It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. ↗
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. ↗
The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard. ↗