we try to make sense of it anyway.
And that can certainly be a lot of fun, and far be it from me to stifle creative thought -
After all, no show can take an unlimited number of incongruities, and we try to limit them as much as we can, for the sake of protecting our suspension of disbelief.
- though for me personally I suppose I don't sweat the small things like candles burning that probably shouldn't be (though when it comes to the candles in Collinwood's secret passages, I do have that theory that it's all done in a very Dickensesque manner by poor Collins relations that the rich family allows to live in the secret passages
) or light in the secret room when it's closed up. I'm more concerned with things like how[spoiler]a man like Philip Todd could potentially be hanged (for crimes he didn't even commit and with no real evidence to connect him to them, no less) when Maine didn't have the death penalty![/spoiler]Though, of course, things like that are way off in the future from where we're presently at on the show.
As for Lost, I always thought that they set it up as a show where the explanations were coming, and mattered, so they (the show)couldn't really survive a lot of nonsense (and perhaps didn't). But maybe others watched it differently.
Considering many of the comments I've seen on the Internet regarding
Lost, I definitely watched it differently than many did.
And perhaps it's similar with DS.