Is 'Lost' losing its way?

Finale of Season 2 last night... I had to watch otherwise I'd have just laid awake thinking about it anyway! TBH, I thought the ending of season 2 was poor... OK, so we do now have an answer as to what happens when you don't push the button - though the savvy among us had already guessed that it was linked to the plane crash/was a real danger anyway... We now have Desmond becoming a key character (is this because the producers feel we are getting bored with the other main characters and need some new character profiles?)... Season 3 will clearly be focusing on 'The others' (more flashbacks no doubt of those people - providing new flashbacks but no further developed flashbacks of the characters we already know),
My main problem is that the list of unanswered questions (what do the numbers mean? what's really going on? what are the hatches? what is the dharma initiative? who are 'the others?' what is Desmond's role in all of this? etc etc ad infinitum...) just grows... Making the programme ever more complex and trying to be so clever it trips over itself and being more focused on developing new ideas/plotlines rather than tying up any of the existing ones... I fear that many people Will simply give up... Maybe season 3 should be the last... Anyway, all of that said, i will watch season 3 (feeble I know)...
My theory is (and has been for a while) that the title gives us a clue to what ultimately is going on...
That all the characters have 'lost' something in their flashbacks (real life?...) Locke: use of his legs, , Michael: relationship with his son, Jack: father, Hurley: money, Desmond: Penelope - love of his life, Jin & Sun: fertility, Kate: being finally caught whilst on the run, Charlie: music career... Need I go on?... And perhaps the island is about eventually 'finding' or 'being found'
Notice also that all of the characters are linked before they arrived. Sawyer met Jack's Dad, Hurley owned the box company Locke worked for, Libby gave Desmond his boat, Libby & Hurley were in the same hospital, Ana Lucia had met Sawyer & (almost?) shot him, Desmond met Jack training to run... probably others I can't remember... Is this significant?...
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Comments

[geoffetherton]

Thanks to Laura for the review - how true... (though I am still addicted!)
And JB... you're very wise!... Completely agree about the commercialism which perhaps drives the storylines too much... I wasn't really saying I wanted all the answers though - rather, I fear that it is getting TOO complex, that the number of questions is expanding exponentially... And though we don't need everything neat & tidy, we do need some order in the chaos otherwise we end up where Hurley was (remember?!)...

[Vincent the Labrador]

glad to see some of my theories play out during the finale. Makes me feel better and ensures my wife doesn't think I'm completely potty. Lets face it, Lost is a commercial TV prog and they will spin it out till no one watches anymore. However, I'm happy to see more. I want to know about 'the others' I want to know how Desmonds girlfriends dad is involved in all this. I want to know what has happened to the dog and whether eko, locke and Des are alive or not. Geoff you can't have all your answers tied up neatly, that would be ....well...too neat! I agree with you that it's about people who have lost something in their lives so perhaps Lost is about finding peace/contentment/self/confidence/happiness ? They find themselves whilst they are lost. that sound a bit pop culture spiritual to me but it is a pop culture commercial TV show. Perhaps it's a bit like some of your recent posts about wanting answers from God. There are no neat and tidy solutions and 'Lost' won't be solved neatly and tidily just like God doesn't always present us with neat and tidy solutions. OK that's my ramblings over for a bit.

[LauraHD]

In the light of this, I highly recommend you read Sam Wollaston's review in the Guardian today - http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,1881706,00.html