why bother making a show filled with so many mysteries, if you are just going to eventually panic and play the magical diety card as a catch all?
It was still a fun ride though. Seasons 2 and 5 were some of the most I have enjoyed a TV show in recent years.
An ending with the whole cyclical time thing going on, like it almost seemed was the case at one point, would hve been cool, even if plenty of people would have been messing their pants while screaming that they had totally predicted that one. The whole Widmore changing the rules thing, and Ben's confidence that his daughter wasn't going to die and his extreme shock when she did really fit perfectly with the idea that they had both been through more or less these same events multiple times before. Also would have explained how both men always seemed to know exactly what was going on. In the end, the "You changed the rules" bit never came to mean anything.
If some years down the road they decided to make a film based off the series which followed the mythology through in a well thought out manner, that would be pretty awesome. This show was full of really great ideas and concepts, it just bit off more than it could chew, and was severely harmed by its own popularity (I swear, the instant feedback of the internet is going to be the death of all good media), and a need to keep people guessing (apparently, about nothing).
It would be interesting to hear what J. J. Abrams original ideas for the show were. He hasn't been in creative control of it since the first season, despite his name still being attached as creator. There was also a point where the producers had said that everything that was happening would have a rational scientific explaination behind it. Would have been nice to have seen it played out that way.