Been trying to analyze this the past few days and yeah here's whats up. Remember when opie used to fight management about how they were not allowing them to do shit? Here's whats going on.. opie has become subdued. Definition of subdued: quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled: "After the argument he was much more subdued.". He's given up, surrendered and he's turned to the dark side. Now he's become like sirius management. The show has become politically correct. It's sanitized and mainstream friendly. He's just given up. It's fuckin sad.