Of course, LOST was one of those TV enigmas.
This is how it summed up the series and its ending:
What The Hell, Lost?
It begins with the basic premise question: were the characters time-travelers, incompetent aliens, sexy magicians or spirits in the afterlife? Was everyone on the show dead? Was it all the dream of an autistic child?Their Explanation:
It's not the afterlife, and the island is magic. As for every other question, some were answered in an epilogue on the Season 6 DVD set, though they too can easily be summed as everything was an experiment by DHARMA.
"What's with that giant bird from Seasons 1 and 2?" DHARMA experimented on animals!
"Why do women have pregnancy problems on the Island?" It's the electromagnetism!
"What was that weird thing in Room 23 that looked like a brainwashing video?" A brainwashing video! DHARMA used it to erase memories!
"Where did the food drops come from?" A warehouse in Guam!
"Why polar bears?" They were good candidates for testing!
Sure, one can logically state that something out of the ordinary would seem to be "magic" to a primitive culture. For example, an isolated island tribe with no contact with modern, western civilization could consider a helicopter as "magic" since they have never seen aircraft. But the pilot could "explain" to the tribe the basic principles of flight. In LOST, the explanation of "magic" has no basic principle in which viewers could believe. It is purely used in this context as a broad brush for a fantasy story (which intentionally did not want to explain its elements).
