Some promo definitely would have helped, but it all comes down to this.

Anybody that thinks there's an "All Summer Long" type song on Chinese Democracy is delusional.

I've listened for a while myself.  I actually think I liked it better before they changed the format to be closer to the radio show. 

To me they're really overdoing the "drops".  At one point as I was thinking that, Adam said that they'd talked off the air and he wanted more of them.  So obviously by biggest bitch isn't going to change.

I actually thought earlier this season they were setting it up for Sawyer to become the new Man In Black, and Jack to become the new Jacob.  Just based off the way Jack had wanted to get back to the island once off and the way Sawyer was looking to do anything to get off of it, just like the Locke/Man in Black.

Well, according to what Michael said when Hurley saw him toward the end, the island was purgatory for you if you fucked up...  Then the flash sideways ended up being kind of purgatory too...

so...  I don't know?

Awesome

Yeah, I could see that.  I dug it myself, but I get what you're saying.

I said after the 1st couple seasons of Lost that I thought it reminded me of The Sopranos.  My biggest bitch (and one of my only) about Sopranos was that they had a main core of really interesting characters and concepts, but insisted on adding to that instead of flushing out all the stories from what was already there.  Lost did that same thing.

I'd rather have found out how the guy who we first saw with a fake beard (Tom?) ended up on the island as part of "The Others" than a lot of stories that were told after him.

The creators claim they knew how they wanted to end it since the beginning.  I'm not sure how much I buy that, but that's what they said.

Part of me wonders if they sort of rushed through some things in case they ended up losing people's interest and getting cancelled before they got a chance to do their big mystical ending.