When you’ve explored all of those for all the characters, then I think it’s time to say goodbye.
I think a lot of us would agree that Downton Abbey became a different show when series leads Dan Stevens and Jessica Brown Findlay left, among other characters.
You do start to understand why, in Dynasty, Fallon ended up going up in a rocket ship with aliens.
What happens in the end with any serial drama is there’s a limited number of things that happen to human beings.