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Originally Posted by ardeegee
A "serial" as in discussion in this thread/poll is a small segment of a much longer work that will, in the end, be collected into a single volume. Novels in a series of novels and episodes in a TV series are intended to always remain as individual novels and as individual episodes, not to be collected into a single thousands-page tome or dozens-hours video at the end, so they are not the same thing and nobody (but you) is trying to claim that they are.
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I've seen many episodes of Buffy, Angel, Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica that make absolutely no sense at all outside of the context of the larger story. Thus, they are not "intended to always remain as individual novels and as individual episodes."
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Originally Posted by ardeegee
(And, FWIW, modern comic story arcs are now collected into single volumes which many people wait for rather than read the issues as they come out each month. Two examples out of many here and here.) |
But this is arguing that that the collected graphic novel is the only proper way to enjoy the story.
Which it clearly is not since they were all published originally as individual issues.
So which is it that is being argued for? Stories that are "intended to always remain as individual novels and as individual episodes" or "modern comic story arcs
are now collected into single volumes"?
My point is simple: You don't like them, that's fine. Peace, read what you want.
But I like them...lots of people like them. Don't ban them.