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Season 2 has a similar argument with Season 1 with the difference thats1 showed us what happened in the future. So this finale cant be a series finale and we are waiting a third Season for this show. If you are still having the sci-fi question-marks in your mind, such us where the energy comes from or how its possible to have tires with 2000 years shelf time , then you are totally misunderstood the point of this series and you are out of the show. The point of this show has a sociological element and the sci-fi is running just in the background without giving scientific answers (Do we need them actually?). When the S2 had started I was thinking to quit the show because the first episode offers nothing more than a repetition of the S1, and indeed S2 shares a lot of similarities with S2, however there is huge difference: S2 we see how the devolved Human specie "abbie" has the trend to evolve to something greater and there is an argument about if abbies are the enemy or the replacement of mankind. We have a family homicide and the victim is the leader again with the message clearly refers to dictators. A paradise city where all citizens contribute equally, and there is no equality in surviving selection because they have the wrong leader. A girl from Ohio seems to have more ethics than the "GOD" scientist pilzer and the message that "every leader considers himself as the GOD and put his ego above the greater good is given. Eventually, Dr Yedlin defines that there is no greater in word "good". And this is the ESSENCE of the show! If you leave paradise knowing the distinction between the good and the bad, you can't make the paradise if you know the distinction between greater good and just good. We have again a sacrifice as the one of Ethan Burke at S1. At the start it can be assumed that Dr. Yedlin defines to not save Jaysons life in order to be able to rise in the leadership, but eventually his motivation to sacrifice himself days declares the opposite. A lot of philosophical question-marks. The show is definitely sociological/abbie-anthropological and the greater moment of the Season is the time that Margaret point Dr. Yeldin as the true leader. We have a communication between a Human and an Abbie. Should we have leaders or every leader has a sleeping weakness that can enable his ego? Character development is great on this show and it would be very interesting how Dr. Yeldin will develop as a leader or to accept others to lead. A socialism and a dictatorship in the same town? It couldn't work eventually. We need to see new political system in this town, or if the right choice of the leader can enable a society to become ideal and build the foundation of mankind's survival. In ESSENCE this can answer also if the abbies are just a parenthesis or the real next step of mankind's evolution chain. We need to see this show to be continued...