LOST for good?

Here's a similarly frustrated LOST fan who has tied a knot and is hanging on. Andrew over at House Next Door posits last night's LOST was self-consciously meta-textual. His is a *fabulous* read of the episode. Seriously, I wish I'd have thought of it myself: "?" as Abrams's and crew's nod to the mainstream fan who has spent the entire season asking "what the ?!?!?!?."

I know, I know, island devotees, banish me for blasphemy, but where has this season left us (aside from desperately, fruitlessly looking for answers in each episode's smallest minutiae)? I too would love to think that the psychic's appearance in "?" will eventually mean something, as will the revelation in "Two for the Road" that Anna-Lucia and Jack's dad were in Australia together (not to mention crossing paths with Sawyer). I would love to believe the whole "Dave" episode is leading somewhere and we'll come back around to Libby and Hurly in the hospital (though now that Libby's dead such belief appears to be one of foolish faith). I'm finished giving this show the benefit of the doubt. How can I when season two has done nothing to advance some of the major story moments of season one: the numbers, Walt's "power", Claire's baby, Rousseau? To the LOST creative team I ask: Why should I believe anything you tell me in season two? Why should I invest myself in any of the tantalizing possibilities raised by "?" (the first truly provocative episode in eons)? Why should I continue to ponder the questions when there are never any answers? LOST has apparently taken to heart the Matrix's maxim that its the questions that drive us. Perhaps the season finale will surprise me and hearken back to the clever mythology that blew us away in season one, but the cynic in me doubts it. The cynic in me wonders if LOST has simply gotten lost as Abrams has become Hollywood's latest "go-to" boy?