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⌈ Secret Post #2764 ⌋

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[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal]

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[Teen Wolf]

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[Game Grumps]

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[Spring Awakening]

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[Free! Eternal Summer]

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[Penny Dreadful/Sherlock Holmes]

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[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]

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[Tucker & Dale vs. Evil]

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[he Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - Benedict Cumberbatch/Andy Serkis]

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I hate, hate, hate people who want something to end a certain way, and then when it doesn't, they say "oh it could've been so brilliant and amazing, but it's awful because I didn't get the ending I wanted."

How about not expecting writers to know and cater to exactly what you want? How about learning to appreciate stories for what they are, rather than for whether or not they fit into the box that you've dreamed up for them? How about not dismissing an entire work because there was one thing in it that you didn't like?

What makes it even worse to me is that usually, what people want is a pat, happy ending. Everyone complains about the infamous Harry Potter epilogue, but so many people want exactly that. They want it in everything. And they slam the book or movie or TV show or game when they don't get it.

Blah blah, I should blow it out my ass, really.

Ugh, nothing bothers me more than people who complain when things don't have a happy ending, especially when a happy ending would've made no sense given the rest of the story.

See: Wolf's Rain, Guilty Crown, Gankutsuou, Cowboy Bebop, and Le Chevalier D'Eon for a few examples. I don't know how anyone could watch those shows and think "yes, this will totally end happily!"

This might be a stupid question, but do you not consider Gankutsuou to have a happy ending? Most of the likable characters come out alive and well, with a couple exceptions.

Edited 2014-07-29 06:37 (UTC)

Anything in particular that caused this, because I feel like that would shed some light on this and make it a bit more clear, because I've had similar feelings to what you've described and wondering if you think it can ever be justified, like if someone brings up "legitimate" complaints about how an ending doesn't fit or something.

I would consider

1) "it's awful because no magical twist happened to give everyone the happy, pat ending I wanted"

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2) "it's awful because 50 plot threads were started then dropped for no reason, the main character didn't get any development by the final scenes, and none of the cast's issues were resolved at the end"

two very different things. You appear to be lumping them into the same complaint for some reason.

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