Seriousfic's guide to epic sci-fi storytelling

[seriousfic]

Any series which has an exhaustively planned out story with satisfying answers and a clearly delineated beginning, middle, and end... will be canceled after one season.

Any series which raises a bunch of insane, thought-provoking questions without a backstory planned out will run for five years, introducing even more insane, thought-provoking questions before revealing that a wizard did it.

Comments

[tamburlaine.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

[morwen_peredhil]

YES

[mcity.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that two examples of the first immediately leap to mind. At least Firefly got a movie, but FlashForward is just plain screwed.