User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Wiki in Anime: Fall 2016 Edition/@comment-26389992-20161226175528/@comment-4829046-20161228171911

They just bailed on the conclusion and threw in a Christmas special since it was fitting. Again, why I am hoping for an additional episode soon. Developing a plot point for an entire season and then just dropping it with a meh end-of-year shenanigan bit is plain evil. Evil, I tell you. DX It would have worked as a great tide over till a season 3 as well because that particular scene was meant to go along similar effect as the introduction scene of the series. It marked a change in the status quo of the story up to that point. Ah well... It was trying to be different from the manga to some extent so I guess it is fine....