I think many of us are remembering the Bravo years through rose-colored glasses. Even in Season 1 there was a lot of drama: "Project Drunkway", Morgan the undependable model, Wendy Pepper and the missing photo of her daughter, and of course Shoegate. It's just that the designers then were so much more talented than the lackluster wannabes now, we tend to remember the clothes. I find it really hard to care who gets auffed, they're all so boring.