Trivia / Despair Island

• What Could Have Been:
  • As mentioned on the main page under Aborted Arc, the author originally intended the story to be the first of a trilogy, with the sequels covering Action using the Revenge of the Island contestants and World Tour using the Pahkitew Island contestants. Furthermore, the survivors of each story would appear as interns in the following story. However, this plan was aborted when the author decided it was far too large of a project to handle.
  • The author originally planned, and openly promised, a relatively realistic story with social commentary, among other features. The final product was substantially less realistic than the original vision, and the promised social commentary never materialized, nor did the Worldbuilding needed to explain some of the more outlandish plot contrivances.
  • The What If? one-shot also reveals that Geoff, despite losing, would still survive the final challenge, but for a completely different reason; the audience in-universe fell for the romance between him and Bridgette and Chris decided to keep him alive for the ratings.

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