Restacking my spoilerific responses to a novel-length review of my serial Foreign Body:

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"Shooting the sheriff in the first para", I love that—yeah this began life as a potential collab with a filmmaker—so part 1 was drafted as a sizzle reel or proof-of-concept for the pilot of a TV series. That's why it takes off with a bang like that. I do agree a lot of serials take so long to get started that readers lose interest—the entire audience is ADHD now, that was just my way of dealing with it...