Stories that should have sequels!

Well Quantum of Solace started what like five minutes after the end of Casino Royale? And that was definitely a sequel :p

Admittedly I do reluctantly make one change to my style guide when I send stories here, but I've been tempted to forget about those arbitrary changes invented by printers and to return to the original way the written word was structured.

(Note: the below is the same sentence, in the original way the written word was structured

ADMITTEDLYIDORELUCTANTLYMAKEONE
CHANGETOMYSTYLEGUIDEWHENISENDS
TORIESHEREBUTIVEBEENTEMPTEDTOFO
RGETABOUTTHOSEARBITRARYCHANGES
INVENTEDBYPRINTERSANDTORETURNTO
THEORIGINALWAYTHEWRITTENWORDW
ASSTRUCTURED

Nice, organised columns of letter. All the lines the same length and no spaces wasted. Just the way it used to be.

Goodgulf

I think it's high time we get back to that. And leaving out the vowels, too.

Or should I say,

THNKTSHTMW
GTBCKTTHTNDL
VNGTTHVWLST

If you watch them back to back they feel more like one long movie than a movie and its sequel. For the first time in the Bond saga they effectively made a continuation movie.

If you look at my series, Jenifer to Jenny is made up of a story and its sequels while the parts of Arizona Vacation are continuations. That is, Jenifer to Jenny is a collection of stories written about the same character while Arizona Vacation is one long story that was broken into chunks to be more easily read on this board.

Another way of looking it:
Do you wish the first story was longer and went into more details, or
do you want to see the same characters in a different story?

Goodgulf

I thought the terms were 'series' and 'serial' but now we have 'sequel' and 'continuation.' I'm so confused.

I'm more of a Star Trek fan than a Star Wars one, but didn't it turn out that Luke and Princess Leia were brother and sister?

Yes, but they didn't know they brother and sister until the third movie. There's a nice passionate "kiss for luck" in the first movie and up until the end Hans thought Luke and Leia were going to be lovers.

Goodgulf

Why procrastinate when you can perendinate - with apologies to Mark Twain.

Yes, but OTOH in "The Empire Strikes Back," it's quite obvious (although she's in denial about it for most of the picture) that Leia is strongly attracted to Han Solo rather than Luke. She finally admits it to Han just before he's about to be carbonite-frozen for delivery to Jabba the Hutt:

Leia: "I love you."
Han: "I know..." (This would otherwise seem a bit arrogant, except that he's been trying to get the princess to confront her feelings about him throughout the movie.)

Luke earlier does get another sweet kiss from his unknown-to-him sister, while he's in the infirmiry on Hoth, but that's merely an attempt by Leia to 'prove' that she's not attracted to Han.

When Leia, disguised as a bounty hunter, frees Han from the frozen carbonite near the beginning of "The Return of the Jedi," he temporarily can't see and her voice is altered by the full-face helmet she's wearing. When he asks her, "Who are you?", she slips off the mask and replies, "Someone who loves you."

Since Luke is the primary hero of the trilogy, it's 'bad form' for him to lose the girl to even a friendly rival, but his sudden discovery that Leia is his twin sister (something foreshadowed in "The Empire Strikes Back") thus eliminates him from any competition for her romantic affections.

Of course, I do wonder what the princess ends up having to do for/to/with Jabba, while attired in a 'harem slave' outfit--she seems pretty enthusiastic about later strangling him to death when the opportunity arises... --C.K.

Either Jabba thought keeping a scantily clad princess chained up in his throne room would be a status symbol, or he had some weird humanoid fetish.