I know this has been stated before, but is anyone else disappointed by the direction this show is taking.

Okay, here's some of the problems I had with the last season.

• It's a mystery show with no mysteries anymore.
• As in many other shows, the jump forward seems to have been used to jettison all consistent characterization. Jump forwards should henceforth be called "we want to write a different show, but we're not sure how."
• I'm sick of shows that spend an entire season to build up a sweet romance (Jessica and Hoyt), only to skip the entire relationship afterward and jump to them breaking up.
• I'm sick of everyone turning into puppy dogs over Sooky and her magical fairy vagina. It's especially disgusting when someone like Eric abandons all previous characterization and jumps down the throat of Pam. It sickened me. The only possible explanation I could embrace for this behavior is that Sookie's blood is a roofie to vampires in the way their blood is a roofie to everyone else.
• Don't get me started on the absurd way that Eric acted like a toddler when he lost his memory. I felt queasy watching Sookie having sex with a toddler.
• Sookie's power in the book was distinct and limited. She could read minds, but it wasn't like reading a book. She had to catch people thinking about something. Her mind reading almost completely disappeared this season. They've ignored her book power, which is awesome, but limited, and they've replaced it with a deus ex machina fairy power that seems to do whatever the plot needs to advance.