Yeah, I've gathered that fans are pretty pissed off with Rob Thomas right now... personally, I put my VM watching on indefinite hiatus about 4 episodes into s3. It seems to me that after about 1/3 of s2, someone did a survey of what people loved about the show (the interaction between a great ensemble, the smart-outsider thing, the noir tributes (if you haven't watched Brick, you should), the personal connections in the mysteries, etc) and then decided to get rid of all of it in favour of cases-of-the-week that no one really cared about and a lot of new "regulars" which were given even LESS screen time than the old regulars, and plot lines that didn't go anywhere. It felt like the only remaining reason for watching it was that... well... KB is cute. A pity; it used to be on its way to being a great show.

Phew. Rant over. All IMO.