That's why I think the best solution as an author is always to make immediately clear what is your vision, and your long term plans, with your story and direction. If you don't, unfortunately, some people will feel compelled to pester the author to fulfill their fetish-du-jour - because that's what matter, to hell with authorial intent, I guess. In our case TD was very clear from the start on this subject, and this kept the background noise at least manageable - not ideal ("ok, but what if..."), but better than the alternative in any case.