Endangered Species (Lost)

This was bad fanfiction. Let's be honest here. I have no problems with fanfiction in general, but this had all of the hallmarks of a badly inserted character story with the exception of terrible grammar and spelling.Faith is self-absorbed and self-righteous to an extreme. Admittedly, those characteristics are not that uncommon with Lost characters, but they do not work well when we are stuck living in one character's head with no break. She's also boring. How do you make a character who studies poisonous snakes and was involved in an enviromentalist assassination plot boring? Like this. This is how. Take notes.Faith's (only) other important character trait is her naivety. I have never before seen it's like. There was every sign of there being something really fishy going on, and she completely missed everything because she was too self-absorbed to even notice. An all-expenses-paid trip to Australia by a 'research group' apparently too poor to operate in any place other than an abandoned shopping mall and with a staff that apparently consists of two people, one of insists she is just 'PR'? A boyfriend (who is a complete berk, by the way) who suddenly changes his tune on your relationship with your advisor after being spoken to by the PR lady, even going so far as to set up a meeting with him under false pretenses? Constant overhearing of discussion of a secret plan that comes up whenever you and your boyfriend argue? It's made worse by the constant refrain of "Think with your head, not your heart" that is apparently brought up every other page to be completely ignored. Is something suspicous going on? Then count on Faith to ignore it in favor of thinking about herself and her relationship with her boyfriend or her advisor.I really didn't have high expectations for this. The start wasn't too bad. But the problem is that nothing happened. Faith is, at best, reactive, and the vast majority of the time is simply passive. Maybe it is hard to write a character that you know canonically dies--she can't do too much without messing up the show's (significantly better) plotline. But I made it through the whole book without ever figuring out why I should care even a little bit that she was dead, and that is a sign of bad writing.