I'm unimpressed, but we'll see. Last year, the show finished with a spate of strong episodes. The only exception was "Charge of This Post", and I'd rather pretend that didn't happen if you please. So would the writers and producers, apparently, since the incident therein was never mentioned or even indirectly alluded to ever again.
Still, the spoilers don't seem promising:
-Lindsay and Danny are "forever bonded", but their destiny is "dashed"? AHAHAHAHAHAHA! If I ever needed proof that this franchise was catering to pubescent girls and lonely, bored, housewives, there it is, encapsulated in all its putrescent glory. Good God. "Destiny" is for soap operas and fanfiction.
If the D/L ship is truly dashed upon the rocks of writerly caprice, I will be happy, but like so many others, I have the sinking suspicion that it's going to be an excuse for more yes-no, will they-won't they garbage, and if that's the case, I'm done. I didn't sign up for cheap emotional manipulation and precious minutes of screen time wasted on clandestine clinches in lab supply closets and longing looks over cooling corpses. Not even Flack pretty will be sufficient justification for my continued patronage. Unless he's buck naked underneath a red Spartan cloak, then, oh, baby, am I there. What can I say? I'm weak.
If the relationship does come to a definitive end, one has to wonder why they invested so much time and effort in building it up? Did they plan for it to end this way all along, or was it aborted after fan response was less positive than they had hoped?
What reasons will they give? If it's something lame like Sonny Sassone threatening Lindsay from beyond the cell, I'm going to scream, but if it's because Louie emerges from his coma and needs Danny to help him recover, I'm all over it.
Actually, I want to see Louie break up the impending consummation of the D/L relationship by bashing in the door to Danny's apartment with his motorized wheelchair and declaring, "Danny, I'm your brother," while the Vader theme swells. OK, maybe not, but it would still be more awesome and less nauseating than watching them swap spit.
-Mac finally gets called to account. Huzzah! Since we all know that Mac, Defender of Justice, can do no wrong, the outcome isn't in doubt, but it will be interesting to see how he handles the ignominy of being under investigation. Not well, I suspect, and if at any point during the story arc, he delivers a chest-thumping screed about how his record speaks for itself and they should know he wasn't at fault, I'm going to point and laugh because that defense worked for neither Danny nor Flack, and he should know better than to use it.
-The Stella continuity glitch proves that the writers don't give fig about their canon and have planned nothing. They just go with what sounds good and fits the drama that week, and to hell with everything else. In S1, Stella says she was in St. Basil's until she was 18, and now she was in foster care with a family affluent enough to live in a brownstone? My ass. How stupid do you think I am, and how little respect do you have for me as a viewer?
I think you better ready that Spartan cape and the body oil, dear writers.