[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm satisfied that, at the core, we were left with an essentially episodic world, populated by some interesting characters with some pretty complex emotions and motivations.

I'm unsatisfied that they set up a framework that promised to deliver something more overreaching than that. Something that offered a view on religion and a view on science that could have been interesting. Instead it felt like they gave up and resorted to hand waving, leaving a muddled, incomplete thought behind.

They knew they had solid characters and thought they could use that as a foundation for something grander. They never quite collected their thoughts enough to get there. Fortunately, they were still left with that solid foundation.