A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open ended nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Albert Moran is that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode."
In 2012, Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times wrote of daily dramas, "Although melodramatically eventful, soap operas such as this also have a luxury of space that makes them seem more naturalistic, indeed, the economics of the form demand long scenes, and conversations that a 22episodes-per-season weekly series might dispense with in half a dozen lines of dialogue may be drawn out, as here, for pages. You spend more time even with the minor characters, the apparent villains grow less apparently villainous."
Soap opera storylines run concurrently, Intersect and lead into further developments. An individual episode of a soap opera will generally switch between several different concurrent narrative threads that may at times interconnect and effect one another or may run entirely independent of each other. Evening soap operas and serials that run for only a part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end of season cliffhanger.
What does the author mean by the open-ended nature of soap operas?+E645

Options

A. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode
B. Every episode has a different story
C. Every episode ends abruptly
D. Consecutive episodes have no connection

Answer

A

Explanation

Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode