Who Cares about Sawyer vs Kate vs Juliet?

Lately, I've been doing a lot of pondering over the other castaways of "Lost." Not the members of "the gang," but all the others who crashed along with "the gang." I guess it stems from the fact that this season's main plot line is having the Oceanic 6 get back to the island to supposedly "save their friends" and that makes me wonder if by friends they mean the remaining members of "the gang" who are stuck on the island or "the gang" and the remaining castaways too. I mean, it doesn't appear really that they're that friendly with the rest of the castaways as they never (or more like rarely) do anything with them, invite them to all of their Lost-style games, or even do much in the way of talking to them.

So what do those people do all day? Do they run the camp and do the cooking, be the worker bees as it were, or do they just hang out all day? Do they also see dead relatives or run into the smoke monster? Has anyone elso run into Jacob's cabin, stumbled upon another hatch, or mysteriously recovered from any life afflicting ailments? Considering that a lot of "the gang" has strange connections to each other, does this mean too that the other castaways also have strange connections to the gang or even other castaways?: And, if they have, have they told anyone else so that Jack & Locke consider their stories upon the island's myriad of mysteries or does nothing exciting to happen any of them? Or maybe they're like everyone else on the show, running into strange after strange thing and never actually telling anybody?

Which raises another question, how much do they know about what's going on? Does Jack tell them about all the mysterious hatches and the button and the Others and three toed statues or does everyone else just think they're just stuck on some mildly strange island that is altogether not that bad of a place to be stuck on what with an entire hatch full of food and showers? And if that's true, considering all the things that have happened to them, what must they be thinking? After all, they're just sitting their, lying on the beach, and all of a sudden they're traveling through time and are getting shot at by flaming arrows. There must have been many times in the past couple of months on the island where they've thought to themselves "what the fuck?"

But what if they do know something is strange about the island and some of the craziness involved? Are they then even at all pissed off that whenever something happens, Jack takes off with Kate or Locke or Sayid and nobody else? Do they ever get insulted, thinking basically that they're the uncool kids to the gang's cool kids? And do you think they're even at all a bit pissed that every once in awhile, when "the gang" does something, even worse things happen to them, not the least of which is traveling back and forth through time?

And finally, just how many of them are there? We know a couple of them have been killed and two got killed last week. After three years away from the island, Locke and Sawyer (yes, and Juliet) just might be the only people left and if so, is it really worth going back to? It's not like anybody liked Locke and Sawyer's kind of dick. Maybe they should start the show like they do on BSG and announce just how many people are left on the island, changing the number anytime somebody dies. And, of course, adding to the total everytime somebody mysteriously comes back from the dead. That way, maybe we'd care that not just members of "the gang" get off the island, but everyone else does too.