Hey, if "The Sopranos" and "No Country For Old Men" can end without real resolutions and still have audiences sucking it up eagerly, why wouldn't they continue the trend?

It's the Emperor's New Shows.

The problem is not that the Lost writers will not answer all the questions posed.

The problem is with viewers who don't understand the idea of a posed question functioning as a way to illustrate a theme.

Sometimes a question is there for the viewer to answer for themselves. Art and scripted drama's ability to make us look within ourselves in this way is exactly what makes it so inherent to our culture.

Also, I'm not convinced that the people who's job is to make sure that this IP turns as high of a profit as possible aren't thinking of some future ways to milk this by drawing out some things left unresolved.

Wow! Looks like Losties just got assfucked. This is me after the first episode six years ago "It's gotta be time traveling dead ghost aliens from the future sent by the government". Cause that's all it could rationally be right? So I stopped watching after 2 episodes and six years later I'm three for five. I think the producers of Lost hoped everyone didn't watch sixth sense or something.

Agreed.

I had once watched Alias somewhat regularly, and when I realized that none of the questions in that show would ever be answered (the final season confirmed it), and that the writers were as clueless as the viewers, I knew that Lost would provide the same sense of delayed dissatisfaction.

I also watched two, maybe three episodes of Lost before re-evaluating that my future time would be better wasted doing something else.

It was all a dream! See St. Elsewhere and Newhart.

I think Lost's real legacy will be of betrayal. Betrayal to their fanatic loyal fans who've been promised shangri-la but will arrive at a concentration camp of ideas. No way are they going to answer any of these questions. Instead of one macguffin that a show usually dispenses Lost uses a thousand and at the end it will be a Deus Ex Machina literary license black hole of no escape. No one will ever trust an ambitious scifi Mystery again. X-files started it, Alias and Heroes bridged it and Lost will definitely close the lid on these types of shows. Too much investment and not enough payoff. It's basically the serious family guy but instead of random pop culture references it utilizes random scifi mumbo jumbo that at the end of the day makes no sense whatsoever. It's only saving grace is good acting and good direction but I need meat. And meat is story. If at the end, The smoke monster turns into rober rabbit and farts it would still be within the Lost universe. It's gonna be chocolate.

go watch law & order, they answer all of your questions in 44 minutes.

Sawyer is the new Jacob.