User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Well This Is Somewhat Hopeful/@comment-5699975-20121223035004/@comment-3317214-20121225124817

Oh, cool. Didn't notice that. Yeah, well, the plan was to recapture all the escaped villains from the Breakout, so they would have faced him eventually... And if there was a third season, there's no doubt Mandarin would show up because of the movies.

Also, I guess part of my reason for theorising the third season plans brought into the second season, is because, if there was a third season, my problems with the second half of the second season wouldn't exist. There'd be more time to cover the storylines they wanted to cover and more. More time for character development. More time to build up tension over events. More time to tell good stories. And we'd have a whole other 26 episodes to enjoy. It's a shame it doesn't work like that...