You can't design a cult hit like you can design a cult (Faust is no Hubbard, is what I'm saying).
Faust is good, and the "being good" didn't exactly hurt, but it's like saying Joel Hodgson knew MST3K was going to pretty much single-handedly save Comedy Central, basically be the inspiration for a lot of Internet culture and last over 10 seasons while he was hot gluing robot puppets together one night or that Gene Roddenberry knew what he was unleashing on the world when he pitched "Star Trek."
You can't design a cult hit like you can design a cult (Faust is no Hubbard, is what I'm saying).
Faust is good, and the "being good" didn't exactly hurt, but it's like saying Joel Hodgson knew MST3K was going to pretty much single-handedly save Comedy Central, basically be the inspiration for a lot of Internet culture and last over 10 seasons while he was hot gluing robot puppets together one night or that Gene Roddenberry knew what he was unleashing on the world when he pitched "Star Trek."