More on My "Meh"

After talking it over with Sarah, who disagreed with my negative assessment of last week's episode, i feel like what really left me cold about the episode was the fact that there was no development of the plots of ANY of the characters we care about. I felt like they could have introduced all these new folks through the eyes of one of the Losties or Others, or even an off-island connection (Libby, Penny, etc), or at the very least interspersed their stories with some more backstory or interpersonal on-island stuff. I mean for Christ's sake, ONE WINK between Jack and Kate? That's all we get? fuck.