Hurley is bummed because his story is going nowhere.
I think that's the biggest problem of LOST in its second season.
Ever since they introduced the second group of survivors, led by Michelle Rodriguez's tepid character Anna Lucia, the quality of the story has taken a really sharp nosedive. Right now, all it seems to have produced is the reunion of Rose with her husband. Okay, it's a nice little hook, but overall it has no impact on the story.
Every single storyline of the primary group of survivors is spinning its wheels and doing nothing productive, just like punching that number into the computer. Locke? Same Locke. Sayid? Same Sayid. We've hardly seen Jack, Kate and Shannon. The three guys with the second group, Jin, Michael and Sawyer, have had no development other than Mike's psychosis about his kid. Boring and overwrought. I don't particularly care about Charlie and Claire. And most criminally, we get nothing more about Hugo, who is the glue of the whole story. Very, very frustrating.
What should have been obvious to the writers of the show is that they were already pushing it with so many characters. It was an acheivement to get viewers to care about the first group. Now you add at least two more "major" characters in Anna Lucia and Eko? And you give them the lion's share of the first eight episodes of Season Two?
Way to kill any momentum from the first season.
Now with the three-week hiatus between episodes 9 and 10, I'm losing interest in the show bigtime. I still want to know more about the stories of Kate and especially Hugo, but after episode 9, I'm not hopeful.
(More to come)
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