Modern Sci-Fi-esque T.V. shows and German Art-haus directors

So I happened to see an episode of 'Lost' where they find this old slave ship -- in the middle of the pacific -- with TNT. The poor science teacher dun got blowed up right then and there, but it's like, what is this ship doing way up in the middle of the island?

I mean, I'm a big fan of Werner Herzög, but it's like, did the directors or the writers realize that they were like embarking into German-language theatre when they started off on that little story line? I mean, are the people behind Lost really trying to bring in some sort of statement about the futility of western civilization's attempts to dominate nature or about the double-faced attitude of the 'conquistador,' or of the inability of man to adapt to the new reality of their surroundings?

On a further note about Lost, I mean, what was with the people on that plane? There couldn't be more intrigue and subterfuge in any group of passengers on a plane if a group of Nazi spies were flying from Russia to land in Britain on their way to America to meet up with Italian-born Japanese Ninjas -- I mean, it's like, what was going on? And about the Others, I'm only, I guess, around the end of Season 1 / start of Season 2, and it's like, how did the others get there, and then get the gas to power a motorboat to then go off and steal the kid from that raft? What?! And then, with that bunker, it's like, you don't just make a concrete bunker 40 feet down. That requires some serious construction, people! That's not an insignificant amount of concrete! And then, the Nigerian drug runners -- how exactly did they get that little plane to the middle of the Pacific? Where were they going to land, dare we ask? How did they get the gas? I mean, I hate to be all Mad Max with the gas questions here, and I know it's a show, but, well, there it is! Maybe it's a tale about the futility of our gas economy... ;-)