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complain about babies ever after and other terrible things

kick the baby!

don't kick the goddamn baby!

everybody has their dream job
the characters don’t diverge any from the ending
everybody is happily married to their high school sweetheart with babies (who have the worst names)

all the people i know IRL who are happily married didn't even meet their spouse until after they got out of high school.

I'm sure there are lots of people who are still happily married to their high school sweethearts, but the people I know who did ended up bitterly divorced.

Everybody is happily married to THE WRONG FUCKING CHARACTERS LOOKING AT YOU DIGIMON EPILOGUE

LOL

This is definitely one of my peeves, in a way. I hate it when couples who may or may not still be pining away for each other (not sure which is worse) are with other people with little to no explanation. It's even more frustrating when they're with someone the audience has literally never seen... it's like, who the fuck is this, and why should I be invested in this pairing that came out of nowhere?

The Digimon epilogue came out of nowhere for the pairings. I tend to ignore it mostly.

Yeah, same.
Since everybody knows that Takeru/Hikari, clearly that epilogue is nonsensical.

Exactly. They were destined for each other and the other pairings are irrelevant since they couldn't even get Hikari/Takeru right!

Um yes. TK and Kari are the one child pairing that are clearly fucking soul mates and will obviously be happily married when they get older. Anything else can go fuck itself.

They were only the wrong characters for the dub, which added something about Tai and Sora being into each other as kids when there was nothing of the sort in the original version.

I like to pretend that epilogue never happened. Also, everyone ended up having weird careers too.

Epilogue? What epilogue? Everyone clearly knows there is no epilogue.

In the case of the Digimon epilogue, the pairings are made according to popular opinion polls. They're YOUR characters, you should be deciding how they end up.

And in the case of another series finale (that at least thankfully didn't end in canon marriage) when a character who acts like an asshole ends up proven right/rewarded for their behavior (Oh hi, there Mr. Hartman).

It doesn't add anything to the story and just feels like a quick recovery from a more open-ended final chapter.

When everything is tied up in a perfect bow. Alternatively, when NOTHING is resolved. I like a nice happy medium. There are answers, but still some questions; some characters get happy endings, some don't.

When characters who have demonstrated over the course of the series that they make a horrible couple end up together just because they met in the pilot in some "cute", "quirky" way and therefore they were destined to be together forever, despite the fact that they both had relationships at various points with other people that they were far more compatible with.

When EVERYONE ends up married with kids with a house in the suburbs and it's a sign that they've "grown up". Not everyone is interested in those things and it doesn't mean they're immature if they're not.

What's your opinion of single-camera sitcoms that use acting motifs of multi-camera sitcoms?

I hate it when stories end up with everyone getting married, especially with each other. It's as if writers feel obligated to to match up all the single people. They're not loose plot threads, ffs.

Happily married with kids. Just, ugh. Way to be heteronormative.

Every single character ending up married with kids, especially if they all end up with their high-school sweetheart. I just find that too unlikely to buy(one or two couples sure, but everyone? Nope).

Flash forward a number of years/decades and everyone is exactly the same, just physically older.

Everyone is working professionally in the career they planned on/were working in before - no one changed their minds or did an abrupt turn mid-career.

Everyone has a cool/cute career, like traveling the world as a photographer ("I have a big lens on this camera so I must be good at this!"), running their own cupcake bakery, playing in a band (that is actually successful), launching their own fashion line, publishing a novel, or whatever.

Everyone is far too successful for people that young and no way could they afford that apartment/house at that age.

No one got married to a character we didn't already know, or if they did, we never see their spouse. (There need to be more characters like Lt. Dan, who pops back into the narrative with a wife who hadn't been introduced earlier, like in real life where your old high school/college friends are suddenly getting married to people you don't know very well and there was no dramatic foreshadowing on your end at all.)

The book My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult had the worst ending I've ever seen in a book. "Rocks fall, everyone dies" would have been an improvement. All that effort for nothing. Man, between that and Mockingjay, I realize timing is everything when it comes to killing off key characters. If all I feel is cheated, like I dedicated time and effort to a heaping helping of NOTHING, I groan and want to bash my head in.

And another thing I've grown prickly toward over the years: Everyone falls in love AND every main endgame ship is heterosexual.

Any mental illness or neurological abnormality in a main character can conveniently be swept away and forgotten in the end by flashy heroics, being yourself, dreams coming true, or falling in wuv. Yeeeeeeah. I'm not sure if this actually works for some people, but it sure as shit didn't work for me.

For movies specifically: A couple, 99.99% of the time a man and a woman, sucking face while dumb music plays in the background. So much cringe.

Something that puts the ending in question, like part of the point of the story is that X turns out to be a good person and you find out in the epilogue that maybe he isn't. This can be pulled off well, but usually it's just annoying to me.

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