It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
I'm not very good at writing fantasy or even reading it.
It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work.
One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.