[ SECRET POST #4328 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4328 ⌋

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[The Red Green Show]


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[Overwatch]


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06. [SPOILERS for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina]



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07. [SPOILERS for The Haunting of Hill House]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I had nothing against a happy ending, but the way it was just sort of... POOF EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER! seemed to not fit with the whole build up of the rest of the series.

Like... This house/the tormenting ghost(s) are evil enough to follow the Crains out into the rest of their lives, but suddenly ~love conquers all~ and everyone minus Nell/their dad escapes and lives happily ever after? It just didn't fit for me. It wasn't organic.

[(Anonymous)]

It is love BUT it is their father. He basically killed himself so he could protect them from the house.

[(Anonymous)]

on the one hand, I appreciate that Nell, as a force inside the house, is powerfully subverting it, and hugh manages to get olivia to do the same. I can see the three of them being a meaningful counterweight, but not one that could successfully unmake what the house is

similarly, the other siblings earn their happiness partly by finally coming together against the house - the house was *able* to reach into their lives before because of the ways they were broken and resentful and untrusting

BUT it's still an eternal malevolence, and it's important to me that the final monologue is in Steven's voice - trying to convince himself that it's right/okay to keep his promise and keep the house, because his mom is there, his baby sister is there, he's a believer now and everything is going to be alright...

(the house can wait)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it was that sudden or abrupt an ending, but different strokes.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this so hard. The ending felt bizarrely disjointed from what the story had been up until then.

I must admit, I probably wouldn't have liked the super dark, "they're all still in the red room" ending - but it would have at least felt like a far more natural continuum of the story.

Something I've been thinking about a lot recently is that lovely song they use at the very end, called "If I Go, I'm Going" by Gregory Alan Isakov. It's a gorgeous song, and in some ways it's lyrically very fitting for the story. But if you were to make someone watch the first one or two or five episodes of Hill House, and then you play them that song and tell them, "This is the tone the show is going to take at the end of the story," it's hard to imagine anyone thinking, "Yup, this fits tonally with the story I've been watching."