but IIRC wasn't Lost a victim of its own success? Like since it was a network TV show and it had bonkers ratings, the network wanted to extend it as much as possible? This meant Lindelof had to extend the mysteries and basically painted himself into a corner.


Edit: But to his credit, Lindelof sorta acknowledges Lost when talking about S3:

“This is it; we left no dangling threads, no to be continued, no spinoff possibilities. We made pretty sure that this was going to be the last season of the show,” Lindelof assured Variety on the carpet before the screening. “The audience deserves as satisfying an ending as we can give them. I don’t think anyone wants to see a question mark at the end of this.”