Two questions for LOST fans/viewers:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. If in the final episode, they would have revealed that all the island's secrets and mysteries were attributable to a high level of midichlorian found on the island, or some explanation to that effect, would you really have been happy with the ending?

2. If the setting for LOST were not a strange and mysterious island following a plane crash, but instead--I dunno--a suburban cul de sac, and you had all the backstory lines that you had in LOST without the supernatural/mythos and plane crash element to it, would you have bothered to watch more than two episodes?

My answer to both those questions would have been "no."

True, I do think that the writers probably built up more mythos than they could ever hope to explain, but I think in the end they managed to pull it off as best as they could. Instead of throwing out some ridiculous inplausible/oversimplified explanation for all the unanswered questions, they did the writer's version of a football play action fake--they focused the last episode not on big answers (as some had expected) but rather on the humanity and mortality of the characters. In doing so, I think they managed to score a touchdown without having to desperately throw out answers to every little thing.

In other words, they were hampered by their own mystical and unapproachable creation, but pulled it off by focusing on the things that every day humans could relate to. All the mythos made the story more interesting to watch and speculate about, but in the end--everyone dies, and everyone can relate to that.

The last episode and last scenes did move me a lot, and I didn't even like the Jack character all that much.

[graywarrior]

1. May as well watch Desperate Housewives, which I gave up last year.

LOST ruled. Everyone knows it and those who do not care for it are FOOLS and they know it...LOL!

[XemaSab]

2. If I could tweak one thing

I would have had more of the answers revealed organically throughout the show.

For example, the way they explained the Adam and Eve skeletons was natural and made sense.

I wish that they had done the same for a few of the other puzzles.

I was happy with the ending, though.