The show has never been about giving out answers easily, and the fact that the answers that do come just add more questions to answer add to my general enjoyment of the show.

Now that the creative team has an end point in sight, the series seems to be gathering speed along to its resolution, which I am anxiously anticipating.

The flash-forwards don't seem to be a fixed end-point, and just because we saw his gravestone doesn't mean that Jin isn't off somewhere on the island hoping to be rejoined with the driven-to-find-the-island Sun.

Just offering the glass-half-full POV.

Totally agree! And might I add, the show is still character-driven. It's one of the best character-driven shows on TV.

It was a just some guys in the writers room seeing how stoned they could get before a deadline. It literally is not written down and the joke's on you for thinking it might.

Idol? Yes in fact let's have 3, 4 hr sub finales before a 6 hr finale. No one cares what any of the judges thinks, any of them. So do away with them. Hire acts that have some talent and open it up to audience voting alone. A national Night at the Apollo. They all sound the same anyway. 3 note range and funky hair.

Heroes? Just add three new unrelated lead characters every week and develop their stories for that week and for part of the next week before adding more lead characters. Invite the cast of The Hills.

For the rest of those shows? Gas everyone involved and bulldoze them into a mass grave. The world will be a better place.

Articles like this occur when a writer has a deadline looming and nothing in the trusty ol' "Essay Folder" to pull out and reheat. All too often this results in an article full of, to put it gently, B.S. and a certain aura of douchebaggery. The signs are all there: a too cute concept ("Hey, T.V. shows are, like, our friends. And I remember seeing an intervention in that one movie. You know the one with the, like, drug-addict! Let's have interventions for our favorite T.V. shows!"), an unfounded sense of superiority, and an obvious sense that the person doesn't know what they're talking about. Think of the reviews you used to read in your college newspaper. Or better yet, your high school newspaper. That's what this article is. But it's even worse because, presumably, these people show know better.

The idea of making Lost coherent...this late...is probably impossible. In all honesty, the writers were working season by season, trying to come up with what they thought were extreme, shocking ideas. A stable series doesn't come from tasering the viewers every week. It may really be too late to bring the series back...

...unless the story breaks. I mean breaks internationally. Exactly what the Dharma Foundation (a.k.a. Dr. Fu Manchu's latest plan to destroy white civilization...give the original story its due) has been doing becomes public knowledge. Now the entirety of the scheme becomes clear. Dharma has been manipulating world governments and megacorporations to achieve their goal...making Dr. Manchu (the guy glimpsed so long ago in that Dharma training film) pull out the stops in world conquest.

And let it break. Have Dharma nuke San Diego, destroying much of the American naval fleet (and the city's crappy, overcrowded convention center too). Have the government facing, not a small bunch of half-organized Islamic terrorists, but open warfare on our own shores against a corporate enemy they never even suspected. And...the original survivors of the plane crash happen to be the key to stopping Dharma. Why? That's for the writers to decide.

Something similar would work for Heroes. In this case, the world becomes aware that these superpowered beings exist...maybe not all of their identities, but the world knows that they exist. Having them appear as mysterious unknown saviors or demons is cute, but it's 1940's comic book stuff.

It's always been the basis of comics that powered beings do NOT affect the status quo of the world; the heroes simply support the status quo, usually stopping those who wish to destroy it (the supervillains). In the real world there would be immense effects - like trying to save the cheerleader to copy her DNA, and make someone like Osama bin Laden live forever. Which wouldn't save the world at all.

Maybe the result would be a pogrom that made what happened to the Jews look like a pony ride. Maybe it'd be complete anarchy and greed. But making these mysterious things public would be bringing sociology to these shows. Like the best of science fiction, this would hold a mirror up to humanity to show how ugly - or maybe kind - it is.

Of course, maybe the megacorporations and the coke-snorting CEO's of Hollywood are afraid of ideas, and this stuff will only happen in disreputable and nonprofit fan-fiction.

Just run the remaining episodes in random order.

...please add a tidbit on Battlestar Galactica. That show jumped the shark with greater dash and vigor than any other program I've ever used to like.

Every criticism you make about Lost was there in the first season. I know because I watched the first season very recently, and felt exactly how you described: "Look! Over there!" Etc. By the end of the first season, I felt that I had been tricked out of 20-something hours of my life (or however long it was). Call me a resolution junkie, but I stayed aboard despite that feeling.

Before reading this criticism, I thought it would say the opposite - which, as I understand, is the common sentiment - that: many secrets have been revealed and are much more boring than originally expected. for instance, we know what the smoke thing is now, and although we may not know why people see their lives in the clouds, we know what it does, why it's there, and more or less how it can be deployed. we also found out who the others are, which many people also found to be very boring.

anyway, you're just doing your job. you had to find something that sucks about this show for this article. that's fine, but you're just wrong.