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We didn't want to up-end the show and make it something it wasn't, so we came in respectfully, mindful of precedent. We all watched virtually every single episode of the series to see what topics, methods and stories had been done (or over-done) in order to avoid repetition --
-- and so we wouldn't have to go around re-inventing the wheel. The question then became, what can we bring in to freshen the feel of the show while keeping the original fans? I had her start teaching at a university in order to not just bring in characters who were a bit --
-- younger than the usual cast of M,SW, but also to show her interacting with people from a wide swath of backgrounds. We also brought in Robert Swanson, who had previously written for the show and was a huge source of information about what had been done earlier.
