Series where each subsequent installment is better than the one before it

[MacSpon]

@Chronos

Wait, they’re making a fourth one? Are you serious about that, or is it just a presumption based on the profit they made? Because they brought the story to its complete and logically inevitable conclusion. At some point, any storyteller needs to know when to stop.

Disney is in charge. Of course they’re making a fourth. Alas.

[Dr.Strangelove]

The Witcher 2 (RPG video game) was better than the first, and The Witcher 3 was better than the second.

[Quimby]

@DigitalC

Eh, I think it’s more of an outlier to think that episode 2 is better than 1. They are both crap, but at least there were some good parts in 1. 2 was just all crap from start to finish.

That’s not my observation. The giant battle at the end of Clones is a crowd pleaser and TPM is almost always at the bottom of people’s lists of the movies (except for people that really hate The Last Jedi). But it’s all subjective anyway.

[Little_Nemo]

@Chronos

Wait, they’re making a fourth one? Are you serious about that, or is it just a presumption based on the profit they made? Because they brought the story to its complete and logically inevitable conclusion. At some point, any storyteller needs to know when to stop.

It’s in production and is scheduled for a Summer 2019 release. The story will be about Woody and Buzz setting out to find Bo Peep.

[Quercus]

@Sir_T-Cups

Can you think of a series where each subsequent installment is better than the one before it?

So, the opposite of Pullman’s Dark Materials (Golden Compass) trilogy?

[Hermitian]

Breaking Bad Metacritic ratings for each seasons went 73->84->89->96->99.

Also their user scores for BB went 9.2->9.3->9.4->9.5->9.7. The Season 5 user score of 9.7 is their top user rating for a TV show ever.

[DrDeth]

@Mahaloth

Sure, but no way is each subsequent installment better than the one before it. Over the course of 40+ books, there were better ones and worse ones quite a bit.

Yes, but they trended upwards for a good portion of that 40.

[Peter_Morris]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Each season better than the one before.

[JohnT]

@Thudlow_Boink

Maybe the Gap series by Stephen R. Donaldson.

I agree. The first book was nothing much, a rather bizarre and skeevy trifle about a couple of rapists and their victim. The final book featured interstellar warfare and the overthrow of the human political and economic order. When I finished the series the first time, I was rather gobsmacked that all this (the larger story) followed from that (the first book.) So I re-read the first book and found to my surprise that it was all there - Holt Fasner, the Amnion, Warden Dios, Hashi Lebwohl, etc etc etc.

Definitely fits this thread - good suggestion!

[Shoeless]

John Varley’s “Gaea” trilogy. “Titan” is a gripping science fiction adventure story. “Wizard” cranks it up to 11. With “Demon” he pretty much breaks off the knob.