I dunno if it's just me, but I think the writing is getting worse. The past episode yet again had little surprise. Every episode anymore has absolutely nothing to do with the main quest, and is just another little episodic sidequest. At first I was able to tolerate the episodic nature, because unlike Shlup I didn't expect any better quality than that (this is not
The Sopranos quality writing, here). But it's either getting worse or I'm just getting tired of it.
(SPOILER)There was NO drama behind Cara's "death." She just... died, so suddenly and anticlimactic that it was so obvious that she was coming back somehow.