Prometheus

[Cranky Old Man]

To the "Lost" director thing... He planned out the entire series. There's just a lot of filler.

If you really believe that, then I have just one question: What was the black smoke? ...and if you can answer that question, I have hundreds more.

This is how you write Lost: You have no shame, and feel no responsibility towards the viewers, and then you just make shit up. You can make up aliens, time travel, people saying cryptic stuff, rituals, whatever, and while the viewers will stick around, patiently waiting for explanations for years, you Just Don't Give a Fuck. That's how you write Lost. People will stick around until the final episode, waiting for everything to finally be revealed, and then you just go "...and everything was revealed to the characters, off camera. The End". They you'll get tons and tons of hate mail from people, calling you things like "an emotional terrorist", but again you Just Don't Give a Fuck.

There was no "story development", because there was no story at all. There was just people mysteriously bumping into eachother for no reason. Nothing Was Planned In Lost. It featured dinosaurs, black smoke and mystic number sequences, and nothing had any reason for it. It was all just bullshit to sucker people on a massive scale, and people thought that Lindelof couldn't possibly be that evil, because he must have been aware that the viewers would literally kill him dead if he didn't plan everything, or at least he would lose so much credibility that Hollywood wouldn't hire him again. How wrong we were.

Yes, Star Wars is as fictional and bizarre as you can get, but for its time, it was mature and realistic compared to movies like Flash Gordon, and the first three movies didn't feature too bizarre things. That's generally why fans hate the latter movies: They lack maturity, and were literally for kids, while the first movies were for teens to adults.