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Originally Posted by MarsHottentot

Yeah, so, what happened behind the scenes with Kiva? Clearly there was a solid plan in place at the beginning - I mean, there had to be, right? You wouldn't concoct a multiple timeline show and you certainly wouldn't greenlight such a show unless there was a solid plan in place on how it was all going to work... right?
So I thought there must have been some problems in the writing room but, according to the wiki, Inoue wrote the whole series, save 17 & 188 by Shōji Yonemura.
It's like Inoue lost his show bible and just couldn't remember any of his plans.

I think it mostly boils down to Inoue being a writer who ran out of good ideas years earlier and has been coasting along on the same tired old tropes ever since.

Also, these shows aren't set in stone, no matter how much was planned out in advance. Some shows lost their showrunner, some either lost an actor or at least had less access to that actor than planned, and some just changed their mind about what they wanted to do. OOO very famously changed direction a lot from the original plan with Akira Date sticking around far longer than planned, Doctor Maki replacing Ankh as the final villain, and the whole Eiji becoming a Greed storyline that wasn't part of the original outline at all.