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There's the age-old question of "are the producers giving the audience what they *want* or are they giving them what they think is safe and easy? How do we know that's actually what the audience wants or would be interested in?"
Alternate example: Does the audience really *want* 15 versions of Law&Order or is that just an easy path? How many shallow copies of CSI or NCIS did we really want? Do we get reality shows because they're popular or because they're cheap to produce?
Its one reason I'm really liking the increasing presence of women writers and mangaka. Even when they have to work in "old fashioned" formats, they often introduce complexity or subverted archetypes we don't see otherwise.
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