offcourse reading this topic and then watching the show really helped with tension
anyone heard of **SPOILER** or something in title?....
but anyway, Shannon was pretty useless charchter from the begining.... OTOH, now we have new gruop that will join old one with many storis to tell, we have at least 6 new people for backstories now that they got on the other side of the island.... killing one of least interesting charachters that was also mostly useless all the time is sure better then killing Sawyer who is kind of mystery still, he adds to the show alot and basically we still dont know his full story....
Shannon's story is basically dumb blonde.... the end.... not really some choice for writers....
PLUS!!!!... they can build tension between newcomers and Saed now, which will boil somewhere along the line for sure....