I don't watch Lost, no, but that's pretty much the issue with near-omnipotent characters in fiction. Although I get the temptation to have them. (I actually used to really like the Ellimist, but after my second reread of TEC I don't much anymore. It's just kind of . . . ridiculous and unnecessary. I was amused at the parallels between Father and Mother from Remnants, though.)

The problem with Tobias and Elfangor, as has been discussed many times, is she didn't *do* anything with it. So why bother? Whereas at least Marco and Visser One got lots of fun murder-y times together.

Never thought of the Jake/Tom vs. Marco/Visser One thing before but now that you bring it up, hell yeah.