Greg responds...

Well, I kinda feel like you contradicted yourself. On the one
hand, you think the "previously" recaps alienated viewers. But those
recaps were designed to help out new or occasional viewers, and I think
the only viewers that might have been alienated by them were regular
viewers who didn't need them and found them annoying.

Obviously, the main reason the show was cancelled was because
the ratings were disappointing to Disney. Not bad. Just not great
enough to justify making more when they already had a complete package.
It's certainly possible that one of the reason for the non-stellar
ratings is that the show was too complex. But I don't make apologies
for that. I tried to make it accessible, but I did the show I wanted to
do. Our regular viewers (the people who most objected to the recaps)
didn't mind the complexity. But new and occasional viewers (who might
have appreciated the recaps) might very well have been put off by that
complexity. Or are you arguing that the recaps put off new and
occasional viewers? Perhaps, by making them feel like they needed to
know stuff that maybe they didn't? Hmmmm.

It's also interesting that you praise the World Tour. I liked
it. A lot. But the consensus has generally been that people didn't
like it, or that at any rate, it went on too long. And that new and
occasional viewers would be put off by it, because they wouldn't
understand what was going on.
(GDW / 4-24-98)