Replaying That Worn Out Record Over and Over and Over Again: Well, We've [All] Been There, and Now We're Back Again - already

*The script has been oh so predictable, really quite corny.

*The villain of the piece: one overtly and overly successful and widely popular 'leader of men', alongside his latest pet project.

*The crime: being - way - too successful and popular for his own good, and failing to bear fools gladly.

*The heroes & heroines: a ragtag assortment of envious and spiteful, ne'er-do-well also-rans, seeking for publicity and fame off the back of their arch foe, and ever eager to knock yet another presumptuous tall poppy off his high perch before it all starts to go to his head.

*The chief protagonists: one dark-complexioned, cagey conspirator from foreign fields, with his three local accomplices: one sharp and smooth-tongued and seemingly sage, the other two good-hearted though naive, one outrageously fortunate, the other hailing from close to home.

*The plot: A variety of concocted, trumped-up charges, posited fast and furiously by a cabal of apparently unassociated, unrelated individuals and groups, in order to knock said villain from his lofty and heady heights, to 'bring him down to earth' and attempt to show him just one more mere mortal among a world of such beings. Attempting, in the process, to destroy his reputation and credibility, alongside those of his many and similarly esteemed colleagues, and thus bring their major lifework into disrepute and dishonour.

**Success of the plot? Eventually a total flop - a failure on a grand scale - as the plot unravels thick and fast even as the various protagonists scramble furiously every which way seeking to turn any remaining loose ends to their advantage, while also stitching up new and ever more intriguing conspiratorial subplots and subtexts into the overall narrative of their endgame grand design.

**Ultimate moral of the story? As either Aesop or the Good Lord might have put it, the one who rolls a stone will have it roll back upon her own person, those who dig a pit will eventually fall into it themselves.

**Rating? "PG"(Parental Guidance Recommended) In order to explain the inherent subtleties and innate nuances of the plot to uninitiated observers, onlookers and newcomers, in case they too are, all too easily and cleverly, taken in by each and every unexpected twist and turn the story takes as it progresses.