[ SECRET POST #2259 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2259 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Epilogues in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

While it's easy to have a terrible epilogue, there are some stories where I think it's better to have one than not, because the larger problems are not solved by the final battle. For example, a sword-and-sorcery novel that would have otherwise ended with the overthrow of the Evil Overlord. You don't necessarily want to sit through reading the entire reconstruction of the kingdom, so having a chapter set five years later can show you that, yes, they recovered and thrived: the treaty with the trolls is about to be ratified by the now-stable Senatorial Council, the new king really is competent because he's handling the drought in the plains like a boss, the discrimination against sorcerers is becoming less acceptable because this once-bigoted side character just smacked someone down for a casually bigoted comment, and they just had a successful raid that ought to scatter the last of the loyalists. It can show lingering problems being addressed, giving a better ending than the victorious team standing around the rubble of the dark fortress and going, "Damn, what now?"

But yeah, most epilogues aren't that. I'm all right with most of the stuff other people hate in the Harry Potter epilogue, for example, but it's actually really depressing on a "how did the world recover" level. JKR can talk all she wants about how all bigotry got stamped out somehow, but Ron's one line about Confunding his driving instructor completely disproves every word she says. If it's still perfectly okay for a freaking Auror to Confund a Muggle for no good reason (and then joke about it afterward!), then nothing changed. All their struggles didn't accomplish anything: there will be more Voldemorts and Grindelwalds, probably pretty immediately, because none of the attitudes that led to their rises actually changed.

Re: Epilogues in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

I like your epilogue and would love to read the rest of the story, especially if the last chapter before the epilogue really did end with "Damn, what now?"