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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8868992" data-attributes="member: 6796468">That's the point. CANCELLED. Not ended.The story never ends, even when the show does, because the story is just "Here's these people's lives. And here's the various problems they create for each other. And here's where we add melodrama to make it more interesting." When the show is cancelled the character trajectory is "More petty weird silly stuff for the rest of time" with no actual resolution to what's happening.With stories as humans create them there is a protagonist faced with a problem they must overcome. They do their journey, they overcome the problem, and that's the end of the story. Even if their "Life" would continue, the big weird strange ridiculous thing that they had to overcome isn't going to happen again and again and again, and it's not going to be based in evil for evil's sake.Soap Operas and Space Operas are ever in the midst of a new evil that must be defeated. Whether it's a rival family that keeps getting more villainous through the generations (Or becomes the good guys and your family is a bunch of dicks, and you only realize it during the Christmas Arc but it's too late you've made them evil, again) or your own evil twin or just the nebulous idea of cancer, or a wrestling show with heels and faces that are heels and faces interchangeably because you need good guys and bad guys and the good guys become puppy-kickingly evil bad guys overnight because it's what you need, or there's an Evil Empire that returns no matter how often it's defeated and no matter how ridiculously clearly and overtly "The Bad Guys" the evil empire is that literally no one should want to join it.Toss in some magic stuff to make it Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, or Dark Shadows. Add some Laser-Swords and make it Star Wars. Put in silly space-technology to make it Buck Rogers. Add in Superheroes to make it the CW TV Universe of Green Arrow, Flash, Etc. Add in dudes in tights beating each other in a Squared Circle to make it Wrasslin'.It all comes down to a neverending story of melodrama.I don't mean that the story doesn't end. 'Cause TV shows get canceled, writers die, and eventually whatever it is will end. But the underlying narrative is ever unfinished because melodrama is always "To Be Continued" or "The End...?"</blockquote>

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