Agreed.It is interesting, because there is a lot of parallels to draw between the appeal of stories and painting theory. The keyword is. In painting theory, a thing you learn quickly is that if you for instance want an image to look bright because there is an illuminating object within it, the initial thought would be to make the whole image very white however that is not a good way to do it. what you should do instead is make everything except the object in the image. This way the object will appear bright in relation to its surroundings.And it is the same way about the story of Bionicle. In the MNOG everything was about the villages, and this is my interpretation: Everything is peaceful. We get the feeling of what a paradise island is, but then suddenly action jumps up and startlingly busts our paradise-illusion thought-bouble, and we truly go "oh shit!", and THEN that powerful hero you've heard of shows up and saves it, only to disappear quickly after now that peace is back. You are left in awe and feel lucky to have witnessed a Toa in action. like seeing a shooting star.That, I believe, is how you create respect for a hero.Not by shoving their greatness up in our faces, but by teasing us with glimpses of it.