Don't get me wrong. There is much I like about S4. And much that I love in the first half of the season. But it is also the season that offered me the first ep that made me seriously consider giving up the show. (Obviously, I was able to talk myself off that particular ledge, because I'm still here.)

I won't get into specifics (I think I might have written about it once upon a time when it first aired), but the short version is that I didn't really like the direction they started taking the angel arch. It started out with a lot of promise, but then went wonky for me.

There is a lot of potential in the season that I feel kind of got derailed, or that I would have rather seen go in a different direction, which becomes very evident in S5.

Mileage varies.