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Originally Posted by ragedogg69
I will defend Lost in its ability to make character development compelling. I never expected to be so involved with the antisocial Korean couple the beginning of the series. Thats great writing.
However, they also made Kate absolutely awful by the end of the series.
Had they come out around season 2 or 3 and immediately said, they will leave some things on the island a mystery, people would not have been so pissed.
That quote at the end of the granland piece is telling. People were pissed at the hatch cliffhanger. How could they not see a problem with ending the series with no payoff?
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Again, I suppose it depends on how you're defining "payoff." Because the show does end. The mysteries do get answered. There is a payoff in that sense.
Whether or not it was satisfying is a matter for each individual viewer. But I wouldn't say they ended "the series with no payoff."
And, I think, it's irrational and a little absurd that anyone got angry at a television show for ending it's first season on a cliffhanger like that. I thought it was brilliant in every way. Like Lindelof said, I suppose I can understand a level of disappointment, but anger?
I think that says a lot more about the viewers than it does about the show.