It was a forgone conclusion that the Pegasus was upper cased f**ked from the word go.
I guess they wanted to get back too the roots of the show and while I hate too see the BEAST destroyed, I am kinda glad they moved back toward the original theme of the show. Besides it was like they really didn't know what to do with the BEAST as most of the story lines for the young gal seemed haphazard at best.
But still loosing her does suck.