i should add that i don't blame cuse and lindelof really, it was their right to make their show however they wanted
you gotta remember that you never know when a show is gonna be a hit, lost could have lasted one episode so it's extremely difficult to plan long term
the purgatory idea (if it's what they planned from the beginning, which i think they did) was a good one, but unfortunately for them their fanbase was a little too smart for their own good and figured it out. what they should have done was just ignored it and kept going and not gone through all the trouble of denying it on the show and IRL.
and for the record, i really liked season 6. i only disliked the finale.
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