Making the slightest bit of fucking sense. That would be really out there.
Not to sound snark, but didn’t they also say there’d be no time travel?
Didn’t they say there would not be anything ‘supernatural’ - no aliens, that kind of thing - isn’t there some kind of basis in reality, for all the strange events?
The Player Vs Player web comic has the answer to the OP:
http://www.pvponline.com/2009/05/14/and-the-rest/
Gilligan and the Skipper are the gods.
“This finally makes sense to me”. 
I think they were saying that the plane crash was not them time-traveling. But honestly, regardless of what they’ve said, Lindelof and Cuse are great writers, and they both know that any sort of “it didn’t really happen” ending would be the biggest cop-out ending in the history of TV (if not fiction). Plus, I doubt they would stay alive much longer than that.
I will send a dead rat to someone on the production staff if this is their “explanation”. That would be artistic suicide/manipulation on a scale I’ve not personally yet encountered.
Which makes it not even 50% Deus. I’d maybe put it’s Deus level at around 3%, maximum.
Deus Ex Machina: it’s not Latin for “Oooh, that’s a bit convenient.” 
Ted McGinley shows up.
GigoBuster:
The comic strip Monty did that joke first.
The smoke monster appeared in the pilot. If they did say that, it went out the window pretty fast.
It’s not about how much is too much; it’s a science fiction / fantasy drama. So, as with any decently told story within that genre, it’s about sticking to whatever rules you’ve laid down from the start and keeping it all cogent within that framework. Out of context, there’s some asinine stuff in there already, but if it all comes together in a well told, tightly woven, complex and interesting story by the end of it, and they don’t break their own rules, cheat, or back peddle* – well, shit… that’s quality entertainment.
The story isn’t done yet, so no one can say what the verdict is, but for now, I feel they’ve done a decent job of sticking to the rules they’ve established from the first season. I think it’s fair to say, we’re all dying to find out how it’s going to wrap up.
*And no true Deus Ex Machinas as of yet, that I can think of.
What about all of those random jungle encounters, which seems to happen at least once an episode? Surely some of those must qualify.
Yeah, but we didn’t actually see it until the last episode of Season 1. Up until then, they could have given a perfectly mundane reason for all those trees being uprooted.
Maybe for you. That’s where they lost me…
“They’re on the island, they’re off the island! Who can follow that shit!?”
Things that would be “too much”?
Kate not being such an amoral bitch…
Jack not being such a doofus…
Locke saying “Hey, I was happier at the box factory. When can I go home?”…
Hurley and Rose being discovered in a Love Connection…
Sawyer being at a lost for insults…
Girl-on-girl action with Shannon, Claire, Sun, and that chick who blew up the bomb at the end of last season… (a man can dream, can’t he?)
A perfectly mundane reason for an invisible force that uprooted trees and roared?
You havent had Taco Bell’s Lava Sauce Extra Bean Burritto yet have you?
It works just as well no matter what end it comes out off. And, given the taste, the odds are about 50/50 either way.
I think their point was that this is a science fiction show and not a fantasy one. Aliens are not supernatural. The smoke monster hasn’t been explained yet. It could be some kind of cloud of nano computers or something. Supernatural implies things of a spiritual nature like ghosts, god, angels.
Yeah, but if the science is sufficiently advanced, what difference does it make?