Contemplating the nature of the prequel

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

And wondering if they're not just doomed to be sort of awkward.

Because there are certain things that need to happen (and are thus unsurprising), and then there are other things that can't happen (which sorta kills the suspense). And inevitably there's going to be a continuity error.
And sometimes, you wind up in this sort of limbo state where X needs to happen, but it can't happen yet, so they wind up resetting themselves.