Season 2 was disappointing. I never recovered from the second to last episode of Season 1. I still see him as the heart of the show; everyone else is amusing; he's the emotional core. Maybe they killed him to teach us fear, to make other characters' lives more precious. It did exactly the opposite for me. I learned life isn't precious; I hardened. Any character can drop tomorrow, so we should cherish what we have without fearing the loss. But what is there to cherish without him? Other characters are ignoble or uninteresting. I could see some blossoming in the coming seasons, but Season 2 was really a recoil from the aforementioned episode -- as no one filled the emotional hole it continued to callous. Not as many major characters dropped as in Season 1, but not as many seized center stage either. The entire season felt like subplots.
The first few episodes of Season 1 were stunning to me; the rest of the season disappointed or devastated those expectations; Season 2 didn't bounce back.
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