Jason Mittell (a.k.a. @jmittell):
Lost is a show featuring time travel, smoke monsters, and clairvoyance—do we really need to understand how everything works enough to recreate the island in our basement?
That’s exactly what I think too. Wanting to understand everything about a story often leads to missing the point of the story itself. (Another reason why I keep thinking of Donnie Darko when I watch Lost. But that’s another story, indeed.)