My fear is not that he is being controlled from above from writing the good stories he can but that he has some kind of disdain for the genre and ATWT's historic characters in particular and would be happier writing for something more Stephen Kingish or Twin Peaksy.

But this is not the Kindom of God that Jesus proclaimed. Let us consider the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price. The Kindom involves both search and surprise.

The control-freak instinct runs too deep. . . . This runs the risk of becoming a tragic flaw.

Of course it is clear that with things as they are to-day, every precaution would have to be taken in bringing about the 'Atlantification' of Germany.