A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR has always been a likable episode. But if you have to tell somebody to slap you to bring yourself back to consciousness, aren't you sufficiently conscious already?
I always liked this, but then the preachyness began to wear on me.
That's it! That's the thing that I used not to pay much attention to but that now I find more and more annoying. It's ruined a few episodes for me.