The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.