[Teuthida]

That's like writing 3/4 of a book and then telling the reader to write the rest.

For your game cheating analogy...that would be like getting all the answers before the show ended. Sure the princess keeps ending up being in a different castle but Mario eventually gets her in the end. Lost is more like Mario trying to rescue the princess except at the end he doesn't find her and instead wakes up and it was all a dream.

What was fun was for the viewer to guess the answers during the course of the show. To never get any just flat out sucks.