sneezetease

spoilers ahoy. I really think that the second season was not supposed to be produced- that they expected to finish it in 12 episodes and that was their ending.  I think that because in the first episode of the second season, they undid everything they did in the finale of season 1.  They brought everyone back to life and then it became a soap opera- a girl in a coma, now she loses her memories, a girl in a wheelchair whose in love with the boy who's in love with her bed ridden sister and on and on and on.  There were a lot of moments in this season where I thought, wow they did that just to get a reaction out of me, it was unnecessary and now that my shock has worn off, cheesy.  I was disappointed by that.  I also did not like that Slaine basically retired to a room and pointed and shouted out orders, no more actual fighting for him.  All of that aside, I still enjoyed it very much.  I loved the story arc with Slaine's corruption in his quest for power all for love.  It reminded me so much of Anakin in Star Wars.  You start watching and you think he's the hero and you're just enjoying watching this sweet kid but you're actually seeing how the famous Darth Vader came around and the origin of the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."  That monsters are not creatures who just are born evil, they're people like you, like me, like Slaine from season 1 who just wanted to protect the person they loved.  It was a tragic story.  I think they fell off the wagon a little in the end with Slaine.  I wasn't sure why he started acting like a robot all of a sudden- when Seylum told him this was not what she wanted, I thought he would at least react a little or stop since everything he had done was for her happiness, but he openly said to his assistant that he didn't care if they understood in time at all and showed no emotion.  I wanted to know what he was thinking in the last few episodes and that didn't really come except in a flash here and there- when he fought Inaho and in the cell.  The ending was incredibly touching in that room, but I was unsatisfied that the war ended that way.  I really thought they would need to destroy aldnoah as a technology to equalize martians and humans and something would make the earthlings take in the martians to live together on earth.  I also have unanswered questions such as why did Slaine not gain the power of Aldnoah when Seylum resucitated him when they met but Inaho gained it when he resusitated her?