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How this wasn't an already implemented rule from the start I have no idea, but it does further confirm what I think most of us already knew. Just based on what I've seen over the years, most Academy members don't like watching films.

IKR? I haven't watched the Oscars since... after Whoopi moderated them? I have been very disillusioned with the whole thing in the decades since.

What was supposed to have been just a planned book trilogy became an extended book series that he regrettably wrote himself into a corner with.

I can totally understand that writer's dilemma of having written oneself into a corner. The most annoying writing process follows and the most unsatisfying works result from it.

I would like to think I'd manage if millions of people were waiting for it, but I can't be sure. At the same time, I think that doing something that brings him joy (no matter what millions of people want) is the better thing for him to do. Creative endeavors are always fickle and there's no guarantee the end result will be good, anyway.