Thread:Corbierr/@comment-25576856-20150221010401/@comment-4816103-20150221013859

I'll admit some things were done better. The twist, for example, was actually brilliant. And you're right that some things make no sense. But, ehh...

For one thing, the treatment of Mick gets on my nerves. They promised closure with him and never followed through. It ticks me off how they portrayed him as in the wrong when he did absolutely nothing bad except dislike Jerome and why wouldn't he, when all he knew was Jerome being a jerk? Don't get me started on the kiss.

The only important characters were Nina, Fabian, Joy and Eddie. Everyone else in the scene at the end could have been replaced with furniture for all they did. While season 1 also had Nina and Fabian do the most stuff, it was better because rather than just having people run around pretending to be important, they focused on the emotions of everyone. They didn't have to be heroes to matter, and in fact not even Nina or Fabian really mattered because it wasn't about heroics or big actions or something like that, it was about staying alive and escaping.

I'd care more about everything being tied up at the end if there was more time to focus on the emotions. Yes, season 1 only really had Fabina's kiss. But it also focused throughout the episode on Joytricia, Jerome's redemption, Amfie being Amfie... they didn't need 10 second scenes to show everyone that things would be okay. Instead you got to have it more subtly throughout the episode, with small lines and scattered moments. The last few minutes of season 2 were all heartwarming, but they all went by too fast.

And most of season 2's finale didn't seem to really care about the characters, but the plot. Yeah, you had some moments, but even then it was more about tying up romance plots. The most character-focused parts were Eddie (and I still say Fabian would have made a better Osirian, even if it would have been obvious) and Victor at the end showing he had a heart. You had excitement and drama and stuff like that, but I prefer season 1's quiet tone where you see more to do with development, non-romantic relationships, and also the fact that they're all just highschoolers and not superheroes. It was a lot of romance and action in the season 2 finale, but I'd take development, friendship, powerful dialogue moments and good pacing anyday.

This isn't to say Season 2's finale is bad. Oh hell no. But season 1's finale felt a lot more fullfilling and interesting to me because I got to see the impact of everything on the characters and everything had been built up over the entire season. Everything was foreshadowed, and nobody felt like they were a waste of character.