“Season-long arcs”? 
They spent way too much time dithering about with those stupid Forces. Four Forces, four episodes, with maybe a fifth one to resolve everything. They didn’t even need to be sequential. Intersperse the introduction of each Force with episodes featuring Godspeed. Fight Godspeed for a few episodes, introduce a Force, then fight Godspeed again. Have an episode with the secret origin of August Heart – I still don’t know what the heck he was all about.