My read on it isn't that they are consciously avoiding risk, but that they are suffering from Third Artist Syndrome. The characters are (supposedly) several different varieties of brilliant, but they all speak (and apparently think) like TV-Witty, not like *actual* brilliant people.
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Date: 2013-11-09 10:30 pm (UTC)