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** Funnily enough, a promo from the show's last season is scored with the tunnel song from ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory''. You know, where Wonka gets more and more freaked out because he has no idea where he's going?
** The season six DVD has an epilogue on it which explains some of the left-over mysteries like the [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|Hurley Bird]]. Ben even lampshades the issue of unexplained questions by telling the Dharma employees that even though they may have a lot of questions, they'll only get two questions answered between them. And don't get started on the fact that this short was a [[Revenue Enhancing Devices|DVD-only exclusive]]...
* In general, the works of [[J.J. Abrams]] often have this problem. Robert Brockway of ''[[Cracked.com]]'' [http://www.cracked.com/article/18353_the-top-5-everything-decade-for-better-worse_p3/ put it best]: "A creative visionary and genius... for approximately two seasons, after which point he cracks, panics and starts [[A Wizard Did It|rambling on about magic]] instead of writing a coherent plotline." To a certain degree, even ''[[Felicity]]'' fell prey to this, as did ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''. It'll be interesting to see if the same happens to ''[[Fringe]]'', or if he's finally got things under control. It's been doing fine so far (or at least seems that way), and it might help that a fair number of the episodes are already borderline ramblings about magic.
** Walter Bishop did quote [[Clarke's Third Law]] word for word in response to a particularly bizarre case. There [[It Runs on Nonsensoleum|aren't really any limits]] set for ''Fringe'' to break, though.
** [[Word of God]] is that they do have an ending and a way to get there, plotted over several seasons. However, said ending can be adjusted and deployed on short notice in case they don't get as many seasons as they planned for.
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* Demonstrated failure of ''[[Twin Peaks]]''. But really, what did they expect from David Lynch? Writer and committed Lynch fan David Foster Wallace opined in an essay that the second season of ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' was some of the best television he'd ever watched, in that it was some of the ''worst'' television he'd ever watched. If you watch it all in a row, it's pretty clear that it's one long nervous breakdown on the part of David Lynch as he realizes there's no way in hell he can fulfill any of the promises he made to the viewers with season one. The desperation is palpable. [[Executive Meddling]] was only the start of its problems.
** David Lynch was hardly involved with the second season of Twin Peaks after Laura Palmer's murder was solved, as he was working on other projects. He didn't write or direct any of the next 14 episodes and returned only to direct the series finale. There's a consensus among Twin Peaks fans that the episodes directed by Lynch are the best of the series.
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