This is so true, though I notice it more in TV shows than in novels. I'm an ancient, so I recall when Twin Peaks was on TV. More and more strange and odd stuff kept appearing ... and there was no way it could all be interestingly resolved... and it wasn't. I got the same impression from X-Files and the new BSG, though I never saw the ends of either, so can't really judge.
At a circus, it's enough if you have the jugglers juggle more and more cool things, in more and more outrageous situations. But in a *story*, you want all those items to make sense, to be part of the design, and for the resolution to be as cool as the premise promises.
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Date: 2009-12-29 12:28 pm (UTC)At a circus, it's enough if you have the jugglers juggle more and more cool things, in more and more outrageous situations. But in a *story*, you want all those items to make sense, to be part of the design, and for the resolution to be as cool as the premise promises.