how does lost attract its audience?

J.J Abrams' Lost attracts a mainstream audience. lost has been encoded to be inclusive. passive and active audience can be gratified by it. enigma codes are seen throughout the episode; they control what the audience sees and knows. they gratify a more active audience member as they would want to decode and guess the meaning of it. placed just before an advert break' we get a slow zoom shot of a pair of handcuffs that Walt had found on the floor, it then cuts back to Micheal and Walt looking at them in slight horror. this, and most of the enigma codes, are accompanied by the use of score written by the composer Micheal Giacchino. this is music that is written specifically for the show. as the camera zooms in looking at the handcuffs the timbres build and become more staccato, allowing passive audience members how the characters are feeling and how the handcuffs should be read. by merging these two conventions together, it allows the show to gratify both types of audience member simultaneously.