LOST is truly one of those shows I love talking about, but hate to bring it up because the worst opinions you will ever hear will constantly get thrown out and no matter how much you can try to explain, people will just throw their hands up and say "I don't care. I haven't watched it since 2007 / never finished it / it is just a bad show"
It's like complaining about a book you "read" and by read I mean once scanned the back cover in an airport bookstore 20 years ago and have strong feelings on not getting the whole story in one paragraph.
If anyone complains saying LOST is a bad show they will most likely, in bad fairth, argue one of two reasons:
Argument 1: "Because they were dead the whole time, the show is pointless"
Response: They literally did not watch the show. Period. No argument needed.
A summarized scene from the final episode:
Main Character A: Were we dead the whole time?
Omniscient Main Character B: No.
Like it isn't this nebulous question. It is a definitive answer to that argument. If someone complains about that, they never watched LOST or just plainly do not remember the show at all and are just repeating something false they heard online.
Argument 2: It never went anywhere and nothing was answered.
Response: Again, you did not watch the show! I don't know how to articulate that further other than you were clearly doing something else instead of watching LOST.
Everything was answered clearly and plainly; from the island, the numbers, the monster, the polar bears, nothing is left to doubt. Like, literally everything was spoon fed to the audience to explain it all. Was it all perfect? No. But were they answered? Definitively, yes!
@bootyswagga Mr booty, thankyou for putting into words what it feels like to talk about my favourite show. It wasn't perfect but it people who compare it to GoT makes me want to blow my fucking brains out.