Well, watching this season hard on the heels of the first season is a mistake. You should allow yourself a couple days between them simply to absorb the first season fully. That said, however, this season is as good in some ways as the first one. Granted the land is missing and you have only one scene that isn't a spaceship or in space, but they manage to make do with what they do have. The story is what I like to focus on, and there this season is a worthy successor. It took what could have been an awkward ending tothe first season and continued it along logically and believably. I was not upset by the reuse of a plot device, and there was less of a video game feel to it, and more of a real emergent situation that needed to be dealt with now.

You get some more backstory in this, but in my opinion it focuses too much on one character, leaving the other two to languish in near obscurity. They do have their moments however. Additional characters are introduced, and the only complaint I have with that is that the three invading nations who are coming appear to only have two or three people on the entire huge capital ships until nearly three quarters of the way through the series, then you find out there are actually other people there. True, those others are cutouts and one dimensional, sometimes nearly literally, but they do exist.

The stories weave together in a tight whole though and I was very interested to watch it. The plot twist at the end is nearly anticlimactic as they have been hinting at this, and giving it away in the main opening sequence, since the series started. However, that said, the REAL plot twist really does surprise.

If you enjoyed the first season, you will enjoy this one more. I think it's a good sequel, and I would have liked it to continue on, with the heroines resting on their laurels in the place they helped create.