[ SECRET POST #3805 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3805 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/mE8K7Cl.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of get where you're coming from? If there's an unhappy ending coming up, I'll usually just drift off and never finish the show (which I'm fine with, I do not care a single red cent about completionism). And I definitely think the best endings have at least a note of ambiguity about them. I guess the only part I really disagree with is that overtly happy endings are also fine with me.

[(Anonymous)]

I can understand this. My favorite type of ending is (depending on the story) "and the adventure continues." Sometimes I don't want everything resolved as much as I want to pretend the characters are going to keep doing what they are doing.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, exactly! In hindsight, maybe I should've explained this in the secret because it sounds like no ending would ever make me happy. I like endings where you feel like the characters and the story are going to continue as usual, but you're not going to be able to see it happen anymore. That's poignant in a way, but I'm happier thinking that my favorite characters are going to keep having adventures rather than feeling like everything just ends.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same way. I don't like things to end tragically, but I also don't want to flash forward to the future where everyone is married and has kids (because obviously that's the only "happy" ending that exists).

I just want the plot to be finalized with the sense that the characters are going to be all right.

[(Anonymous)]

I actively can't stand the flash forward to everyone being married and having kids ending. I've never once seen a series where that felt like a good resolution to the plot I had been dealing with for however many years and I always feel like it's just skipping a ton of character development, especially if the series dealt with characters who were kids/teens.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind this under certain limited circumstances, but I dislike that it seems to be the default, "normal" happy ending for a story. You rarely see a happy ending that involves someone being happy and single and enjoying their job, for example, or a couple who doesn't have kids but who are just fine without them.

[(Anonymous)]

I generally don't like flash-forward endings, not because of the marriage and kids but because I feel it removes too much room to imagine further adventures. I especially dislike the "Follow everyone until they die or sail west thing in the LotR appendicies since it's so FINAL. I don't mind it if it only flashes a little bit forward to show how people are coping following the finale crisis, or when a movie ends with brief descriptions of what the characters went on to do, like "Susan opened her own restaurant. Bob is now a successful used car salesman." or something like that.

[philstar22]

I agree. I want a believable ending. Not a perfect, sappy ending, but I don't want a "rocks fall, everyone dies" ending either. There is a wide range within that, and what qualifies as a good ending will depend on the fandom. Sometimes deaths of some main characters is appropriate, sometimes it isn't. I just want believable.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I'm fine with happy endings and I'm fine with sad endings as long as they're believable and fit the tone of the story.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, it depends on the show/story. I don't like sad endings, but sometimex they feel appropriate.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I love open endings where I get to "choose" what happens to the characters next.

And I agree so much with the tragic endings, or heck, even with tragic middles. Like that one tragedy that occured in The Good Wife happened way before the show ended, was the thing that soured me to the whole series. I can't watch the earlier seasons and enjoy them anymore like I used to. Or like with Person Of Interest. Destroy my fave and I'm outta there.

Stop killing my faves, showrunners!

[(Anonymous)]

I've been stalled mid-season 3 in Person of Interest for like 6 months because I know what big thing happens next episode, and I'm like, "intriguing plot and discussion on morality and security and technology, also Aaron Burr" vs "if I don't watch It, It never happened"

[tabaqui]

I get that. I really hate tragic, everybody dies/everybody is miserable forever endings. I just don't see the attraction or the *point*. It doesn't have to be a perfect, fairy-tale ending, i just don't want 100% gloom and doom!

[(Anonymous)]

That's why I liked the West Wing finale. There were goodbyes and people moving on, but only hints as to what they were moving on to, so you can imagine whatever you want. And I think the last line of the show was 'What's next?'

But my favorite is probably the House, MD finale. It too has goodbyes and that sad feeling most finales have, but considering one of the show's catchphrases was 'Everybody dies' people were expecting the worst. Instead, it was left open-ended and people could sort of choose for themselves if it was happy or sad or a bit of both.

One I didn't really like was ST:Voyager. The ship had been lost for the entire series and found a way home during the finale and that was it. So a happy ending, sure, but we have no clue what happened to anyone after that.

[(Anonymous)]

Voyager experienced a total power failure on the final approach to Earth, it crashed and everyone died except Janeway who miraculously was bundled into an escape pod against her will... Or so she said. It is the only way to explain why the crew testimony on the many and varied offenses and crimes she committed did not have her sent to gaol for the rest of her life, but instead she got promoted. The Evil Overlord Janeway theory is literally the only way to explain it. Everyone else on that ship must have all died on impact, it is the only way it makes sense.

[nightscale]

It depends for me, sometimes I'm good with an 'everyone dies or it's unhappy ending' it depends on how I'm feeling about the story. But generally I prefer things to be tied up on a more hopeful note, not necessarily everyone is married and has kids ending but that they're okay and continue doing what they're doing type of ending.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like endings. I also find the entire final seasons of most shows are usually lacking because they're wrapping things up. Some of my favorite shows got cancelled on cliffhangers.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Stargate Atlantis' final episode. It tied a lot of things up, but left just enough plot threads open so that it didn't feel like the final curtain. That the characters could and would go on, even if we were not there to see it. I liked that it tacitly ended the veil of secrecy too. It is just a shame the disastrous Battlestargate series that followed hit the reset button and left us leaving the entire franchise with a bad taste in our mouths, and the franchise needing a reboot.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but for me, Stargate Atlantis's finale is one I wish they'd left more open ended. Or at least left Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy instead of bringing it back to Earth. That was too much of a definite end for me. I wanted to be able to think about the team still out there having their adventures, instead of dealing with all the red tape and politics of having it on Earth, probably having another department take it over, likely the team being broken up, etc. it just wasn't a very happy ending for me.

[(Anonymous)]

i'd guess a lot of "show cancelled -> kill everybody" endings are the writers reflecting anger about the show's cancellation, while also making sure that they can't suddenly decide to pick up the torch and resell it again later

[(Anonymous)]

For me it honestly depends on the show, though I tend to prefer happy-to-neutral endings to sad ones.The important thing to me is that the ending is consistent with the tone of the show.

My all-time favorite is probably the Office (U.S.). It's a (mostly) happy one but there are definitely bittersweet moments . ( A lot of the characters have left or retired, though some stay around. Some characters get what they want, while others get what they deserve.

^But then, The Office was that kind of show with a mostly light, fun tone though the characters could be unsympathetic.

It would seem OOC for a show like Game of Thrones with its gloomy outlook and intrigue to end on a totally happy note, though I'm still optimistic that some of my faves will at least end up ALIVE at the end (if not happy).

[(Anonymous)]

Where was this picture taken?

I sort of agree.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really care for sad endings and some "happy" endings seem too pat. I like it when they tie up at least a few major things, but leave some up in the air. I like my endings to be somewhat open-ended with no huge cliff-hangers. I like ones where we assume the team or group goes on doing what they were doing (except for Quantum Leap - Sam should have gotten to go home). I loved the way White Collar ended, happy and sad, open and closed (in a way), and on the biggest con ever.

An exception is what I think is one of the best finales ever: Newhart. It actually erased the entire show, but it was shocking, momentous, and funny as hell. It was amazing.

[rivia]

based on this.... may i suggest watching black sails? because it ended like 2 months ago and i still can't sort out all of my feelings about it, but in a good way? kind of???

i just always want to rec black sails it's honestly one of the best shows