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This makes zero sense.

You could take almost any line of dialogue and give it to any other character, and it wouldn’t be noticeable. Even though these are famous people, the dialogue is so generic and lacks any personality.

This reminds me of the show “The Big Bang Theory” in that the characters are supposed to be geniuses, and yet they’re written for the lowest common denominator and over-explain to the point that they seem of barely average intelligence.

Either the writing was rushed or the editing wasn’t thorough. There was a missing word in this chapter, an extra (redundant) word in the previous chapter. It feels like the concept was greenlit quickly and rushed to print.

Exposition is quite clunky. Far too much telling the reader rather than implying information through action. It feels like the author is trying to prove he knows something about each of these famous characters.