Review of Lost 2.06

So, raise your hand if you have not shot someone... NOT SO FAST EVERYONE ON LOST! I mean, really, is this really the best way to create dramatic tension? It seems like everyone is now at least partially responsible the death of someone else. I find the show to be fascinating, but isn't it posible to develop a little more SUBTLE points of conflict??
After the first two or three episodes, season two has really started to sputter for me. This Wednesday's show will be an interesting departure, but honestly, as we've filled in the backstories on a lot of these people, its becoming clear that they haven't really developed a lot of good sustainable relationships between people in the present tense of the show. The island is the interesting tease of the show, but one expects it will be quite some time before that mystery gets rolled out with any more significance.
Back to this particular episode, it didn't really do anything for me. The death seems utterly contrived, the story lines that one really cares about are somewhat pointlessly tabled, and the show's general pacing problems (ie: Clair gets kidnapped, three episodes later people remember that Claire has been kidnapped) continue onward. That being said, I am still TOTALLY fascinated by the island, I think the show has some great characters and I am hopeful that they'll give us some more stories with a little more meat on the bones in the future.