I will add, I'm very optimistic and excited for C4 and the broad strokes we know about it so far, but even if C4 in the end turns out to be similarly mid and unimpressive, I very much still intend to defend this as a production decision and creative management direction with my life, even if I end up lukewarm and critical of the story and work itself on its own creative and narrative merits. These are very much separate things, and I am already supportive of this from the perspective of managing the body of work and its creatives and will always continue to be.
It's really valuable to me that, when they felt that Matt needed a breather from GMing, they structured their next long-form campaign to allow for that. Brennan also said that he is taking the reins for a bit so that others "can tend to all of these astounding endeavors that they have going on", and building that kind of space for members of the production is important. As someone invested in their overall body of work and in how it develops, this is valuable and encouraging to me.
On top of that, that they are trying something even slightly new β even if it's potentially alienating β after ten years of the same exact mixture is promising. They need to start branching out, especially in cast, to sustain their body of work over time, but their interest in branching out beyond Exandria for more extended periods of time is also promising from a creative standpoint. This kind of foray is critical to the continued development and sustainability of this production as a whole, and that they're working on it at this juncture, where it is becoming increasingly necessary as they continue to rapidly grow and expand and as the production hits ten years, is heartening.
Even if in time I find that C4 is messy, narratively weak, muddled, underbaked, whatever I might feel a year from now, from a production standpoint and a creative experiment view, I'm fully in support and will remain to be.
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