But are the logged in ? <| sep |> Take of my facepalms and leave . Please . <| sep |> I see you are a fellow quebley lover ! Happy late Thanksgiving ! <| sep |> While I don ' t blame it all on the writing , I don ' t get why people love S 4 so much . Apart from a couple of really great scenes so far , I ' m only up to Ep 9 , it ' s been boring , unentertaining , and a totally different show from the first three seasons . Fiona yes , she was a horn toad in season 1 , then skipped for two whole seasons . She replaces one unexciting bf with another . They dragged that part out too long , and could have introduced the brother an episode or two earlier . The timing of the affair with the brother feels like it was compelled by he show schedule instead of dramatic pacing . Writingwise , it comes across as if the writers , not Fiona , is the one ignorant of the ability to block people from calling or texting . Structurally , they changed Fiona ' s role in a way that ' s forced staff meeting for writers we ' re flipping Fiona and Lip ' s roles this season , make it work . Frank crippling him crippled the show . Gone are most of his creative scams that kept us so entertained . Dognapping , seriously ? Sammi daughter ex machina , enough said . No real character development , so that when she flip flops from disgust at the potential incest to becoming the devoted daughter of a total stranger , we don ' t mind she was just playdough for several episodes till they baked her into a FrankDebbieCarl casserole . Ian obviously written out the first half for external reasons . Lip Yeah , I get the college is different from high school , but what happened to his clever resourcefulness ? He loses a robot battle , he swipes a laser . He does poorly on a paper , he gripes to the TA ? He ' s in Chicago , not really enjoying himself at school , why isn ' t he home at least every other weekend ? And MIT ? Oh , that must have been last season ' s writers , we ' re pretending it never happened . Mickey . Though incredibly sympathetic at times , he ' s largely unbelievable , and has been ever since he and Ian got boners while brawling and decided to wrestle under the blanket . He shows absolutely no interest in guys other than Ian , he comes from this hyper macho household , and we ' re supposed to believe that he ' s a total bottom in bed without a trace of angst over being a bottom , I get the angst about coming out gay . Then he talks all his wife ' s coworkers into jumping ship , and the madam doesn ' t pull a gun on him ? She just calls up her supplier for next day delivery , like a restaurant calling their Coke distributor ? Debbie introduced to us as the Alex Keaton of the south side , hormones change her from an entrepreneur to a single minded virginity terminator . And Fiona , finally with a reliable 95 job early in the season , doesn ' t have that talk with her . It ' s a reasonable plot line , to have her trying to get laid all season , but they didn ' t have to suck her brains out at the same time . Hint to writers Fiona is not Debbie ' s mom , don ' t make their dynamic a simple duplicate of a motherdaughter relationship . Carl I guess he ' s the one character they pulled off successfully . Except for that lameness with the dogs .