re: LOST is by far the best TV Series ever written

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Your whole argument boils down to, they didn't answer the questions the exact way YOU wanted them answered.

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That's not my argument. In fact, if I were them, I would have actually answered less questions because leaving a lot of mystery and discussion potential is preferable and more enjoyable. I don't have a specific way I wanted everything to be resolved. I would have been hapy with many other resolutions. My complaint is that the show began with a totally different vibe than how it ended. Of course, there were fantastical elements, but we were always given to believe that they had potentially somewhat reasonable concrete explanations outside of the realm of magic, even if those explanations were far-fetched, or even, as I've already said, left up to the viewers. What happened is (and I don't think this is even debatable from a literary perspective) they found themselves way, way up shite creek in terms of being able to draw the many divergent tangets together using the various pseudoscientific avenues they had explored. Instead of locking themselves in a room for a week with maybe some additional hired writing guns and coming up with a smart way to end it, they basically just said "frick it" and did exactly what the Greeks did when their plays were written into a corner: they lowered a "god" on a pulley over the stage, had him wave a magic wand, and poof! untangled the plot knot by just doing an end-around on it. Which deservedly is viewed as a cheap way out.