It's just hard for me to fall in love with serial fiction where nothing ever resolves, and we spend hours just going in circles while they pack a two-hour movie into 8 hours. It's just not for me.
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Fucking THANK YOU. The subscription model took entertainment out of TV. I can tell when my time is being wasted.
sep 1, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the same reason, mostly, I stopped reading fantasy. I value stories with a beginning, middle, and end. I spent my time in the Serial Content trenches with the X-men in the 80s. When I realized most of these subplots were never going to resolve, and it was just constant Plot Churn, I gave up.
sep 1, 2025, 5:22 am • 38 1 • view
It is Star Trek: Brave New World vs Star Trek: Picard. I can accept that BNW's metaplot might not get resolved because every episode is still a complete story, usually quite good. Picard, on the other hand, has all the hallmarks of being a series that is just stringing me along.
sep 4, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
Read better serial fiction. I refuse to write any serialized fiction that doesn't wrap it's "current plot" in the same season. I try to keep it tight but fun, example: Season 1: 1-12 episodes is ideal. Season Plot + Piece of over-plot. Not having an "end" in mind is dumb Lit-RPG Territory.
sep 4, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why I can't get in to TV any more. Give me original cinema any day of the week instead
sep 1, 2025, 6:38 am • 0 0 • view