YMMV / Niko and the Sword of Light

• Angst? What Angst?: The second season ends off with Niko banishing the light from within himself so that the darkness will disappear along with it, resulting in a Death of Personality once he's recovered. This development is only brought up within minutes of the ending credits, and it's written off almost as quickly by the characters. While the epilogue implies that some time has passed, we don't get a good sense of how Niko has adjusted, the other characters, Lyra especially, aren't shown to be upset about it, and it's casually brushed aside as a chance for him to act more like a normal kid for a change, ignoring that it's seemingly left the lad without an inkling of who he is.
• Adaptation Displacement: It's based on a comic?!
• Narm: The face Lyra makes at the end of "The Thorn of Contention", after Niko has been knocked unconscious and the Dark Champion is gearing up to attack. It was clearly meant to be dramatic, especially due to the use of slo-mo, but how small her pupils are in comparison to her otherwise-huge-looking eyes just comes off looking a little silly.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The second season promised viewers an exploration of Niko’s backstory and origins, but these are only ever touched upon during the last few minutes of the final episode, where it’s revealed that the primal forces of light and darkness were each given a consciousness by the actions of Nar Est, Lyra’s advisors, and the creators of the Amulet of Power — in order for one to be permanently banished, the other must go, too. It’s definitely an interesting concept if given the time to flourish, but it’s presented at a point where there’s too little time for the characters or the audience to let it sink in.
  • To learn the above-described information, Niko is inadvertently sent to the "In-Between", a purgatorial realm where fallen avatars of the light and the darkness seem to end up. This could have made for a great opportunity for him to interact with some of the past Champions, to see how their personalities have influenced his, and to flesh out and endear them to the audience, but bizarrely, Aura is the only one who shows up. Niko doesn't think to inquire as to the presence of any of his other past lives, and he remains in the In-Between for only long enough to have the necessary exposition imparted to him before Aura sends him back to the mortal world.

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