Well, any time a show deviates from the original source as big and as soon as they did with this one, it’s going to end up being written by people that don’t really understand what made the show worth trying to make in the first place.

They essentially destroyed the character arcs at the end of season one.

So, you now have the second season being made with a totally different set of minds steering the story. Now, if they’d scrapped the original personalities, motivations, and arcs early in the first season, then done their own thing, the shift in all of that wouldn’t have been as jarring. I’m fine with deviating from source in theory, it’s about how well that’s done.

The boys did it very poorly, and it shows the most during the transition, which was around the middle of season two, which is when you mentioned. Frankly, the writers and producers didn’t know what they had. It made what was an amazing cast struggle to find their pace and personas.