Maybe the real problem is that they're stuck in a Person-featured-in-main-story-must-be-featured-in-backstory rut.

It took longer, but it's like the way the fomula on HOUSE got old real quick. They need to change things up a little.

Didn't they do a two-fer in at least one of the episodes? They should do that again, and have Vincent's be one of the stories.

Anyway, people I need never see any more backstory on: Jack, Kate, Jack, Charlie, Michael, Jack, Sawyer, Jack and Jack. This is one show where, hooboy, do I know Jack.

They've done two Hurley's and three Locke's, right? There's still some big pieces missing there for both of them.

Not sure if there's anything left for Jin, Sun, Claire or Sayid that won't feel a bit like wheel-spinning. Yikes, does that leave any non-tailies who's one of the regulars?

Yikes, does that leave any non-tailies who's one of the regulars?

Rose! We still have got nothing on either her or Bernard, and I want more!

Rose! We still have got nothing on either her or Bernard, and I want more!

I'd love to see their story(ies), but they aren't among the main cast (which is what I meant by regulars).

One place I thought they were going with the Madness of Charlie was that he was getting island sickness like what may have happened to Danielle's contemporaries.

But I'm not sure that's where they ended up.

Oh, I forgot a couple Catholic quibbles I had.

1) Unless Eko went back after the heroin plane took off and officially became a priest, I don't think he can be baptizing people.

2) I don't think there's any point in being baptized a Catholic unless you actually convert, so I have no idea what that ceremony accomplished except to make Claire feel better. And why would it make her feel better, without some sort of religious foundation? The cinematography was lovely, but the whole scene just irritated me.

1) Unless Eko went back after the heroin plane took off and officially became a priest, I don't think he can be baptizing people.

Didn't Eko's brother sign a document "officially" making him and his flunky a priest so they could get on the plane in the first place?

Didn't Eko's brother sign a document "officially" making him and his flunky a priest so they could get on the plane in the first place?

Yeah that's not really how it works. It's a freaking sacrament.

I'm so over this show. I think we are breaking up for real this time. (Although I'll miss the pretty people and the pretty Hawaii.)

Yeah that's not really how it works. It's a freaking sacrament.

Hee. Yeah, I meant "officially" as in "passing muster with The Big Guy."

ooh, I'd love it if he were getting the island sickness.

the catholic stuff was really, really annoying and I had to handwave it because it was Eko-related and NOTHING CAN OR WILL COME BETWEEN US.

Unless Eko went back after the heroin plane took off and officially became a priest, I don't think he can be baptizing people.

Unless he's become officially whacked out after the Lost flight crashed and really believes himself to be a priest, or close enough for the island's religious needs. I had the same thought, as well as thought #2 (Claire admits to not being baptized herself, and she sure didn't get any further religious education from Eko before getting baptized).

Also, I couldn't help but remember the recent Vatican retraction of limbo and how that impacts on the whole "Aaron's damned to hell if he's not baptized" issue that Charlie has, because as a devout Catholic, he should know that Aaron would end up in limbo, not hell (at least, as far as he knew about Catholic teachings at the time of the crash).