Hey, great post (posts, actually - your reaction posts are always entertaining and thoughtful). I found myself saying yes, yes, yes to most of these - you articulate a lot of things about S2 that I've enjoyed but have been overshadowed, in fandom and meta at least, by the negatives. I had *so many* problems with S1 but in the end loved it anyway, so I'm in it for the long haul in S2 as well.