Yeah actually I lurked for a moment at the boards not long back, and noticed Connie's name missing from the moderator list. Which really confused me because, well... it's Connie! And she was always really urging others to not give up and look at the positives of the ship. I'll have to definitely drop a line someitme :)

"it seems whichever ship starts out the season, they are always more interested in developing UST of the rival ship, and suck at writing actual functioning couples together."

Ha, I've noticed that! Since I haven't watched any this season, how long do you think until Clana ends, and will it be on bad terms? But yeah, the writers really don't know how to write functional couples. It almost surprises me to hear about the lack of Clana kisses (not that I'm complaining about it in the least!) I'm just hoping to hear about some good thngs this season, heh.