I just started watching WCTH, and can say that it started off with a freshness and moved into a stereo type series. I think I started feeling differently with the series and started guessing exactly what was going to happen. Probably more so with Elizabeth, I knew right away who she was going to choose in favor of her next love. Though I hoped she would stay in character as the start of the series, she did not. My first disappointment, each character seemed to fall right into the stereo type role rather than be the original freshness. Its as if a new writer came in and rewrote each character to match our typical stereo type world. Hope Valley at first represented forgiveness and redemption, and now its all about selfishness, and greed, with Elizabeth's character turning back to being snobbish, and selfish, and with the new characters bringing in even more of the same, like a soap opera. I give the series as I continue to watch it a 3. Hoping it turns back around the a humble Hope Valley town and not a typical its all about me town.