Subject: It's more like...
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Posted on: 2010-05-27 17:48:00 UTC
Monster-of-the-month vs. apocalypse-of-the-month. See, if you check out Year:2008, you will note that we had the Macrovirus Epidemic and the death of Makes-Things in March, followed shortly by the Sue Invasion in April, followed by the Big Brother/Key to Canon thing in June, followed by the Silver Gate thing in November. Somewhere in all that, we decided enough was enough.
Like Elcalion said, occasional, minor, agent-specific things where you have to call for backup is okay, because getting cameos is fun; it's just when everything becomes OMG TEH MULTIVERSE IS IN DANGER AND I MUST BE MORE AWESUM TAN EVAR TO SAVE US! that we have issues. Because if you give a writer a crisis, s/he wants to write a bigger crisis. If you give an agent more power, the agent will tend to get even more power. Etc., etc. It's a slippery slope toward becoming what we hate, and it's not what we're about.
See also Catastrophe Theory and Cycle Theory. We want these NOT to be true.
~Neshomeh