So good! Echoes many of my own sentiments. Thus far, Season 11 has been a mixed bag — the characters I don’t give two craps about getting screen time, new, crazy bad guys with the same Whisperers, Wolves, Saviors, etc. dynamics & a band name, and dynamic, character-building awesomeness peppered in-between. Season 8, for me, was definitely the worst — from plot points to horrible dialogue — if S9 hadn’t righted the ship, I would’ve given up. Now, I must watch through to the bitter end