[ SECRET POST #4573 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4573 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

You can be upset about a bad ending, but you can also rewrite it yourself. This is what fanfiction and headcanons are for.

Like, I lopped off the last couple of minutes of Dexter in my head and that makes it all better.

[(Anonymous)]

I lopped off the last three seasons. xD

That's standard practice for me, with basically every show. "Oh, I stopped liking this around season [whatever]. Cool. Guess I'm done." Like, just get off the train when it stops being fun. People act like entertainment has to be 10/10 the whole way through and idgi.

But then, Im a writer so I guess I'm always just handwaving shit anyway, so it's easier for me to make up an ending I'm happy with.

[(Anonymous)]

uuuuuuugggghhhhhh

DEB DESERVED BETTER

[sparklywalls]

I try to have this attitude and I do indulge in fanfic etc when I didn't like how something ended.

But the way How I Met Your Mother ended changed how I see the entire show. It's the one thing I really enjoyed at the time but haven't been able to revisit. On a similar sitcom vein I wasn't particularly taken with how Friends ended but can still watch all the episodes. Not able to do that with HIMYM.

[(Anonymous)]

TV shows can be so long that the journey can be just as (or even more) satisfying than a great ending.

[(Anonymous)]

For me it really depends on what kind of shadow the finale throws on the show as a whole.

To keep it recent: So many of my favorite scenes in Game of Thrones were about Dany subverting expectations (for example by actually listening to her advisors) or doing good things (freeing the Unsullied) and I just can't rewatch those scenes without having that last season/the finale hanging over me.

Meanwhile with some other shows, where I disliked the finale, I can easily ignore it and read fix it fic. My favorite character didn't die, my ship got together etc.

[feotakahari]

I’ve never felt this way at all. To me, a good story is a progression, A proceeding to B to C. If B proceeds inexplicably to Q, the progression is broken. That’s also why I don’t read stories that got cancelled before they finished, or long-running comics that got retconned so much they never had a chance to meaningfully progress.

[(Anonymous)]

I would strongly encourage those people to stay away from American Horror Story LOL.

(I agree BTW.)

[(Anonymous)]

If the show doesn't have much of a arcing plot, then sure, but if the show does have arcs, then the ending might culminate many questions that may have been burning since the very beginning of the series. So to get a bad ending in that case, of course people are going to be upset. It's like that joke about the monks and the monastary with all the doors. You keep leading the audience on for like 20 minutes, with the main focus being what IS behind the door. And when you eventually reveal the punchline (that you cant tell them because they're not monks) everyone naturally goes apeshit. What's hard to understand about that? Sounds like you're just annoyed at everyone complaining about GOT, which people rightfully got upset about because the story threads in that show have been going on for years now. To get a conclusion like that is disgraceful.

[(Anonymous)]

"Disgraceful"?

[(Anonymous)]

There are definitely such a thing as good and bad endings, but every early season of GOT is just as it was before the final season was released.

It depends on the end.

[(Anonymous)]

Because a bad ending that shows that certain story points were red herrings or were just wrong does make the episodes before it worse. A bad ending that shows that a character didn't actually experience the character growth the viewer thought they were building to means that any signs of this in previous episodes are irrelevant. A bad twist ending reframes the episodes before it just like a good twist ending. And if there is an overarching story arc that a bad ending doesn't serve well, that can negatively affect the viewing of the previous episodes.

[(Anonymous)]

Is this secret written by Larry David?

[(Anonymous)]

Stop having feelings about something you were invested in for a time! You actually think an ending should be respectful of the things leading up to it? You're not a true fan unless you roll over and blindly accept whatever shit the writers throw at you! Also, you're not allowed to appreciate previous episodes AND be mad at the ending at the same time! Freak!

Seriously, that's what this secret sounds like.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like you don't understand what a *narrative* is, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't believe that the quality of a narrative is determined entirely by how satisfactory its ending is, or that the best / only way to look at a television series is as one single unfolding unitary narrative.