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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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You do have to wait months for the next season to appear. With Netflix, if the cliffhanger is in the last season that's available, then you'll have to wait an unknown amount of time for the next season.
But with a book series, you don't know how long the next book will be.
It is similar except the time between is a lot longer with the book then the TV series.