Urgh, and we're back to the soap opera. Again, of course there always has been the soap-opera element in this show. But in the earlier seasons it was nicely balanced with a glimpse into what's going on in Britain and the world at that time. I'm sick of whiny, privileged boys, lamenting their fate. Of course, it's not fun to be in the news constantly, to be harrassed etc. But viewing yourself as the spare who can't outshine the firstborn... get some therapy. (And Kate's mother should get some therapy as well - although, to be honest, she couldn't have forced that gap year on Kate if she hadn't gone... so...)
But I think what this show's suffering from is that all these events aren't that far in the past. Most of the audience remember reading that in the papers or seeing it on the news. So, it doesn't have that informative aspect that the earlier seasons had, I guess, but is simply repetitive and boring.
