Just another badly written fantasy nonsense. Making the story up as they go along....
LIke my 10yo school essays, it will end with the line 'and then I woke up and went to school.'
My problem with it, is that the main thrust is that the gang want to be saved off the island, but they cant get saved, as they then wouldnt be lost anymore. So the suspense in the program is all bullshite getting them no where near their goal. So there's the hatch, the numbers, the heroin, teh guns, the polar bear, the gifted kid, the nonsense, the waste of another 40 mins of your life. It strikes me that the writers had a good idea for a program, got picked up, and looked at themselves, and tried to figure out what to do with it. My guess is that they still dont know where they are going with.
I'm surprised it is so popular among the onion/forum intellegencia.