Not a fan of “they could all be preceded by ‘mono’ IF they were totally different, more abbreviated words than they are.” It would be an absurd number of mental operations if solvers entertained notions like that on ever board. Same goes with the third-order operation of connecting jobs to films to an actor.

Have to agree. Also did not understand the explanation of the Stranger sequence at all.

Goodness gracious me!

The Game of Thrones sequence makes no sense.

Not sure why others are note getting the GOT sequence; I liked it

didn't like the nicholas cage answer- too reverse engineered. GOT was easy- I think people were confused by the mismatch in the explanations!
Changing the words made it very difficult to spot, again, makes sense in reverse, but consider the game play for the solver- shouldn't be too frustrating/ feel unfair. Brilliant attempt though- I appreciate you trying to be original and interesting !!!