xhonzi said:

Lost Season 6 was a complete disappointment to me. I can't say I feel the same about Lost since.

I think Lost, which was one long serial mystery has a greater ability to 'spoil' itself. If you find the conclusion to a mystery to be lacking, it effects the way an entire story works.

This idea really came to the forfront of my mind while the wife and I were reading the Thrawn Trilogy last year. The biggest problem is that Reconstruction doesn't have the same tone as the Revolution. That's actually pretty interesting in and of itself- history has shown that the best revolutionaries often make the worst governors.

Let me take this moment to plug "Deathstalker" my favorite sci-fi novels. It's a 5-part balls to the wall space opera about revolution and a tyrranical empire... but they kill the Emperor and overthrow the corrupt government in book 3. The next two books are just what you say, the problems and compromises of trying to build a new system... only it still kicked ass.