LIndelofing
Is anyone else concerned that we are going to get Lindeloff'd at the end of the show? I'm still pissed about Lost. I admit I'm absolutely enthralled with the Leftovers but I can't help but prepare myself for the ending letting me down.
"It's not about the story, it's about the people" = I have no plan.

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I'm concerned. I hadn't been, but there have been more than a few moments recently in Leftovers that have reminded my of Lost and I can't help but worry. On the plus side, Lost declined over the seasons before the finale and Leftovers hasn't. My problem with Lost isn't with the finale itself, but how disappointing the lead up to the finale was...IMO in an effort to tie up all the loose ends they ended up with a story and explanation that didn't live up to the quality that the show had been. I can't help but worry with only a few episodes left and with so many unresolved issues that there might be a similarly rushed/unsatisfying wrap up coming our way.
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There's a pattern of Nora and Kevin Sr. being opposites. Most recently, Kevin Sr. is constantly making truths out of falsehoods (seeing meaning in things that aren't true) which - and this is a caveat - leads me to believe that the opposite is likely to be true of Nora. Meaning, the 'scam' that she thinks that she's investigating probably isn't a scam and is real. The idea that this machine might be sending people to those who departed (and possibly that the departed people might come back) is reinforced by Kevin Jr's taped conversation with Sr. regarding the ducks who go underwater and everyone thinks that they're gone (I think he says dead or drowned?), but they come back. This could be more ambiguity for us to weigh ourselves, but with the Jr/Sr hotel/tv conversation essentially confirmed (there may be a rational explanation that makes a remarkable coincidence possible) it seems like they are tilting towards provided answers rather than viewer interpretation.
However this show ultimately ends, I hope that two people could watch it - a science/rational person and a religious/mystic person - and each draw their own conclusion that can be fully supported. If the subjectivity of the viewer's interpretation remains intact when the show is done, I'll be happy.
So many people just don't understand Losts end, like this guy
In fairness though, there are tons of people who go it and understood exactly what happened and still didn't like it because IMO it was really poorly executed. When I complain about "how it ended" I'm not exclusively referring to the actual final scene or sequence of scenes, I'm referring to the entire denouement of the series and how ham-fistedly they tried to wrap things up. In the end, the quality of the explanation wasn't equal to the quality of the set up and I think betrayed a complete lack of planning. I think that they had a look at what they had to work with and retro-actively crafted a mythology that could work and used the super lazy and unsatisfying "island rules" loop hole to explain away everything else.
IMO the show went off the rails when they introduced time travel, it made it a lot harder to make things make sense after that - which is ironic because no doubt it was done to provide answers.