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Originally Posted by JSWolf
TV series quite often end on a cliffhanger. And you can call a series the book.
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I think you’re forcing an analogy that doesn’t work.
When tv episodes end on a cliffhanger, you can expect resolution the next time an episode drops. Back in the day, that might be a week; now, if you’re bingeing on Netflix, it’s instantaneous. In any case, it’s soon. Moreover, an hour’s worth of tv time doesn’t have nearly the investment in story or in run-time as an entire book does in plot or reader investment. And given the nature of tv making, you can watch an episode in confidence the next one’s coming. None of this applies to slogging through a book only to find it’s one big advertisement for the following one, which may or may not ever appear.