Yes, I'm definitely coming round to the idea that I would be expecting them to mess up and be pleased at what they get right. Pet's idea's fabulous isn't it but :( the number of people who have commented on EKP approving of Ingo's behaviour has been suprising and I don't know how well that idea can work in something like a soap, I think it more has to portray how people can and do react behave on a more direct level because, by it's nature a soap is something people integrate into their everyday lives so they're not looking at in quite as introspectively as they would a movie/series/book because there isn't generally the time or inclination because they fill a part of the normal human interaction (sorry, I've also been pondering the purpose of soaps/reality TV and their place in human lives, the effects of that...yes, I'm that dull!)
Although, as you mentioned it, the way it ended with Marc was rather nicely Roman NOT making a choice and I hope they'll push that into his interactions, if only because I want Roman to grow as a character and not just personally but for that growth to spread to his interactions with others.
But I really love your theory on Mike's death and will be distracting my brain with shiney things so I don't jump head first into that one.