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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
... I hope the end is better.
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End? I don't expect there will be an "end" because I don't think there is a story. Each episode, it seems to me, is just one of an endless series of vignettes the purpose of which is to instantiate the next. Not unlike a book that just goes on forever.
Not that it isn't intriguing but to watch it in anticipation of a conclusion is, I think, a bit of a misunderstanding - like expecting a soap opera to "end." It'll end when the ratings fall below the breakeven level. Rather, it will stop.
If you took every episode of Gilligan's Island and laid the film out end to end and cut the first five minutes off the first episode such that the first five minutes of each show (except the first) becomes the last five minutes of the preceeding show, you'd end up with the same basic story structure as Lost.
I suspect that they are making it up as they go along and have no idea from one week to the next where the "story" is going much less where its going to end.
I could be wrong, though.