04-29-2016, 11:07 PM
Since conversation is pretty dead here, I'm curious -
In the case some media doesn't get the ending it deserves, do you prefer badly-done endings* or no-endings**?
*Rushed, poorly-explained, sudden, too simple, etc.
**Where the media gets cut off before it can reach its conclusion, either from the author dying, cancellation, etc.
I can't seem to decide which I honestly prefer. No-endings make me enraged, since it leaves so many things unconcluded, and sometimes means whatever was ended will never get a proper ending... At the same time, a badly-done ending is the final conclusion, no matter how little sense it makes or how rushed and unsatisfactory, and as such is unable to be unwritten without retcons, therefore almost ENSURING it will not get a good ending without a complete continuity reboot some time down the line...
And then there's the dreaded BADLY-DONE NON-ENDING, wherein an ending is rushed to, but at the same time only a few major things are resolved (extremely poorly, as expected), while the majority of other story elements are thrown out the window in favor of "they all lived happily ever after the end yadda yadda see we totally gave it an ending!"
In the case some media doesn't get the ending it deserves, do you prefer badly-done endings* or no-endings**?
*Rushed, poorly-explained, sudden, too simple, etc.
**Where the media gets cut off before it can reach its conclusion, either from the author dying, cancellation, etc.
I can't seem to decide which I honestly prefer. No-endings make me enraged, since it leaves so many things unconcluded, and sometimes means whatever was ended will never get a proper ending... At the same time, a badly-done ending is the final conclusion, no matter how little sense it makes or how rushed and unsatisfactory, and as such is unable to be unwritten without retcons, therefore almost ENSURING it will not get a good ending without a complete continuity reboot some time down the line...
And then there's the dreaded BADLY-DONE NON-ENDING, wherein an ending is rushed to, but at the same time only a few major things are resolved (extremely poorly, as expected), while the majority of other story elements are thrown out the window in favor of "they all lived happily ever after the end yadda yadda see we totally gave it an ending!"