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kingstoken ([personal profile] kingstoken) wrote2023-01-07 10:11 am
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Snowflake Challenge Day #4

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Challenge #4

In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon


This isn't about one specific canon, but in general I find I have rarely ever liked the ending of most series.  The writers always feel like they have to have this huge dramatic ending.  Yes there has to be a climax, but afterwards please give us a soft ending.  I can't tell you how many shows I have watched where they end it with a main character dying, the team breaking up, one character going off into the unknown never to be heard from again, etc, and they always leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.  I want to think that after the show ends that these characters continue be friends, a found family, that they continue having adventures together.  So, if the show is ending for good (and they know about that in advance) I wish they would just give us a few scenes at the end showing the characters being happy.  Have Dean, Sam, and Cas living together in the bunker; have all the Stark siblings gathered at Winterfell; have Sharon and Andy happily married and helping Rusty move into his first apartment.  Give us the soft ending please! We love these characters so much and we just want to leave them in a good place.

(On a side note: this is the one thing I think some of the Star Trek series did well.  The TOS movies end with the original crew going off on one last adventure before retirement (we do not speak of Generations), TNG ends with the senior crew still on the ship and enjoying a poker game together.  And yes, some of those characters returned later in other films or series, but if you end it where it was originally intended it feels like a satisfying ending for these characters, the soft ending they and we deserved.)


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