The Norman/Emma clash is the story it clearly wants to tell, but maybe because it had to cut out a good chunk of manga detail, it didn't quite know how to set up the conflict without going through the Vegan Demons first. But we're here now and things are starting to get interesting. It's not actually surprising that the kids are being so black and white about the whole thing - disappointing, sure, but it's almost expected, given that last season, their main priority was to just survive Grace Fields.
Now that they're out in the world and are finding things out one after the other, everything they know to be real is getting turned on its head and they're now suddenly being forced to give a shit about things way bigger than they are. So Norman, who's only seen the worst of demons, wants to kill them all. Emma, who's met a few kind ones, doesn't want to kill them all, just leave and make things nice and peaceful and happy for everyone involved. Not so different from who they were before, but definitely watered down versions of their past selves, that's for sure.
Not saying this all justifies the bizarre pacing the show's suffered from so far - because the quality dip is certainly obvious - but that's how I'm choosing to see things so I don't give myself a near-aneurysm every time I watch this.
That girl with Norman is annoying
Ha, yeah, can't say I'm a big fan of hers either. In a better world where she and the other Lambda alumni were properly set up and introduced to us, we would be inclined to give more of a shit. But because their entrance in the story was so hurried, they look more like caricatures obviously placed there to go directly against Emma and Co. instead of torture victims we should have sympathy for.
