Much of the time this is how the players see the DM. The truth is that (in my experience) much of the time the DM has only a vague idea whats currently going on, let alone what is to come.
How does this relate to Lost? Well, if you have to ask, you probably haven't been playing attention the last 6 years. It's a show that hints at lots and lots of things, and judging by what people are saying about the last episode, it either explained some stuff, or didn't explain enough stuff, or it didn't mean anything in the first place.
Either way, the fan base has been speculating about the meaning of the show since pretty much the beginning. They've come up with wild theories to try to make sense of it all, because they presume that the show made sense, that the writers had a plan, and that if they could figure out what that was, that it might reveal some deeper meaning to the shows mythology.
Why is this important? Because it means the players will fill in the blanks for you. Give them something to grab hold of. Repeat a motif, a number, give them a shadowy antagonist, and let them fill in the blanks. What does that red diamond in a white circle mean? Why is it repeated? Chances are that the ideas they come up with together will be more exciting that what you come up with on your own.
Special note to players - Please conjecture! Come up with outlandish ideas for what is going on. You never know when you might be right!
One of my great realizations of my adult life. Often the illusion of great depth is more important than great depth itself. Lord of the Rings is a great example. As a youth I spent a great deal of time perusing the appendices and inffering the legends which must lie behind. When the Simeriallian came out I discovered that not only did not fill in the gaps I was curious about but it had a whole new set of gaps available. The zillion extra books which C. Tolkien has published since do no better. The human mind does a great job of filling missing pieces with the things it wished to see. One of my great joys of DMing is to observe how others fill in the gaps I have left and using them as spingboard for even more ideas
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