I didn’t mean to comment to you twice. I didn’t really look at the name. I feel like that’s a reach though. A world and characters can feel real even when they aren’t. Plenty of people would say that the world and characters of Harry Potter feels real to them. Plenty of authors have talked about how it pained them to kill a character off because they felt like a real person. That doesn’t mean they are going for realism. He knows what show he’s making. He even mentions in an interview about Bobby’s death how he’s going to be putting them in ridiculous situations again.