Hello gas leak year. Yeah, it is a drop off, isn’t it. I think the most telling thing is the difference in how Abed is written. I’d be hard pressed to fully commit to the theory of Abed as Dan Harmon’s author avatar, but it’s clear that Harmon knew what he was doing on an innate level with how that character is written, and this season fully misses the mark there. He becomes sharpened, crueller, lacking in the heart that was actually there.