I was hoping for a lot more than I've got so far.
Could we gift them with some talented fic writers do you think?

not just Jack and Gwen.
Reading the_royal_anna's post about Firefly, it again reminded me how fantastically good Joss is at this stuff. At the end of the Firefly pilot I knew who all the characters were and what they were like. Joss can build character exposition into any scene.

RTD may be following in their tradition.
Well that's no fun! *pouts*