Yeah. I’m not sure that giving the plot room to mature would make it work any better. You’d get more of a chance to see where it creaked.

The Leaf and the ring, the whole paying for things with things of emotional value makes me wince. How do you calculate the emotional value of a memento? In order to establish that this was the currency you’d need to show it in action. People haggling over whether the BBQ tongs they used at a couple of family birthdays were worth a space pedalo. What is the second hand value of a memento? Yikes.