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The Main Idea

One of the mistakes I believe I've made in designing this web series was to attempt to convert my original episodic series into a web series. Really? We'd be doing this forever! The first thing I did was to remove the poll from the web site. Not many people participated in it and, those who did, voted for us to put on the entire series. As I said before, that amounts to 110 episodes! So, I had to make some hard, yet realistic decisions. I figured, why not take the most outstanding displacements, break these down into manageable plots, and produce these videos? I know this means dismissing the first main plot. Even though it featured an evil mutant, it did not have anything to do with the mission of the team, which is: search and rescue beyond the Bermuda Triangle. This decision combines the best of both worlds: displacements and surrounding plots. It also cuts through early project development which would have slowed the progress of the series. One other fascinating eleme