For the record, I loved the ending of Lost. It was a series about the mystery of life and how we each come to terms with our own "answer" to that mystery, and the finale honored that theme well. The mysteries of the series were about more than just what looked cool or got people hooked, although that was certainly a part. Lost's mysteries were representative of life's mysteries, and the myths we tell ourselves to make sense of the confusing and oftentimes overwhelming world we find ourselves in. I'd go more deeply into that here, but I don't want to lecture, or spoil things for Frink and anyone who's still watching the series. Part of life is accepting that not everything has an answer. I get it: some people don't want to watch a TV show like that. If a gun is brought out in Act 1, they want to see it used by Act 3. I understand that, and for those people, Lost must've been disappointing. But for me, I found the analogues to real life -- to the struggle of searching for answers and accepting or rejecting what we find -- to be extremely poignant and well-executed most of the time. I'd say 90% of the mysteries introduced in the series have either explicit or implicit answers, and of the other 10%, I'd say less than half can really boil down to writer/producer incompetence or negligence. Lost was modern mythology, and like all universal mythology, its answers were not as easy to come by or as immediately obvious as they would be on a simple TV show.

Lost was not a perfect series by any means, but I think it succeeded quite well at what it set out to do, which was tell an extremely interesting myth about the human condition that repeatedly challenges and thwarts its viewers' expectations.