It's odd that I should have thoughts on this show because I stopped watching somewhere around the third season. Still, the first season was so good and the questions stuck with me so much that even though I stopped watching it, I kept up with the show in articles, message boards, online recaps to see if I'd ever get the closure I wanted.

I didn't

And, honestly, I wasn't expecting to. During the first season, I loved the real elements of the show. The part that I could have done without was The Smoke Monster. As it turns out, the entire show was basically about Ol' Smokey. That's not to say that the show made a mistake going that route, just that it took a turn towards towards the sci-fi genre that I wasn't interested in.

What WAS bothersome, however, was how the producers seemed to be annoyed by people wanting answers when they basically went out and campaigned for the questions. The producers tried to cop a plea that where the numbers came from didn't really matter and they compared it to finding out where the force came from in the Star Wars prequels. That's a terrible comparison because The Force was never presented as a mystery. I don't recall a moment in the original trilogy when people actively tried to discover the source of The Force or figure out its meaning. The Force was more like Superman's powers - nobody really cared how it was that he had them or what was so different about Krypton and Earth that cause it; they just wanted to see Supes save the day. The numbers, on the other hand, were constantly discussed on the show, ABC promoted the show using the numbers, and, if that wasn't enough, the producers then kept putting the numbers into the show in random places. The numbers showed up EVERYWHERE. They HAD to be important. Except they weren't.

The bottom line is that the producers figured out a good gimmick that they couldn't find a satisfying reason for so they basically tried to act like people never should have gotten into the gimmick in the first place.

I also found the Walt story intriguing and that thing was filled with unanswered questions. I also find it odd that Michael was deemed to have done wrong and forced to be a ghost on the Island because he killed people to save his son whereas Sun and Jin are allowed to cross over despite the fact that they chose to die with one another and never caring that they were orphaning their newborn child. Granted, I didn't see that episode but, from what I heard of it, it doesn't sound like it was really a heroic choice.

In the end, I have a knee jerk reflex to diss LOST, because I was so frustrated with how it went from a show I loved to a show I didn't want to actually watch but I can't really weight in on it because it just wasn't a show for me. I made the right choice to stop watching it; that doesn't mean that it wasn't good.