Well, I think we addressed some of this in other posts, but to sum up, here's the way it works, per this conversation:
A. If you get a second term, then you get a scandal (I am tired enough of this dynamic that I think I am essentially done with giving second terms to anyone).
B. Scandals, per tradition and excepting…

I had an oubliette in one of my houses, it was delightful as far as I can remember.

Or profoundly less psychotic than we all thought they were!

All right, while I'm not arguing that there aren't differences between various eras, I do think it's important to deconstruct some of these sharp characterizations we tend to have.

Yeah, but you almost never get to see the actual rogue human interaction, which is sad. Cause there's at least as many ways to spin Conneticut Yankee as there are to yell at God - who may be a satellite.

I'd just like to point out that we are still deeply deeply hierarchical in the US. I did not spend three hours today making certain the titles of everyone I listed in a long document were accurate because their displeasure has no impact on my life or the life of my family. Nor did the people who could fire me on a…

World building stuff still comes at you in a very unconventional way, but those problems of characterization and plotting don't really come up again.

I don't recommend starting with the first book.

Never read the Silver Spike, and I might be missing the last book, but I thought the non-croaker narrators were one of the highlights of the whole series.

Yeah, if nothing else it's an interesting read in how production considerations in literature and film create very different uncertainties.

Fair enough. As a conversation this does seem to be mutually wrong footed. You seem to have misread my initial arguments, and I was probably overly sensitive towards:
"If you do, then make your case! treat this is a positive, not a negative."
Which, in my neck of the woods, reads very close to audience condescension.…

Picked by God to be the only way Archer will ever steer me wrong (aside from in general life lessons)?

On the municipal level a lot of places are pretty close to this already. The Renaissance city-state model has been pretty persistent even if it's mostly under the surface at this point.

I spent like five minutes gleefully constructing how a minor crewmember of the starship enterprise would create a Feudal order and then I realized that wasn't the part of the OP you were referring to.

The Tenessean (Tennessee-ite?) who lived with me when I saw it adored this episode.

It seemed to grow cooler after the mid-90s like all else save the planet.

Argh, the Cartesian Plane! Against it's Non-Sexuality, I am powerless, and, thus, Slain!

It would be fun to see someone do a stealth Chronicles of Amber using Magic. All plane shifting, summoning, and Olympian family drama.

And yet it has a shockingly high jock following. It may not mainstream, but it might redefine the stream it inhabits.

It's not necessarily the most powerful, it's just the one that's simply impossible to explain.