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**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:08 pm

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tijde · Unfettered Joined: 14 Jul 2011 Posts: 331

I agree; the scares have been quite different in S2. In S1, the individual entries were more frightening, but the audience sat a bit further back from the action. We were mainly watching Jay-the-vague-narrator watch past events that had happened to another person we didn't know. In S2, Jay's gotten personally involved to a much greater extent, and we've come to know both him and Alex better. So while the S2 entries have fewer individual scares, we're closer now. The stakes have been raised. Even watching events of the lost seven months is a more intimate experience, since they happened to Jay-the-real-person and have a direct correlation to what he's experiencing in the present. For me, the overall story is scarier now. Plus, individual events that may not have been scary in S1 cause a different kind of fear in S2. Alex losing his temper with Jay in #47 is significantly more frightening than Alex losing his temper with Seth in #9. They're both saying the same thing--Alex has changed--but #47 implies a lot more as well. That's a direct result of developing the characters and plot in S2. � � � �