>Seriously, does SoS 4 need some extra pieces to round it off?

No, it's fine. The problem I was originally musing about arises in the very last story of the Symphony, and anyway, at this point I've thought better of messing with it.

What we've turned to talking about now is a separate, semi-related problem, that being that the perceived expectations of what No. 5 is supposed to be doing aren't necessarily in line with what it is doing.

>Or is
>the side trip to the Avatar world a problem? Maybe the set of stories
>with Avatar should be spun off into a Aria, concerto, or another
>musical piece?

We already kind of did that with the Dìqiú Suite subset marking in the first place. If we were to go all the way and make the stories that are now Symphony No. 5 a whole separate FI storyline - more of a sequel to the four Symphonies than a fifth one in itself - that would probably lead to a further reorganization of the Dìqiú part, but I'm not sure what form it would take. This is all very much a thought experiment and nothing is decided at this point.

One important thing is that this wouldn't actually remove any of those stories. That's not what we're talking about any more; now it's more about the power of titles to set expectations.

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