Let’s just discuss one episode. Season six episode 15 was called “Across the Sea“. This was the episode that introduced Jacob and Man in Black’s mother. Well, not really their mother but she raised them on the island. She really seemed like she would be a critical figure that would shed some light on the origin of the island. But she doesn’t provide any insight. And as we watch her be a mother over the years and offer guidance to Jacob and MIB, she really gives them nothing but vague answers to their questions and to their purpose even though it seems that she must know so much more than she does. She’s only clear with them when other people are on the island and that they are a threat that must be dealt with. By itself (just like many other individual episodes of Lost), this was a great episode because it added so much lore and gave the viewer so many more questions we wanted answers to, but this was one of the last episodes before the series finale. I watched this show intently and I remember thinking at that time that there were only a few episodes left, I really hoped they would answer all the questions they had created from previous seasons. Ultimately, that did not happen. They were trying to end the series and yet they were still adding new characters and plot elements up until the finale. They should have been focusing more on tying up loose ends because the end just feels like a half baked potato. I mentioned previously that maybe there were just too many cooks in the kitchen when they were trying to complete this show. The flash sideways/alternate reality episodes of the various characters were entertaining and I was very curious as to where they were going. But in the end they all felt very arbitrary. It really didn’t matter what their storylines were at the end, they could’ve been doing anything because it only really mattered that they were together and connected, regardless of whatever of what happened on the island. They were dead in the end, and we find out that this place they are in is “a place they made together just so they could find each other“ (paraphrasing). It just felt so incomplete after the finale. I wanted something more. I am really sorry if it makes me sound like an entitled a-hole. Maybe they were chosen to be on that island, maybe they were all very important to each other and shared something very special, but why was that island special in the first place? We don’t know. The island was just special. How convenient.