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Originally Posted by Yamer
To me, it's a disengenous way of storytelling.
The hook is the mystery, and the narrative is entirely built around that mystery until it becomes impossible to deliver a satisfying explanation. So they shift to relying on character in the hopes viewers will do the same and forget why they were watching in the first place.
If the characters were the strength of the show they would have started building from that foundation in the first place, instead of layering up from the mystery bedrock.
At least, like you mention, they jumped that shark early enough that people didn't have the prolonged ability to realize they were duped like Lost...but they were still swindled.
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You fundamentally misunderstood the story if you thought it was "The mystery of why 2% of the population disappeared will be solved". The underlying source material was never about that, the TV show was never about that. That's a you issue, not a show issue.