I really loved the remount, the addition of sets and obviously a higher budget really added to it but I think what contributed the most was how much the Hatchetfield setting and characters got fleshed out since the og. The original characters are (and none of this is a bad thing) fairly shallow characters, created for a comedy musical - with the exception of Bill tbf. But the remount means that the audience and the cast know their characters so much more.
We know Pete now, so Ted's fight with Bill is played a lot less comically. There's real pain and loss there.
Honey Queen makes Zoe very ruthless and dark, and she's far more aggressive in the remount.
We know how devoted McNamara is. We know even more of Bill's anguish. We even have more context to Pokey and I want to do a meta on him at some point. We've met Jane's family and seen Emma's yearning for connection with them.
We've seen in other timelines that Paul is definately content, but is he ever actually happy? With the changes to Let It Out, its easier to wonder if Paul actually did choose the hivemind.
Most of the additions are to make the tone more serious because these characters aren't one dimensional anymore. They have families, they have pasts, they have communities and we know them. They're so much more human to the audience now that they couldn't have presented the same show - the depth from the characters we've learnt about needs to be present and it is
