For whatever reason I usually feel honor bound to contextualize this narrative
The show’s creators envisioned something like a 60 episode story
It was ABC that kept pushing more shows (and this was at a time where going against a network was career suicide)
Creators finally put their foot down saying s6 was it
So writers strike + padding/adding a lot of story + Mr Eko leaving forcing writers to give his intended arc to Locke they just had to figure out how to land the plane (😛)
That being said - GoT is the prime example of an all time great show crashing to earth
Lost was an alltime great show that limped over the finish line
121 episodes - only a handful of those are tedious
That’s an incredible hit rate.
Because of its popularity and that it was one of the first internet discussion shows, Lost gets a lot of the ‘narrative’ hot takes that’s a staple of so much current content (disney umbrella shows in particular)