Season 4 starts off kinda badly, I'll admit, but I do think it gets a lot better -- I think the writers took forever to figure out how to write L&C as a married couple. TPvLL is flat-out awful, but Dead Lois Walking almost makes up for it. The best bits were from about halfway in the season until the last few eps. I remember watching the Lex Files and lamenting to my FOLC friend, "it's the best show on tv, and no one's watching it!" But that stupid wedding w/guardian angel turned off a lot of people, and by then Disney was actively trying to kill the show. <sigh>
It's just as well, I suppose. From what we heard in spoilers, their season five might have been simply dreadful. Fanfic's much better
PJ