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The editors point to a significant signaling problem across modern media: where once risk-taking and bold storytelling flourished, a more fragile approach is now standard. The hosts lament that the need for every character to serve as a platform for ideological messaging leads to a loss of genuine tale-telling, thereby threatening to alienate dedicated fans of the narrative.
This viewpoint suggests a paradox in the entertainment industry's pursuit of diversity; by transforming character arcs to serve ideological purposes, they may inadvertently compromise the very narratives that made those characters iconic in the first place.