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I still say LB4 would have been 4x better if you gave us a different take on their relationship

Give us "A world where Arjuna had not shot Karna when he was fixing his chariot on that day", which resulted in the wrong side of the war winning. In LB4 you have to fight Karna Alter and Durodhana, who reveled in their victory taking over India and vastly changing history in a bad way somehow. The story shows us Karna if he had won the war, show him as more of an asshole somehow, and have our servant be Arjuna, seeing the reality of the world where he won, finally realizing that even if he had made another choice on that day, it wouldn't have necessarily have been correct. Showing him that even if his actions on that day were morally wrong, it lead ultimately to a better outcome, which gives him some atonement realizing that even if it was a mistake, it wasn't entirely a mistake. Arjuna redeems himself defeating evil Karna for real this time which he could never do on that day, without cheating. The story gives Arjuna closure with his own actions on that day, and we get to roll "Karna Alter" the next week, which is just a slightly more blood thirsty Karna after beating the Pandeva's during the war. I think they could have done a lot with a world where the Pandeva's lost the war.

Instead what they gave us was "The same shit, except slightly bigger, because we don't ever want to change relationship dynamics, Karna must always be correct, and Arjuna must always be seething and incorrect".