Right now, I bow to you. Fantastic points, all of them.

And yeah, we'll put up with bad story arcs if we get good charactrers. We'll even put up with bad characters if we get good story arcs. As someone said on my LJ today, CoE: epic fail on both, because the story sucks, and the characters are not the characters we've followed through S1 and S2

Mind if I link to this from my LJ, yet again? :)