Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26836114-20150730032342/@comment-4287993-20161228172829

I feel they failed to live up to the potential after the season 12 finale. The domestic violence was mostly dropped until the mid-season finale, and the Mer/Nathan/Maggie triangle also disappeared after three episodes. The premiere aside, most episodes have felt like fillers to me. And while they were good episodes (not the best, but still good), I wonder what made them to decide to resort to filler episodes when they had so much potential stories ready to be told.