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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 5191234" data-attributes="member: 2525">This "the show is the characters" theme feels made up after the fact to adapt to what happened, rather than what actually happened with this show.Again, the entire ad campaign for the final season was focused on answers, not characters.  Most of the fan base was built on mystery, not characters.  Plus, the show was often NOT about putting characters first.  They routinely kill characters.  They lose other characters every season based on real world things like two actors getting arrested in a drunk driving incident, another wanting to leave the show (Eko), another growing too fast (Walt)...don't tell me this whole show was about characters when characters took second place to larger mysteries and plot often.Ask any random person on the street what Lost was about, and they will likely mention numbers, and a hatch, and experiments, and a ton of non-character-related themes.  They will probably mention any of a number of season finales, which were mostly plot related, not character related.Yeah, the "it's all about the characters" is an excuse.  It was sometimes about the characters, but often about plot.  And they didn't answer a lot of major questions they asked.  Entire themes set up from the beginning of the show were just entirely dropped unanswered.Again, I liked the ending, but it was not enough.  They needed to answer at least a handfull of questions.</blockquote>

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