Finished S2, figured I’d give my overall thoughts now.
-Already said in a previous post, animation and pacing are much better. Feels more focused on a story (Vox and his takeover attempt of Heaven) unlike S1; which was all over the place and had terrible pacing, Vox is the standout character, best villain of the series by far. All the flaws I’ve pointed out before (charlie and vaggie, the excessive cursing etc.) all still exist, and Charlie feels more retarded in this season than she was in season 1, but at least the focus isn’t fully on her and split across multiple characters. The songs are all mostly forgettable bar Gravity or Vox Populi.
-For a throwaway season, the ending was pretty much what I expected. It was cheesy af, but it at least worked for being in a season that’s basically filler, I’ve heard mixed things on it, but just remembering that this is meant to be filler kind of makes sense that if you were expecting someone to die or something to happen with stakes, it probably won’t.
-This season felt like it was setting up things for the future instead of giving any major development to characters. Sure you had some here and there but it just now feels like this is only the beginning. I think that’s the biggest problem I have with S2, but I can forgive it because Vox was so fun to watch.
-A little disappointed the Lute storyline got halted there at the end, but I guess it makes sense that they’re saving her for a later one. I’m definitely curious what Alastor might be up to since he beat the fraud allegations now, if he’ll continue his edgelord shtick; because it was really fun watching him ragebait Vox like that and playing 4d chess.
-The fight/action scenes continue to be a stand-out, Vox vs Alastor was some anime shit and I loved it. It’s so weird to me how Viv can do action so well, and yet she can’t figure out what kind of genre or premise her shows even are.
Overall, I hate to say I enjoyed this season but I did. Sure, it’s flawed garbage but I can tolerate it over what Helluva Boss is. I guess you can argue Hazbin has the animation, character designs, world, and Helluva just has gay melodrama now, with Stolas being the root cause for a lot of my disdain for it. It’s no masterpiece, but it was at least entertaining to keep my attention week by week for like an hour or two.