Word: tele
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...WHAT IS A “TELE-EPIC...
It’s a good thing you asked, Mr. Subhead. “Tele-epic” is not a real word, but if I have anything to say about it, it will...
...refer to “War and Peace” and “Great Expectations” as “serial novels,” so, too, will we categorize “The Sopranos” and some of its lesser kin as “tele-epics...
Entire TV series, if deemed worthy, will be collected into tiny discs, or perhaps microscopic cylinders. You will purchase them from locations like the Coop. Then, hundreds of hours later, you will have watched one of the great tele-epics. It will be seen as a complete work, not as a disparate set of episodes and incidents...
...just as everyone regards the once ingenious and light hilarity of Tolstoy to be a tedious and dated chore, so, too, will future students of DigiMedia 1025: “The 21st-Century Tele-epic” complain of length and incomprehensibility. That’s why you should get on the bandwagon now, before any of the jokes...