The who-is-stronger exposition dumps are the problem. I don’t give a shit about Soul Society - that’s not the show I was enjoying. That’s just what it became, for endless repetitive nonsense, after the formulaic-but-distinct first season made a ton of money.

If there was no first season - if it actually had been advertised on what’s in the second season onward - I would not have finished a single episode. Total apathy. But because I cared about what it was, and hoped we might get more of that, I still feel betrayed.