Writers keep doing 'but it was all a dream', sometimes even thinking they are clever. And for decades we have just rolled our eyes and feel let down by their shoddy craftsmanship, because it is the traditional cop out at the end of a child's bedtime story when we need the tale to end.

The strange thing is the executive producers and money men signing off on this stuff, lowering the value of the franchise, so I guess they know little of the craft of storytelling either. Am I the only person who never bothered with Lost because of opinions of its ending?