I must say though, that I felt they lost a LOT of potential character stuff in that one-year gap - they've been doing these large gaps recently, and I don't like it. They're losing a LOT of character-development potential, which is what this series has always been from the beginning - a character drama. It seems like that's becoming lost in the let's-jump-ahead-to-the-good-parts attitude.
I must say though, that I felt they lost a LOT of potential character stuff in that one-year gap - they've been doing these large gaps recently, and I don't like it. They're losing a LOT of character-development potential, which is what this series has always been from the beginning - a character drama. It seems like that's becoming lost in the let's-jump-ahead-to-the-good-parts attitude.