I've posted my thoughts on Animesuki. In short, I can see exactly what choices they made and why they made them.
- Increase in time alottted to reintroducing characters and slapstick comedy and fanservice.
- Decrease in time devoted to exposition in order to keep the pace going.
- It was about as good as I could have hoped. But in the future I hope they can keep the seriousness of some scenes in tact.