Yeah, when I read that article, I got a new perspective on the whole matter, I saw it as Lorne wanting to protect Abe and Munch from hving their stories sacrificed to a deadline. Lorne needed a new hero to step in and carry the series back to it's full potential so that Abe and Munch would have something better to come back to, and Stranger is that hero. That to me is why Stranger is such a different type of hero than the others, he's like Oddworld's savior in a time of crisis.
