Sequels

Sequels seem to be a big thing in the present era along with the beloved remake. I mean we have Charlie Angels (the television series), Charlie's Angels (the movie), and Charlie's Angels Full Throttle(the sequel). Legally Blondewas such a success in the box office it was felt they needed another movie (especially since they really didn't do any marketing for the first), so arrived Legally Blonde: Red, White and Blonde. Was the sequel the success of the original? No, but it was cute. And at this moment yet another Batman film is in the making. Of course, how many people have portrayed Batman by now?
The same goes for television series, but then television series are a series of stories or sequels. Now fans of Xena Warrior Princess didn't want to see the series end. Even if the series itself ended they wanted the series to continue with movies. Xena did not end in a way that movies could be made to keep the story going. This was a decision made by the producers of the story to keep the basic story intact. The same type of decision was made for The Dick Van Dyke Show. Because the story was so favored by the audience it was better to end the story before the stories themselves became dry.
The series Angel had to end because it lost its audience despite the fact that there were fans who wanted the series to stay on the air. It ended the way they wanted Angel to be remembered, Champion finding for good. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, on the other hand, ended in a mist of drudgery as the story had continued for way to long, and the characters lived in a bitter reality. The series Roswell continued too long, because the story lost its direction especially since they added more characters to try to make the story more interesting to the public. So, how long can one story keep going?
Stories should always start out with a basic premise or goal. This was discussed in one of my earlier articles. The character can have a major life goal they want to achieve and a goal for the moment that gets them to that goal. The thing is, once a character achieves that major life goal that part of their life's story is over. If the character never achieves or gets close to that lifelong goal their life becomes stagnated, and their life goes nowhere. That is why in life we have to change jobs, are laid off from jobs, or quit jobs. No one can stay at the same job forever, because life would be boring. That is why the worse mistake one can do is keep a story going when the storyline is running thin. Stories have to end just as we have to admit the mortal fact that at some time we all have to die. We, as a people, are a story, an autobiography, and we all have to end.

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