While a lot about this show is fantastic, its sprawling scope begins to undermine the themes at the heart of the show.

The writing is great but a several shades from perfect, narrative arcs are meaningful and move quickly, and the characters are reasonable and pragmatic. The animation is utterly mediocre, but isn't bad enough to be called distracting.

There are a lot of elements to like and the final package is substantial, but for a show obsessed with exploring big philosophical questions, it spends increasingly little time exploring the emotional consequences of it's answers. I don't know whether the second season was condensed due to the shows impending cancellation - it certainly feels like they could have had several more episodes if they'd slowed things down - but while it serves as a narrative conclusion to the story, I dont think it works as an emotional conclusion to it.

That makes the overall experience feel like spending hours to solve a math problem and come up with the wrong answer. The work is good and logical and consistent, but when you do the final calculations the output just isn't right.

Until uploads become closer to reality, I'd only recommend this to dedicated fans of science fiction. For everyone else, there are more fun problems and better answers elsewhere.