in two words: holy shit.

THAT was one hell of a first episode.

the first season was great as it is, but this just went above and beyond even that

we've got, let's see

a bomb threat at the very beginning and the race to disarm it so tokyo doesn't get destroyed

which is quite reminiscent of season 1's finale, except this time it's in the PREMIERE

and fujimaru trying to lay low and live a normal life on the OUTSIDE but secretly he's monitoring both third-i and the terrorists

and he can't really stay out of it even if he tries

the otoya-maya thing was really interesting, I'm curious to see if they'll do anything more with that dynamic because it works SO well

and then there's J

J is still a crazy little fucker

and I love him so much for it

narimiya hiroki outdid himself in this episode

J was so completely crazy in the beautiful way where he just has so much fun screwing with people

he seemed to find it FUN that he was going to get blown up, that is so perfectly him

and there was this SCENE where he un-handcuffs himself

and goes to the rest of the passengers and is like

EVERYONE THIS PLANE WILL NEVER LAND, IT'S BEEN HIJACKED BY TERRORISTS, THEY'VE GOT A BOMB ;O;

and then points and kirishima and the third-i people and goes THEY'RE THE TERRORISTS ;O;

and then the other cop on the plane who's unrelated to third-i attacks them

and J: /popcorn.gif

and then kirishima gets it back under control and J is like /SADFACE

and then spends the rest of the episode laughing at the fact that the entire plane and possibly all of tokyo is going to blow up because of him.

but overall it is a brilliant season premiere and I am very interested in seeing where they go from here

they've got all the major players back and the cast is even better than they were in first season

and they all seem really comfortable with each other because EVERY combination of actors on screen has great chemistry

and when I'm not working on the buttloads of homework I've got I am going to be marathoning the rest of this season whenever possible

overall: freaking awesome. THAT IS ALL.