CTSNB topic drift

[Proginoskes]

And now I have a bizarre little meta-idea of a Sentai show where the Villain is just the black ops arm of the Friendly Local News Station equivalent, and the whole thing is secretly being run as a bizarre form of reality TV show. If you really want to work the deconstruction, the Heroes find out at some point, and the station, in too deep to do anything else, tries to get them to buy into it.

This reminds me strongly of Improbable Island. The War on the Improbability Drive is a real thing, but it's also a reality TV show. "Contestant" is both a title given to new players, and a catch-all term for "player character".