I wouldnt call the concept of history that repeats itself, the son re-walkin the path of his father lazy writin. Also, I like more the way they choose to tell the story. I prefer a good story over action action action. Sure, we pretty much what happen to Otoya, or Yuri, or Jiro. The fun part -for me, of course- is to discover HOW they ended like that. And lately seems that also the 2008 side is startin to take a direction, this can be good...maybe. Till now 2008 has been kinda disappointin to me, so...anyway, we'll see.