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> Will I ever recommend anyone with Glow on Netflix?

I think I've only watched season 1 of Glow, really liked it, and for whatever reason never watched the rest. I remember the season finale served as an ending of sorts. I'm sure season 2 opens more arcs to resolve, but season 1 ended satisfactorily enough for me. Anyone not watching because Netflix cancelled the show will miss something cool.

Glow is a fun show, but once the wrestling show found an audience and the characters found a certain degree of fulfillment in their wrestling roles, the stakes seemed lower to me. I'm happy with the season 3 ending as a show finale.

But I would still recommend it, or Song of Ice and Fire, because there are a lot of good parts for both. Same for Stranger Things. Is * really dead? It's not that important compared to how well it nails 80s kids horror fantasia.

In general, are you more likely to suggest a complete show or one that ends abruptly with several dangling plot threads?

Stranger Things season 1 would have been a fantastic show if it just ended there (without the final cliffhanger scene). I'd recommend it to everybody. If Stranger Things just ended now, I might still recommend it to everybody, but I'd be decidedly less likely to do so, and it would always come with the caveat "They didn't actually finish it." So not only am I less likely to recommend it, but the caveat means the other person is less likely to watch it based on the recommendation if I do. (I might also say, "Don't bother watching past season X," which is still bad for Netflix.)

I recommended Star Wars before the other 8 came out, and have continued this pattern since.

The Matrix, but without the other two, and the robots were using people for parallel processing not batteries.

Yes, and this is compounded by the season-ending cliffhanger.

What would make Glow finished?

They all grow up to 65 and become feminist writers, after having gone to the LEO as the first all-female space crew?

Not everything needs an ending.

You think The Kingkiller Chronicles will never be finished? I'd be quite disappointed by that.

The second book was published in 2011. It has now been 9 years between books and there's no sign of book 3 anywhere.

His editor posted on social media that they haven't seen even a draft of the third book.

If you have hope that book 3 exists, I would caution you to reign in your expectations a bit.

I have been waiting since 1993 for the fifth part of The War Against the Chtorr.

To be fair, respect for talent . When you can create a tv show the caliber of game of throne 5 years after the 1st book is release catch-up and over take the books. It makes you wonder if there is difficultly to completing epic, wheel of time dragged out, king killer and game of thrones. On the other hand Malazan seems to be fine thou it’s loosely bound, and the book writing AI brandon sanderson works 25 hours a day

To be fair, game of thrones, the first book in the song of ice and fire series came out in [1996](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Overvie...)

The TV show started in 2011.

Kingkiller Chronicles is only 3 books, hardly epic. It's a trilogy. The first book came out in 2007, second in 2011, and nothing has been seen of the third, and presumably, final book.

Brandon Sanderson treats writing books as a job, thus he writes every day. Now you could argue that his books aren't as entertaining to you (subjective) or that his prose isn't as good (a bit less subjective), but he does treat his job like a job. Whereas Rothfuss and GRRM seem to try to do literally anything but continue writing their books.

Sanderson isn't a bot but he has something a lot of people lack, work ethic.

Stephen King sits down every day and writes x amount of pages. 10 or 15 maybe, been awhile since I've read on writing but he talks about it in there. He is not super concerned about the quality of it, he just wants to get it out there. If those pages end up as part of an actual book then he'll obviously be going back over them etc. I assume Sanderson operates very similarly.

GRRM on the other hand agonizes over writing out perfect rough draft pages and thus never gets anything done.

Yea, there's usually two general types of writers, and they can be on a teeter totter so to speak:

Those that outline and plan ahead of time using the outline

Those that write the story as they write

Sanderson is very much an outliner, I think GRRM is more a it'll come together as I write it kind of person. He probably has some sort of plan, but it isn't as fine tuned as Sanderson's I suspect. Sanderson does multiple drafts as well, which works with how I write. My first draft may be complete trash, but getting it on paper helps me a lot in at least getting the ideas out and then I can fine tune or start over if I'm not happy at all.

But yes, I think Sanderson is very much a "I write regardless and I'll refine it over time" type of person and doesn't agonize over the little details until it's time to actually do that.

GLOW works fine regardless of how many seasons you want. Every season has an ending. There's no need to literally see every character's end of life like Soprano's and Six Feet Under

I feel like you didn't watch Season 3.

I feel like he didn't watch the last episode of the Sopranos...

Depending on how you interpret the last episode, you absolutely did. And, in my opinion, it got a great ending regardless of personal interpretation.

I'd agree you could interpret it multiple ways, but the poster said 'literally.'