Perhaps if the awful and erratic scheduling decisions hadn't turned viewers away, Season Five might have followed. I also watched the series to the end and while I agree that Season Four was a bit disappointing (whenever it threatened to get really exciting, it seemed almost like a concious decision not to take it up to the next notch of tension, unlike the previous seasons where the stakes would just get higher and when you thought the situation couldn't get any worse, it did!), and while it wasn't such edge-of-the-seat stuff, it was a gold mine for long term fans. Without Season Four we would have missed such delights as Beckett's attack on Channing, or meeting up with Mr. Dent after four years! It was just the sort of thing fans were waiting for.
We got to find out a good deal about Ros and Beckett's past and family, and while there were low points (namely 'Girl Power', 'Pandora's Box' and 'Jewel Control'), the rest were pretty good, with intrigue (uncertainty over Adam), high emotion ('Absent Friends'), and good old fashioned fisticuffs ('The Two Becketts'). It wasn't as good as the other seasons, to be sure, but my motto is 'more 'BUGS' is more 'BUGS'', and you can't say fairer than that.
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