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I loved the Richard backstory and I think the actor did a tremendous job.
I just find a good bit of this Jacob / MIB stuff to be very boring. Unless there is an amazingly clever twist that reveals the world (outside of the Island) is not what it seems, I'm not understanding how keeping MIB trapped on the Island has stopped malevolence and "evil" from spreading. The world that the survivors come from - all of the people Jacob contrives to bring to the Island for the purpose of proving *his* point (which, frankly, makes him an asshole) - is not a Garden of Eden free from sin or pain or injustice, etc. so what exactly is he saving the world from? Is he saying that all mankind is capable of good and evil, it comes down to the choices we make, and MIB would just be too capable of tipping the scales way too far in one direction?
I know the show has always been leading up to an eventual good/evil battle. I guess I find the previous allusions to and hints more interesting than the actual Jacob/MIB characters. Even if they turn out to be the bible's Jacob and Esau, I do like that they play more like the gods in Myths. Lost of the Titans!
At this point, just give me more of Frank the pilot. I love him to pieces.
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