Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20170511234425/@comment-31564770-20170512232226

So if anyone's keeping track, we're up to 6 main cast members gone at this point. Just announced that Emilie, Ginny, Josh, and Jared are out too, along with Jennifer and Rebecca. When I heard "cast shakeup" I didn't think they ment "cast nuking!" I thought we'd be done after Rebecca! Also, does anyone find it strange that Robert- the one who was deemed most likely to leave from what I've seen- and Colin- who's character's wife is leaving- are the ones remaining, along with Lana? When I heard some cast members would likely be leaving, I thought to myself, "well if Regina's still gonna be around, I'll stay." But man, this is testing my faith! If anyone's counting, right now there are 9 main cast members: Lana, Rebecca, Ginny, Josh, Jennifer, Colin, Jared, Robert, Emilie. Season 7 will retain 3 of them, plus whoever Andrew J West is playing. Yes folks, that's exactly 1/3 of the main cast returning. Which, on one hand, does mean it's gonna be the most serious reboot possible short of wiping the cast and starting a new show altogether- meaning they have more freedom to write a new story while also keeping the character's history alive so it should alleviate some of that whole "we've written everything good already and have run out of things to do that make sense so let's just wing it" thing that was going on. On the other hand, we as the audience- or at least me, but I suspect others feel the same way- have exactly 0 clue where this is going. I have NO IDEA how they're gonna pull this off. So I guess my overall judgement on s7 at this point is if they can meet the prerequisites of ending s6 and the stories of everyone leaving well and then coming up with a good story for s7, it has great potential because it does free up a ton of the creative cage that is inevitably built around all stories when they play out for a long time, that is to say, the restraint of having everything make sense in the very very long history they've built up.