PLUS they have these characters who have left, & probably will be having a few new ones. They already said the cast was much too large, this is why we get these huge gaps in time where we don't see some characters. John has really not been shown hardly at all. Jake, Ava, Kristen, Gwen, ..........don't miss them.....but Ron seems to focus on just one story, those characters are shown for several weeks, then disappear (like Jack & Jen) & then another storyline with different characters being seen for several weeks, etc. etc.