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« on: June 02, 2006, 09:47:12 AM »
Buzz... as they increasingly just ditch reality for another reality, it does become more difficult to care. Every time they had difficulty coming up with ideas toward they end, they just wiped the slate clean, and started over. When you're presented with too many alternate realities, your ability to suspend disbelief gets interefered with. That's my memory of the late days of DS, from childhood. I couldn't keep track of whatever reality it was supposed to be at any given moment, and no one seemed "real"... only potential alternative people, not real people.
That means they viewed the history of the RT characters as something holding them back. Shaking everything up by creating a new reality is something that might have appealed to tired producers and writers "on paper", but I don't think it helped. Then you have to still exhibit imagination and come up with fresh stories. I think the history is something that should and could have been exploited. It didn't hold them back. They would have had to violate the "stability" of characters' RT lives, maybe kill someone off occasionally, but that's not the worst thing in the world.