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>I also can't help but wonder how she went nightmare-free while on the outs with Mike for so long if shit was this bad.
There is that one retconned-in scene where she crashed at Augustus' place pre-December, when Lucy had her first alleyway dream (that we know of). So pretending for a second that Taeshi knows what she's doing, that would suggest Lucy was having those nightmares during that entire period. It doesn't look like she was having any between her return and Eternal Flame, but maybe that's the reason for all that "back to square one" nonsense. Now that Mike has "opened old wounds", Lucy is having her nightmares again.

>Even after he gets "redeemed" I just expect him to go back to being everybody's doormat except this time Lucy occasionally lectures him about how he shouldn't be such a pushover.
It is indeed hard to believe Taeshi would ever hand in her license to torment gray cat. Even if Mike's evolution was a major plotpoint, she'd hammer the reset button like a wigged out coke fiend.