[Conquest]

sure seems like a bandwagon to me. Sure there are plenty of plot twists, but that doesn't make them random. All in all I would say the show has picked up speed for sure, but I kind of expected that from watching it from the beginning.

I don't think an average ending would have worked well for the show. It will either be a great ending putting it way up there on a list of great anime, or it will crash and burn.