Issue with Inheritance when using nested Generic classes in C#

Question

I\'m trying to create a class hierarchy such that I can have:

SpecificScreenController < ScreenController < Singleton

So far I have these set up as:

Answer 1

The problem here is one of covariance. You're assuming that if SpecificScreenController inherits from MonoBehaviour then ScreenController also inherits from ScreenController. It doesn't. You can't do this cast.