Stall: The story has been going on for a long time. ![]() This form of stall is most common in 'The Continuing Adventures of'-style stories, which chronicle the many exploits of a character or group of characters, rather than have a set end-goal planned. This usually occurs when the amount of time taken to tell an individual arc becomes horrendously disproportional to the amount of time that's passed in-universe (for example, ), leading to a critical breakdown of. Possible reasons for this are: Stall: An individual story arc has carried on for an annoyingly long time, and yet there's still no end in sight. When this happens, a story has succumbed to Arc Fatigue. Suddenly, the arcs stop keeping up interest and instead lead to fan outcry for a conclusion already! Eventually, the pace of a story may become so monotonously slow and/or repetitious that the fanbase at large give up on following the series directly, and instead rely on Reader's Digest versions of the stories, as told by their friends who still give a damn. They keep a series moving at a good pace, give it a greater sense of purpose, unity, and forethought, and generally help keep up interest in the story as a whole. Walt Kelly, at the end of a Sunday page Arcs are good. ![]() Crime While the team investigates the murder of an English tutor who stole a valuable artifact from a British museum, the new boss comes in and lays down the law.
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