[Quiet Man Cometh]

I never meant that you made characters that became a mess, I'm saying that the route you took to write the story itself became a mess. "I quite literally *had* to create them from scratch, as we had never had an event on that planet before." And I'm asking why it had to be that way and why you could come up with an idea or element that made it so it didn't require you to make 60 different billion characters

I'd like to know what you mean by this as I was working on it, too. What "way" are you talking about? We had to create new characters and a storyline because we were working from an entirely new setting. I wouldn't be believable in my opinion, to have the current "cast" show up on an uninhabited place to continue what they were doing on their own planets.

But I'm saying that getting the complete freedom to start anew is somewhat of a power trip, especially when there are so many ways to fix the current storyline to begin with.

Probably is power trippy if just one person said it, but I agree with a hard-reboot completely. Fixing something with so many internal errors is only going to come off as bandages really, and would involve a lot more work then you seem to think.

Retconning irritates people. That is something I have seen a fair bit of around the internet and it follows with my own opinion of it. I haven't seen X-Men Days of Future Past but I've gotten the impression that people are more than a little annoyed with the approach it took to it's backstory, and I expect people would feel the same way about such "fixes" with the Tris story as well. I also think that it looks better for the site if we make a new story than to try and drag out something we know is a problem, just for the sake of some manner of ending.

I still vote clean slate.