I recently had the chance to watch Seasons 1 - 2 and am currently at the veery begining of 4. And I'm wondering if anyone else thinks that maybe the direction of the series went somewhat downhill after the second season? I thought the first season was excellent, I really enjoyed Kate Lockley's character and the early episodes of the first two seasons just struck me as being of really good quality and well-written and didn't seem to lack focus. Come late season 3/early season 4 you have the business with Holtz being wrapped up finally, Connor is banished from the hotel, Cordelia ascends but then returns as someone completely different, and then a beast shows up to end the world but was actually just a cover for "Jasmine" who was really pulling the plot strings from all along.
Maybe it's just me but it seems like they might have lost focus around the time Cordy disappeared and then returned, so many different many subplots/plot points and a character who ultimately appeared to be more or less useless except for the creation of earthbound Jasmine.

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