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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
I love series - I love to revisit old friends.
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They are characters, not people.
Besides, you can always reread a book if you wanna more of a character. Oliver Twist anyone?
Here's what Stephen King said about story vs characterization:
"my deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount. . . . All other considerations are secondary - theme, mood, even characterization and language."
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I'd say a book is all about story and a series all about characters. I tend to agree with King.
Focusing on characters, specially well-known characters the audience already knows well, is limiting and puerile. There's no space for character development anymore: Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter are already finished as they are -- you change them, the public complains.
Look at what is happening at comics, for instance, there's no way to milk away these guys anymore. They killed Superman, he's back and already they try to change his outfit for something more modern than a red underwear over wear, but he's still same Clark Kent as always. They made Peter Parker wed, have child, but he's still living same old adventures, beating same old villains with same old friendly punchlines. They try to reimagine the heroes in different universes to cater to different audiences, they even went so far as to put Marvel heroes as zombies in an appocaliptic universe. Yes, you heard it right. What's next in ridiculousness to appease series addicts? Superheroes as emo vampires? Characters don't even matter anymore, it's just like, "let's see what happens when popular character X faces ridiculous situation Y"
This gotta stop. Please some talented writer with real balls comes forth, writes a book with some damn good story and kills the protagonist at the end.