Agree with everything you mentioned. It may not have been plagiarized but I'm currently not sure with myself if it deserved as much praise it got.

Hell, this is coming from me who have been hard defending the show being plagiarized work. But yeah, I'm kind of hopping that my second viewing later is more rewarding overall.

I can understand you not liking 1899. I personally thought it was more of "so-so". I think need to rewatch it later on to form a more concrete opinion.

However, I disagree with the whole Black Silence plagiarism accusation. Because of her accusation, many people read her comic only to realize how they don't actually share any similarity other than the triangle eyes & pyramid visual.

So much of what she said was extremely far fetched and it seems that she has not actually watched the show but only saw a couple of scenes before going with the whole plagiarism accusation.

There's a thread going on comparing how 1899 and Black Silence share many similarity but many of them are not only very reaching but not even true. Some of the accusation is hilarious like "similar uniforms" when they look nothing alike or how both series shows space craft in space being used as an evidence as if other space related medias don't show that.

The author herself can't even say anything concrete other than vague comparisons like "there's mysterious event and death" in both series while unable to give any real comparison. Using her argument, you could compare her comic to Dead Space and several big named movies out there and call it a plagiarism.

Regardless of that though, I'll have to rewatch it to see if I'll be invested enough for season 2 or not care if it doesn't get another season. I think overall it could have been a bit better but not sure what could/should have been changed.