I had friends who were loaning me the series and forcing, I mean, encouraging me to stick with it; otherwise I probably would have folded around S2. It really got a lot better around S4 or S5, I thought, at which point I really started enjoying it. And (probably related) surprisingly dark for Trek.

Yeah, the only reason I made it to HP even was that my sister and parents were visiting at the time... sister demanded we go, and parents watched the baby :)