Book 7 jumping thing

Consider this. The Dream maintained the contract to continue The Vengeance of The Daughter through the ninth floor. Despite signet being dead. So it's now a show about her surviving side characters. They put zero effort into crafting a plot since they only did it to make an ogre suicide bomb himself.

But as far as we know, the show is still running after the bomb attempt fails. They now have zero control over the plot because none of the remaining characters are elites. But they may still have exclusive rights to air scenes where their characters are with Donut and Carl. Which might mean their show has shockingly high ratings despite an utter lack of meaningful story.

Matt might be doing a bit of self-ribbing about his books jumping the shark with Jamal, but The Vengeance of the Daughter has *reeeeeeeeally* jumped the shark this season.