Hi Dark, Yeah, I agree with that. It is better to let a series come to some kind of final conclusion rather than let it go on and on forever. I've seen series that drag on and on for years and it seams at some point all it does is ends up getting worse and worse the longer it drags on. Authors run out of new ideas, new ways to market it, and eventually nobody wants to read, watch, or listen to it any more. The longer it drags out the more ways the author has of screwing up the story.
For example, let's take Xena Warrior Princess. It was a television series I was fond of. I watched it clear up until season 4, and then it took a nose dive. Around season 5 it really began to get worse and the storylines for the epasodes weren't that good compared to the first couple of seasons. Even worse when they finally did reach the last epasode in season 6 they ended it with Xena being beheaded and Gabrialle walking away crying. They killed it because I think they had too long with the series, and by season 5 and season 6 they were frankly out of ideas how to progress the series any further. Star Trek Next Generation is another case in point. In general the entire seven seasons were all fairly good. It remains my favorite television series of all time. The only thing is when they decided to go to the big screen they ruined the series in a big way. In Star Trek Generations they destroyed the Enterprise, and had to replace it with a newer looking Enterprise in First Contact. Data finally got his emotion chip which forever changed his character that could be good or bad depending on your point of view. What really took the cake is Star Trek Nemesis. Yeah, they finally brought the Riker and Troi relationship to a close by marrying them at the beginning of the movie, which was good, but they killed off Data, destroyed the new Enterprise, and Riker finally got his own ship at the end of the movie. I'm sorry, but I think they had too much time to screw up the Next Gen series. They'd have been better off to end it at All Good Things, and then leave it at that. Anyway, like I was saying regardless if it is Xena, Star Trek, Star Wars, or Harry Potter the longer the author has to drag a series out the longer he or she has of ruining it. I'm personally glad J. K. Rowling ended it at Deathly Hallows, because it was one of those series that had a potential for going on forever, but it would have eventually lost its charm if it was out there for too long. In a way, I think J. K. Rowling did ruin the series at the end because many of the main characters were killed off by the end of the series. Not exactly the happy ending we were expecting. Cheers! On 3/8/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually Muhammed I'm afraid I totally disagree. > > I'm really not a fan of series of books or tv series that just go on and on > and on without ending churning out one thing after another getting worse and > worse and never actually resolving plot. > > Startrek voyager rather fell into this gap, as have many anime which go on > for hundreds of episodes with not much happening. > > personally while I love harry potter, I think jk rowling is right to let the > story end as a complete story rather than dragging it out. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
