User blog comment:B214/Season 3 discussion/@comment-62.24.111.247-20150414011534

Hmmmmmm ... I still have my reservations about this season. I'll wait and see how it turns out.

I can get that there are things in the LN that are skippable, sure. And sure they get in a lot [NOT ALL] of the important points in. No problem with that. But I feel like their execution of this leaves out a lot of good parts and their rewriting doesn't help the case it messes with the sequence of events thus we feel like it's rushed. I say this in comparison of the previous seasons with their corresponding LN volumes where the skipping and rewritting actually helped the story and when you pick up from vol 5 nothing seems off

For those who've watches the previous seasons the scene where gasper and koneko were captured happened differently than the LN but their execution of it was great. I personally didn't like how they introduced Tannin and Sairaorg. On that part I feel the LN holds a greater impact. We don't even get to see Issei struggle against being taken away by a dragon to be trained. That was a great comic relief, and would have been greater if it was animated. [just an example]

So as for now I feel these first two episodes ... ... ... ... going by the previous performances of S1 and S2, they feel a bit off. Not bad, but not good either. I just hope the whole season justifies the course of action taken otherwise we'll end up with a Bleach or Shippuuden where unnecessary things are intertwined interfering with the original story and potentially spoiling for season 4 [Definitely going to be one!!!!!!]

But for now I reserve final judgement till the final episode as I look forward to ZOOM ZOOM IIYAANN