Thread:Staraptor Kwan/@comment-25034020-20180222055703/@comment-26426093-20180406082152

Oh...now that you mention it, those crossover episodes were super weird once you got past the nostalgia, mainly because the plots in both episodes were subpar. That assumption was correct, but after reading your post it made me realize just how things went so wrong at such an early stage in Season 2. I guess not even Soleil, Luminas and Tristar were able to keep Stars from ending, by then it was already too late for the entire series.

For me, while I'm aware that ratings throughout Season 2 weren't that high, the real rot began during the Venus Ark exchange student arc-that was the first time when I had an inkling of Season 2's eventual decline. Having the three main characters (excluding Ako) stay at Venus Ark doing basically nothing was a clear indicator that the writers had no idea what they were supposed to be doing at all. And let's not even talk about the whole Star Wings fiasco-Bandai should not have blatantly copied the original series constellation concept, nor forcefully structure the main story around them, thus leaving little room for anything else.

I'm not saying that I hate Season 2 as a whole, in fact I do appreciate some of its strengths; it's just that overall, I'm still bittersweet over the fact that Bandai could have improved things, but ultimately didn't do so.