Once the second season rolled around and we got to learn about the time loops and the chessmaster and all that cool stuff I found the momentum was lost, the suspense dried up ( there's no more demonic gods playing games with fate, it's just a hallucination brought on by a plague, whoop-de-doo!) and I was left watching Our Heroes fail as they are cut down by the Big Bad's forces, only too follow said Big Bad's origin stories for to damn long. At least someone ought to have had some doubts unless the Syndrome makes everyone give into groupthink like total idiots. Seriously, WTF? I can appreciate the Power of Friendship thing, but Lain preserve me, that's bullshitty. Sure, we got some great hints about what could have been causing the murders: so it's a local sickness and NOT a demon curse? But with this came some stupid characterization which struck me as hopelessly naive: once the gang discovers that Rena has killed someone in self defense and has then been gruesomely cutting up the bodies to dispose of them, everyone is immediately fine with this and gladly helps to hide the remains. Then, the idiot ball started being handed around as the season closed. The first arc scared the shit out of me - I couldn't sleep well after watching episode 3, and I'm the sort of guy who takes a shower after watching Psycho just so he can say that he took a shower after watching Psycho. The series worked for me during the first season, what with all the suspenseful murder-mystery stuff going on and where the kicker was that no one had any idea who or what was causing the murders. I finished off the second season, and, while ultimately satisfied, I was somewhat disappointed.
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