Great final episode. A very good end of this arc, all things considered. The resurrection medicine was expected, but loved it nonetheless.
This season was great, but hard to follow sometimes due to how much there was to keep up with. It's been building since season 1 episode 1 after all. Loved it though. Would probably be great on a binge rewatch.
I'm very curious how this continues. The status quo is very different now. Both Xiaolan (poor girl, she deserved to see them off properly!) and Shisui (or Tamamo I suppose) are out of sight, Jinshi is no longer just a pretty eunuch, Gyokuyou is empress (deserved!) and Maomao is back in the pleasure district. I'm sure Jinshi gets her back in the royal affairs somehow, but we'll see. At the very least, he'll get cockblocked again next season and I'm all for it.
Yeah as much as I love the show, the political intrigue has mostly just confused/bored me. I just want more bits with Mao Mao being Mao Mao. I don't know the source material, but the S3 teaser makes me think we're going to get away from all of that since it says they're going to a distant land. Seems like a reset.
Hmm, it didn't bore me at all. Just hard to keep up with. It's kind of the main theme of the anime. Season 1 was full of it as well, but not connected (or at least, it didn't seem like it. Now we know it was).
But yeah, it seems like the new arc will be quite different, but it's probably not just Maomao being Maomao