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⌈ Secret Post #4064 ⌋

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Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

What are your favorite endings and final episodes?

Do you prefer to see everything wrapped up neatly or do you like some things left open to interpretation?

Re: Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

I have to say, just in general, I'm a sucker for the old horror movie thing where the villain's body disappears right at the end of the movie after you think they've been defeated.

Re: Favorite endings?

[feotakahari]

I tend to approach fiction in a deterministic, mathematical style: these are the constants, these are the variables, and these are how they add and subtract from each other. By the time I reach the ending, I want to know what happened, why, and what the outcome was. I’m not fond of open questions, unless the question sets up another equation in the setting’s future.

To give an example of what did work for me, I once read a story where physicists accidentally discover how to generate a field that makes gunpowder combust. The story follows how society reacts to the discovery, and what good and bad things happen when guns are effectively eliminated as a weapon. The story ends with the same research revealing a targeted assassination method against an individual’s DNA, with the open question being whether and how this knowledge can be managed. To me, that’s a good setup for a future equation, illuminated by the events that came before and the lessons that came from trying to control another dangerous technology.

Re: Favorite endings?

[kaijinscendre]

The finale for Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood was the best. Just beautiful.

I thought the finale for The Wire was amazingly bittersweet.

The good ending for Bioshock was fantastic. It is all u wanted for the characters.

Re: Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on the property. For horror or fantasy or anything with a contained story, I want a HEA. I want the bad guy clearly and thoroughly defeated and the characters going on with their lives, which look to be great.

However, for serial stuff, I'd actually like status quo. For instance, if I'm watching a police procedural, I don't want the ending to be a wedding with the main will-they/won't-they pairing (like CSI). I want them to end with defeating a big bad and it looking like they are going to continue on as they were for the rest of the show. I actually want the finale to be another episode of the show, not a very special episode that has nothing to do with why I was watching in the first place.

Re: Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

Newhart was one of my favorites - surprising and hilarious.
MASH was good, very sentimental.

I like the way The Terminator ended. But I'm also a big sucker for the everybody is happy and dancing endings (Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Flashdance, Strictly Ballroom, etc.).

I like either wrapped up neatly or open (with hope) as long as it's done well. I do not usually appreciate the everybody's dead or doomed endings, though I will admit that sometimes it's really the only way some stories can end and stay true to themselves.

Re: Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

I loooooooove ambiguous endings. Love 'em.

Re: Favorite endings?

[silverr]

I love, love, LOVE the ending of Buffy. (Season 7 haters can go fart in a paper bag.)

More recently, I loved the ending of The Shape of Water (and I shall say no more).

Re: Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

Somebody below kind of stole my original answer (Buffy), so I'll go with #2 which is "All Good Things" the TNG finale. That is how to send a Star Trek series out in style, IMO.

Also, Babylon 5.

Re: Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

I like things left a little open. SOME resolution is good, of course. But I don't want everything too neatly resolved or completed because it feels more like a definite ending. I like to imagine that the characters' lives go on even if I can't see what happens, you know?

Re: Favorite endings?

[(Anonymous)]

The end of Watchmen, specifically the bit with Doctor Manhattan telling Ozymandias "nothing ever ends" and then the bit with the journal. Just great, classic stuff.

Re: Favorite endings?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Lately? Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Halloween heist episodes.

I have a soft spot for the trippy "fuck you studio" psychadelia of The Prisoner.

What recent media disappointed you?

[(Anonymous)]

^^^^

Re: What recent media disappointed you?

[(Anonymous)]

Last Jedi.

Re: What recent media disappointed you?

[(Anonymous)]

Watched The Fifth Wave a few weeks ago, didn't realize exactly what it was beforehand (I knew it was about a hostile alien invasion, but that's about it). Did not care for the way some of the tropes were done and I didn't buy some of the motivations.

Re: What recent media disappointed you?

[(Anonymous)]

Crazy Ex Girlfriend, a bit, if not as much as it did some fans (from the looks of it).

Just not where I saw things going. But I also trust Rachel Bloom, so..

Re: What recent media disappointed you?

[morieris]

Cloverfield Paradox.

They're starting to be a get hamfisted with the mentions.

Re: What recent media disappointed you?

[fishnchips]

The finale of Star Trek Discovery was just ... bad.

Fanfic Recs!

[(Anonymous)]

What is the best fic you've read this week? Link it here, and tell us why!

Sunday Evening

[(Anonymous)]

I am very blue. How are you all doing.

To hate the presidency, you have to hate the teacher....?

[(Anonymous)]

New tax law prohibits teachers from claiming expenses for out of pocket supplies for their kids.

well. that's happened, AMERICA PUBLIC. hello, privatize-life where you can buy gun like a drink and drive maniac. OH, "gun with mentally ill", where you have the money.

Trump already set a standard for a leader. Not all president can be one?...

[(Anonymous)]

“America was attacked, and our commander in chief said nothing in response. He looks weak, not only in Moscow but throughout the world.”

"political correction?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/us/politics/trump-russia.html

Wait, I thought America embraces foreign interference with Middle East/Arab is the same thing?...

[(Anonymous)]

A president who embraces foreign interference is new to the U.S. But it is not new to countries that have for years watched their political classes fall in line behind Putin’s money and influence. We must come to terms with this new reality.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-clear-donald-trump-welcomes-russias-subversion-of-our-democracy

Are they set the bar too high for the future?

President Duerte....what's happened?

[(Anonymous)]

China is on the move. It appears they are about to occupy offshore Philippines territory