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ANNCast - Boils and Ghouls

The only horror movies I've seen recently (which wasn't honestly that recent) were 1408 (Fantastic, effective buildup! But not a great payoff. Once the real bad **** starts happening to him in the room, it just goes downhill.), and The Mist, which was AMAZING. Glad to hear the love for it on the show. Thomas Jane (I just want my kids back!) is great in it, and the end is utterly amazing.

It is rather silly, when we consider some of the more blatantly cheesy aspects of its resolution, but for me the second season has the benefit of actually tying together a number of events that would otherwise be nothing more than a series of creepy paranoid murders. It gives them a greater scope and a sense of thematic purpose, in a way, that they would otherwise lack. At the expense of eventually removing all of the mystery, yes, but not for a gratuitous reason. You could argue including elements of horror was ultimately nothing more than the means to an end.

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It is rather silly, when we consider some of the more blatantly cheesy aspects of its resolution, but for me the second season has the benefit of actually tying together a number of events that would otherwise be nothing more than a series of creepy paranoid murders. It gives them a greater scope and a sense of thematic purpose, in a way, that they would otherwise lack. At the expense of eventually removing all of the mystery, yes, but not for a gratuitous reason. You could argue including elements of horror was ultimately nothing more than the means to an end.

I still would have preferred a resolution without said cheesy- and sillyness.
A resolution not necessarily has to solve the mystery. Season 2 could have presented a similar struggle to escape from that cycle, but without presenting a clear villain or scheme. spoiler[The town itself would have made a far better antagonist, with its "motivation" and means left unexplained, in my opinion.]

Now I think that would have been missing the point of the series, which I would say has just as much of a mystery element as it does a horror element. I mean, my god, by the end of the 4th question arc (besides, the fact there are "question" arcs obviously means there needs to be "answer" arcs), I had more questions about what was going on than by the end of the first season of LOST. To just leave everything unanswered would be a big middle finger to the audience.

Besides, spoiler[if it were the whole town against them (or even just the village clans), I don't think I would have found any way for the protagonists to have won to be believable, and let's face it, after all the crap they've gone through (think you've got it tough, Shinji? At least you only went through life once), I think it's fair to say they deserve their happy ending (assuming they get one).]

Granted, once again, I have not seen Kai yet, but I could get a good vibe of where the series was going by the end of Season 1.