Obviously it's your opinion, and I'm using mine to say you're wrong and you aren't being fair. Whether or not you like the direction of the plotlines does not make or break a show. Pay attention to the style. The transitions, music, acting, dialogue, all the cliffhangers...What makes LOST so great is we can never pinpoint an answer given on the show but by the end of the season we know worlds more about the topic of the season. Look at the end of the first season, up until that point it's been about character conflicts and development and building the raft and "who poisoned Michael," and as soon as they blew open the hatch the entire story changed. Flash-foward to the end of the second season when we know all about the hatch, and the characters are blowing it up. That's some great development. But we never met anyone who just said all of the answers. We were indirectly shown more and more and that's what makes it such a great work of art. Look at the beginning of the third season. Kate is a handcuffed and eating breakfast on the beach with Ben, who is sure that his plans will work, and flash foward to the finale where he is tied to a tree and all the survivors are just about to get onto helicopters and get rescued. You might not like that the island natives are immortal or that there are polar bears, but this show is not being made by dummies who want to make some money. This is art.