But I had 8 kids 5-15 watch all of Ep1 _AND_ choose to watch Ep2 afterwards last night. They actually sat and watched, too, instead of having it on in the background... AND they were bummed they couldn't watch the super secret pilot episode (which has MAJOR audio issues - I couldn't bring myself to inflict it on them).
So I think something is there.
I agree, there are some great opportunities to track things somewhat more quantitatively. It takes ~15 minutes and $10 bucks to generate a script depending on how fast OpenAI is feeling. So in a real scale v2 it would be very reasonable to explore this.
Man, I sure hope I get to build this further!