User blog comment:Nmrls/What are you looking forward too?/@comment-5197056-20130112203219/@comment-432124-20130118050812

"I will say this though, I remember reading something he said about the timing of the second season, that it would take place right where the first one left off."

The thing is that the 2nd season technically did start where season 1 left off, so he was just telling the truth in a way that we misinterpreted. But the two points that I cited from him are difficult, if not impossible, to misinterpret. As for the major character deaths, I don't expect those characters to be dead for long. But there's one thing that we can't deny: the scene at the end of "Bloodlines", with the dystopian future seeming to not change, has to be addressed sometime later in the show and that scene makes it look like the plot is still heading in that direction.