I agree entirely with the spirit of this article. The point of Lost, I’ve always thought, isn’t to “solve” the mysteries, whatever that might look like. I see it as essentially a metaphor for the human condition – we’re thrown into this world that may or may not have a larger meaning. Things are ambiguous; there’s just enough evidence to support a variety of interpretations, but not enough for one to be overwhelmingly obvious. All the characters (and, by extension, the viewers) are trying to find meaning in a world that may or may not have any. Locke, more than any of the other characters, embraces the idea that there is an overarching purpose at work, and is therefore characterized in several episodes as a “man of faith.” Jack could be taken to represent the Enlightenment belief in human rationality, Sawyer is ruthless social Darwinism, etc. These all represent different ways of responding to the world. I think it was Gabriel Marcel who distinguished betwee a problem, which is something to be solved, and a mystery, which is something to be entered into. Lost offers a mystery in this sense: the characters enter into their strange surroundings and cobble together more-or-less coherent responses to them. It’s all very existentialist.