yeah I recall seeing some statistics about how they lost of bunch of their audience with s2 and how many people thought that they were dragging it out intentionally so the show could have a longer overall run. They seem to have maybe learned from this feedback in S3 because things are moving on really fast and for someone like me that really wasn't paying full attention in s2 this is really confusing. I would rather watch the last maybe two episodes of s2 and then just very carefully watch s3 than watch all of s2 again.

I hope that makes sense :)