Self-similarity itself is not necessarily counter-intuitive (e. For example, Davy Crockett and Johnny Appleseed were real people, but over time the details of their lives were exaggerated and revised in the stories people told about them so much that they became heroic, mythic characters. Head coming out steadily, then big push and head sort of a third of the way out. Prior to its broadcast incarnation in America HEIMAT also received very limited theatrical distribution.