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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Comics and soap operas attempt to stay fresh by having new characters coming and going all the time (and both genre have many, many resurrections from death.) But a piece of prose that rambles on like that without end? That belongs on the bottom of a bird cage.
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Um, excuse me? There's a ton of open ended series fiction out there. Everything from Tony Hillerman to Agatha Christie. Or sf series like Miles Vorkosigan, or the Liaden books. (Many of those kinds of series actually have cliffhanger hook from book to book, too.) Family sagas.
That's not rambling or unplanned - but it is open ended. As with a TV series.
I think maybe you're getting the genre mixed up with the skill of the artist. You know what, there's a lot of rambling, stand alone works that belong at the bottom of a birdcage too.
I have to go back to this: Such works have to be properly labeled, so people know what they are getting.
Camille