Quote Originally Posted by ShlupQuack View Post
Well, from what I heard, I would've hated it. Those kinds of endings make me throw things. I guess it makes sense since supposedly the rest of the entire show didn't make sense. I'm sure I would've liked it if I had watched it but, after reading about how they ended it, I'm glad I didn't 'cause I would be one of the people really, really unhappy. xP
Seriously. You can't play up the mysteries as a significant part of the point of the show and then cop out and say "It's all about the characters". The show wouldn't have made it to season 2 if it hadn't been for the numbers, the hatch, the polar bear, the smoke monster, Rousseau, the Others, Jack seeing his dead father, all that stuff. There were a lot of great and interesting characters on the show, but really, I stopped watching once I accepted that there were never going to be any answers. And once they killed Rousseau.

Midichlorians is a crap comparison because the Force was sufficiently explained, coherent, and understandable that it didn't need an explanation like that, and to give it one devalued it. That is, Star Wars works without it, and the whys and wherefores didn't need to be answered.