I thought they started out strong with Lyla's religious storyline, but by the end it felt to me like it all looped back around to Tim, which -- since I completely agree with you about them both being a little too in love with Jason for that to ever be right -- just doesn't quite work for me. I mean, it's Friday Night Lights, it's entirely possible these writers have some trick up their sleeve. But right now it feels like one big wasted opportunity for development to come of a character arc, because I don't even know where Lyla is anymore. She's stagnant.

BUT YEAH, man, getting rid of Lyla would have made so much more sense than getting rid of Street -- she and Smash were, among other things, the least wrapped up in everyone else. It'd be a little bit sad to lose her all unresolved like this, but it's better than wasting her. And she really just needs to break her cycle (your paragraph about her series of failures is spot-on). Ugh, show.