I had dinner once with Mark Frost, who co-created Twin Peaks with David Lynch. He confided that they really had no idea where they were going at any given time, and that Lynch’s surrealist “genius” made it pretty much impossible to get a coherent storyline going. Meanwhile, I will agree, John, that Lost has been frustrating in continuing to take us further down the rabbit hole with every episode, rather than periodically providing a payoff. But I am still enthralled. Maybe it’s the flashbacks — we get answers about the characters’ past, if not their present.