Speaking of Doakes, I think he annoys me for the same reason that Deb does – both of them constantly run around telling everyone else how they should feel. Or, how they should show how they’re feeling, I guess. It’s stupid. Particularly Deb. You know, I think I’d quite like it if the Ice Truck Killer offed Deb. She’s asking for it. You know, most of the things that used to enrage me about this series are now sort of acceptable. I like Michael C Hall a lot more now. He seems to narrowly avoid most of the clunkier lines; most of the rampant stupidity is handed off to Deb, instead. But lots of the characters are changing; they’re not being portrayed in the same way they were at the beginning of the series, and though in some cases this is a good thing, in others it’s a bit nonsensical. Take Laguerta, for example. To begin with, she was the bitch who was preventing Deb from getting a promotion; pig-headed, obsessed with her media coverage, a sly politician but a rubbish cop. Now, though, she’s become sympathetic, even funny, and more determined to catch the right guy than just look good to the press. I’m not sure why, though? If anything, the altered Laguerta just makes Deb seems even more annoying by comparison. In other news, I still really hate Paul. Won’t someone in prison please kill him in his sleep? The Lesson of the Week seems to have been “don’t lie to kids or else”, I guess. They’re getting less clear cut. Is that good or not? I like the way that the nauseating Steadicam was finally used in order to be deliberately dizzying this time, rather than just because the production team doesn’t own a tripod, but that was pretty much a flashback sequence, wasn’t it? And it’s not as if they don’t flag up every tiny bit of evidence as they go along anyway… I think I’m going to hang my decision on whether or not I liked this series overall on the season finale. Not long to go now.