The article is totally irrelevant to viewers like me.

I've watched the series faithfully for each season and I'm losing patience. I'm seriously considering not watching it anymore, once the final episode this season ends. I've just about had it.

Why? A few posters have already mentioned this, but I'll say it in my own way:

I'M FED UP WITH THE CONSTANT REFUSAL OF CHARACTERS ON THIS SHOW WHO SUPPOSEDLY ARE TRYING TO HELP EACH OTHER SURVIVE AND GET OFF THIS ISLAND REFUSE TO TELL THEIR FELLOW SURVIVORS ABOUT IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES THEY NEED TO KNOW.

I'm sick and tired of people asking "why?" "what?" and just getting cryptic, blank answers. Even to the simplest questions. Every little thing is overdrawn to be some huge secret.

Last week was close to the last straw for me:

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY the castaways get fed up and confront Jack. Why the hell it took them so freaking LONG to do this is beyond me. But FINALLY they confront him and demand an explanation as to why the hell he's refused to talk to them about what he knows and what he went thru. If it were me, I would've been furious as my supposed group leader who's been gone for days, imprisoned by the enemy, and now keeps himself separate from our group while schmoozing with some mysterious woman from the enemy camp. I would've demanded explanations NOW, not just meekly accepted him back into the fold.

So they finally confront him and the truth comes out. And Sayid asks Jack "why didn't you tell us?" And Jack says--now just wait for it!--"because I didn't know what to do about it yet." So he couldn't TALK to a few select trusted members of the group to help him decide, NO! The great leader had to keep all the info to himself so as to make all the important decisions all by himself, and choosing the time in which he deign to inform his subjects about his important decision.

The reaction by everyone? Anger, frustration, outrage, even some annoyance? No! Not even Sayid!

Everyone just takes that as an explanation -- they just passively accept that Jack keeps critical information from them for DAYS and comes to important decisions all by himself. Sayid even later says that he "respects" the reason why Jack kept the information from him.

I am fast losing interest in all these stupid little mysteries that keep coming up because the castaways seem perfectly happy with just being kept out of the loop by their fellow castaways.

And as to those mysteries...there comes a point at which there are so many of them, with several old ones still being unaddressed, that you lose track and you lose curiosity. I'm not a viewer who trawls thru LOST fan websites (or the official website) and gets involved in all the theorizing, speculating, yadayadayada. I just watch the show once a week, that's it. I shouldn't have to keep some sort of encyclopedia in my head about a TV show.

And right now I feel like the show is totally aimless, pointless, contradictory, overly-convoluted, capricious --- and that the castaways are a bunch of zombies without any brains whatsoever.

Not even the Arsenal-Barca match last year (two teams that play the most open, positive, expansive, attractive football in the sport) could do more than foul, shoot long balls, go for set pieces and shut each other down. The 2005 final seems to be fluke in the modern era's endless insistence on anti-football. Good football can no longer succeed in the CL final. What amazed me was how Benitez managed to make Liverpool a little more interesting to watch than usual--at least in the first half. Liverpool really took it to Milan from the get-go. Milan deservedly won but, frankly, they were not impressive at all. Milan actually proved to be more boring than Liverpool --- except for a few moments when Kaka was allowed some space, and of course when the obnoxious Pippo scored. (It was a shoulder, not a handball--the goal was pure dum luck, the 2nd goal wasn't).

For posivite, exciting football, the UEFA cup final was far better this year. Sevilla and Espanyol had me glued to the screen throughout.

Anyway, much as I love several of Milan's players (incl. the great Maldini and esp. Kaka), they shouldn't have been in the CL this season anyway due to their role in the calciopoli scandal in Italy last year. And the sight of the utterly loathsome pondscum that is Silvio Berlusconi celebrating with that trophy in his hands was enuf to sicken everyone at the bar I was at.