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

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I'm the biggest LOST fan on this site

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I don't think anyone here can come close to my obsessive love of the first two seasons, and to a lesser extent the third. Which I watched in real time, unlike almost everyone here.

My criticism of the writing does not come from a place of hate for the show; it's on my Mount Rushmore for sure. Rather, I choose to be real about what happened. The reality is they weren't expecting it to be a hit, they had little more than the pilot written when it started, they didn't know how long it would run so they didn't even have a clue as to when it would end much less where they were going until after the third season, instead of taking the ending seriously and storyboarding it all to the end once they knew they had three seasons left they still continued to add new mysteries and storylines, they didn't seriously craft an ending until the last year, and at that point, they'd weaved such a complex tale that there WAS no way to satisfactorily draw it together, so instead of treating the audience respectfully and as adults like they had for most of the run, they decided to cop out to a massive deus ex machina, sprinkle the whole thing with fairy dust and resolve what had been a heavily pseudoscientific story with cheap, sadly silly magical explanations for everything.