^^ I agree. There's too many characters that just aren't even in it anymore and we don't know what happened to them. It seems like they're trying to do a huge plot twist when there is really nothing left to twist.
I've seen the show through a girlfriend, she insists she doesn't like it either but has seen every season. I can't get past the 28 year old women pretending to be sixteen year old girls bit. It reminds me of the original 90210 in this regard.