User blog comment:UFO Editor/What do you want in Season 8?/@comment-1586735-20110706181951/@comment-392210-20110706195835

Season 7 barely had a mystery at all. The whole thing with the vendettas is that the writers try to build a mystery around what the villains will do next, how the big climax turns out, and ultimately, like you said, it usually falls flat. The climaxes are often somewhat predictable. They usually put in a nice twist, like the bomb in the detonator and Beth's ashes killing Felicia, but the hostage situations themselves are usually seen coming. Marc Cherry has said himself in season 5 that the mystery was what Dave would do next. And I think they've been following that formula too much lately. I always wonder what the housewives will do week after week as well. Are those mysteries too?