User blog comment:UFO Editor/What do you want in Season 8?/@comment-1586735-20110706181951/@comment-392210-20110706201010

People often complain about Betty's mystery. Well, she had one. It lasted all season. We assumed it was done with and solved by episode 14, and 10 episodes later (despite 4 absences by Betty in their midst :P) it was resurfaced and the ending had a pretty juicy twist. Sure, it wasn't like Mary Alice's secrets, but it was still a season-long mystery that ended with flashbacks and a twist. Season 5's mystery ended in episode 10. The remaining 14 episodes were a whole lot of stalling from Dave to keep him around until the climax in the finale. The outcome was kinda predictable, but it was tense, and Teri Hatcher was amazing. Season 6's mystery was so awesome and reminiscing of the earlier in the first 10 episodes! I was so excited that we finally had a housewife that wasn't running because someone in her family did something (son who killed, husband who beat her). She was the actual culprit. Angie had killed a man and made her husband and son go into hiding with her. And then, in episode 11, they brought up the name "Patrick Logan" (FYI, in the same episode they brought up the name "Patrick Scavo", weird...). And everything went downhill from there, leading the path to the cheesiest villain the show has ever featured, one who was evil for the sake of being evil and for the sake of there being a showdown to supposedly make things more interesting. Even the strangler mystery became obvious to several people, including me, after episode 8 aired, because of all the "product placement" of Eddie over the season. :P Paul buying up the houses was pretty great. I had no idea what that was for all along, and when he revealed everything to the neighbors in episode 9 I was very pleasantly surprised. That was a pretty smart plan. All in all it sounded slightly ludacris, yes, but it was still a very smart idea, that incorporated that story one learns in psychology about the people trapped in cells with buttons. They learn that there are other cells with other people in them, so they either wait a few hours for the doors to open up and everyone gets out, or they push the button and whoever pushes it first gets out while the others are left in their cells to rot. And no one knows how the others will react. I loved that story and I loved its use on the show, one of the cleverest things of the last few years. But that little cliffhanger from episode 1 with Felicia having a friend on the lane turned out kinda lame too, much like her friendship with Karen. Also, anyone notice how Mike is never around when he should be? He was Felicia's friend on the lane, only he was living in an apartment in the city behind a gas station. He was the reason Dave moved to the lane, only he was also far away (to the point of being nothing but a bug with a hat in MJ's p.o.v.) and had to be moved back in with no idea of who his landlord and landlady were. Just a nice piece of trivia. :P