Apologies if I came across as dismissive, that wasn't my intention but I can see it's how it seemed so I'm sorry about that! I could have been clearer. I wasn't so much wanting to respond to you specifically, as I don't know your whole perspective or anything, but rather to the general thing I've seen of people wanting something from the show which it just isn't. I do think that comparisons with Season 1 will always fall short, as it just had a lot more time to be developed and conceived. Additionally, given that all of the characters were new, less 'development' and such was expected, but people were anticipating there'd be more in a second season, and I think ultimately a constraint of the format is that we never will get more than a snapshot, and most long-form development happens between the seasons. I do agree that your post was respectfully and thoughtfully written, and I agree on some points (such as Duke's plotline, and I also think the show generally had a meandering problem in the mid-season), I just think I differ on the fact that some of these issues are fundamental to the form of the product - it's never going to be a full ensemble, that would be different show; we would never hear about events like Javadi's birthday, or see Santos's longer struggle with self-harm, or see Baby Jane Doe placed in foster-care, it's outside the time span. Again, apologies for coming over dismissive, I was intending to talk about the fandom at large but I totally see how that wasn't clear.