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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks
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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Look-- pull out a DVD of Buffy, Angel, Babylon 5, or Battlestar Galactica. Are all the episodes of the season edited into one giant episode, with no closing credits and opening credits in between? Or are they packaged as individual episodes, each with opening credits, "previously on" segments (for some of them) and closing credits for each one?
I'll wait while you look through your DVDs...
See? They are still presented as individual episodes--
exactly like I said.
With a serial novel, however, when it is finished, the whole thing
is consolidated into a single novel in the end. You are comparing apples and Nevada.