I think it's probably very easy, in a series like this, to lean into the misery, to the idea that no matter what you do, and how good your intentions are, everything you love or empathise with can be taken away. The prospect of reanimation doesn't really solve that, and I'm hoping, by the end of the series, that there'll be a more optimistic end than in the original. I have to admit, though, I'm struggling to see how. There's such an aura of hopelessness here - and it's done so well, but it's still so pervasive. I am desperately hoping for a better future for little Akai, but the argument for grief and love here rests on the continued existence of the former, so a happy ending seems unlikely at this point. 

And those poor pigs! I have to admit, when the Creature went into that barn and started staring at the pigs, I wondered if he was going to be as indifferent to their welfare as he generally is to humans. (I should have remembered the whales.) There was a brief moment of optimism as I realised he actually felt for them, and then it turned to shit and the look of absolute horror on his face...