I don't mind unfinished stories if I know I'm not going to have to wait too long for the next episode. Billy Chase is a good example - like a favourite weekly TV series it's possible to look forward to the next installment.
The problem comes with when there's a bigger gap, especially for those like me who are becoming a bit forgetful A Class By Himself is like that - when a new episode comes out I need to re-read the previous one. Even then that's not enough because to read the previous one I need to re-read the one before that... It soon ends up as really needing to re-read, or at least skim, the whole lot. When it comes to huge works like Gone From Daylight that can be rather daunting!
Obviously authors are human (though I do sometimes have doubts about Comicality due to the fantastically intricate and believable vampire world he creates in Gone From Daylight) so they can't keep several stories going and churn out episodes for all of them at frequent intervals. Wanting authors to restrict themselves to writing just one story at a time would be creatively stiffling to them (I imagine).
So what's the solution? Well my personal wish is that authors would prefix each episode in a series with a couple of paragraphs reminding readers of the story so far. One paragraph could deal with all episodes upto, but excluding, the last one. The second paragraph could summarise the last one. So as not to burden the author, there may well be readers happy to volunteer to write those precis.
