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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1590619" data-attributes="member: 177">Right, but that one looks like a cliche to start, now doesn't it?  Since most series don't survive into their second season, you would not generally be able to tell that such a series differed from the norm before it got cancelled.  For all you know, Dogbrain, Firefly was going to break the cliche any number of ways in it's second season, if it had had one.Plus, once this little ruse is discovered, the series reduces to one of the previous cliches.  So it's a temporary fix, at best.Twists that the audience will not notice quickly don't really add to the survivability of a series.  It takes a lot of effort to write and produce one of these things.  To do extra work that the audience may never see often isn't worth the effort, and tends to lock hte writers into paths that cannot be easily flexed to meet audience preferences.  The only genre series I can think of off the top of my head that had a solid multi-year plan from the stat was B5.</blockquote>