A degree of academic mania surrounding video games at present, evident in the proliferation of dedicated journals and conference tracks devoted to the subject, is (i) ________. After all, comparable outbursts have accompanied other media during their formative decades, as seen in the heated disputes surrounding early cinema in the 1920s. Yet such scholarly (ii) _______ seldom precedes a medium's finest achievements. Rather, it typically signals that a formal (iii) _______, once accomplished and acknowledged, has already passed, and that a period of labored imitation and shrinking originality has begun.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. bewildering	D. ferment	G. innovation
B. predictable	E. detachment	H. custom
C. misguided	F. stagnation	I. hazard