Despite starting this thread I finally got round to actually watching it! My first thought is that season 2 really does head straight on from 1 and with a not very good recap. I had to look up who all the characters were and exactly what had happened to them. Overall I think season 2 was good, the games were a lot of fun. It was a bit 'anime' at times, a lot of characters dying but not before they've finished their 20 mins monologue. The last two episodes I thought were a real let down although I liked the actual ending. The last episodes were about 2 and a half hours in length but in reality it was about 45 mins of plot but everything happened soooooo slowly.