Thompson posted... Yeah, that was it. Thanks.
So, LOST peeved me by piling on mysteries ontop of mysteries and then having a lame "we escaped the island alive after all and now we are happy" kind of a cop-out ending. Like what was that foot statue, what was the smoke monster, why and how and whose galleon got stranded in the middle of the island? The show added intrigue episode after episode until, I guess, the writers realized they didn't even themselves know why they wrote in all that stuff and chose to wrap up the show on a pesudo-feelgood note that felt as rewarding as taking a dive into a pool of surstrmming.
Flash Forward ended with no resolution simply because the series was axed before it could get itself going. Maybe that was for the best?
I think you missed an episode or two because the statue and ship in the middle of the island were both explained