SmithsGuy

They did like to play fast and loose with all the timing in this one. I kept wondering when all the cars would run out of gas (with all the driving and siphoning etc.).

chuckd21

Electric cars.

calhoun07

Some people like blood sausage.

calhoun07

See, I liked Lost. I still do. The finale didn't bother me at all, either. After they got past season two and got the OK from ABC to end the show on their time line, the series improved quite a bit.

PhantomStranger

No one hated Lost while watching it. Only the sheer inanity of the finale and its ultimate explanations drove people up the wall.

MikahC

Some people. Half of whom didn't even understand it. Lost had issues, but not the ones most people accuse it of. And it's my go-to reminder to self about why we don't get more challenging TV shows.

Under The Dome, on the other hand, is indefensibly idiotic -- and deserves no comparison to Lost.

calhoun07

My only issue with it is it tried to explain just a tad too much for my taste. I would have rather some of the mysteries remain mysteries. That it didn't answer all of them was fine with me. This was a series created by JJ Abrams, a man who has an upopened box of magic tricks from when he was a kid because the mystery of what is inside and thinking about it is more fascinating to him than solving the mystery. Anybody who thought he was going to open his box and show you everything regarding Lost didn't understand the mindset of the man behind it.

Josh-da-man

The problem here is Lost was six years of build-up with no payoff. The answers to the few mysteries that they gave (the whispers, the skeletons) were weak and hackneyed.

And, outside of the pilot, I don't J. J. Abrams had much to do with the show other than a producer's credit and cashing checks.

Xiroteus

Sure can't relate to that mindset, I want and like all the answers to everything. Some a show does not give any answers half the time I will just think the writer does not even know.

Reminds me of someone saying they have this chest in their house and when talked about they likely said it has not been open in decades and they are not sure what's in it. Seriously? I would last about two minutes before that thing was tossed open by whatever means. (carefully)

When it comes to story I just think, TELL your story, all of it.

PhantomStranger

Creative people don't give answers when they don't have satisfying answers to give. It was a cop-out by Lost's writers when they said the story was as much about the journey as the ending.

RichC2

I had no problem with Lost's finale. The only aspect I truly disliked about the show had to do with the brothers. Otherwise it was fine, I was also amused at the number of people who though which missed the boat by a few hundred miles.

Under the Dome though, these fuckers are just liars all around. First this was a regular series, then a limited series, then a regular series again, wtf.