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Shows all sort of suck after about the 5th episode. They all start doing filler at some point.
Except that isn’t the same logic?
A show’s ending is the culmination of its plotlines. A bad ending essentially invalidates all the plot development of the show.
Similar logic applied to a human would be if someone spent all their life trying to cure cancer and told everyone about how they were about to release the cure to then, suddenly, abandon the project, destroy all research so no one else can use it, and fuck off to retire in Tahiti.
What a stupid logic.
If a story doesn’t have a satisfying conclusion, then I would say starting the story is pointless.
in the same way, if someone cures cancer and fucks one chicken…
I think both “the show had 5 great seasons but a terrible ending” is as bad as “the show has 3 bad seasons but the last 2 are great!” are equally bad and reasons that I would not watch something.
It’s not like there aren’t hundreds of other options.
Babylon 5 was a great show… with this caveat:
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Season 1 is slow and you won’t know how important it is until you watch 2, 3, 4.
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Season 4 is the single best season of sci fi television ever produced, but you have to have seen 2 and 3 to fully appreciate it.
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The reason Season 4 is amazing is because they didn’t know they were getting a Season 5 so they stuffed 2 seasons worth of television into 1.
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Then they got renewed for Season 5 by a different network and were like “Season 5… um… yeah! We totally have a plan for that… Yeah… totally ready to go.”
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Disagreed, there are many shows that spend seasons building on the ending that if the ending is really bad, it makes the rest of the show feel pointless.
GoT comes to my mind with this. The whole show are these giant buildup to the war in the north, the dragons, Westeros power grabs, Jamie’s character arc, children of the forest, and other cool concepts that ended in a pathetic wet fart of a final season. It makes watching the show feel like a waste. when you know at the end its just a wet fart.
Having the white walkers built up as an unimaginable threat for the entire series only to be toppled by catapult Arya was the biggest wet-fart turd on a wagyu steak dinner.
Unimaginable horrors beyond your comprehension Ends up just being some popsicle ass MFs who all die when the lead Mcfrozen nuts gets shanked.
Grim comes to mind. It ended so abruptly I just regret watching it at all.
Ugh why did you remind me of this? Grimm was such a good show only to just fucking nosedive right off a cliff one day.
If a show tells you it’s building to something, then fails to deliver, it has disrespected all the time and effort invested.
See:
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
How I Met Your MotherOr when it ends on a cliffhanger just to get canceled. That really ruins how I feel about a show.
Really putting the “ass” in comparison there. Also, if a person say… wrote a best selling beloved children’s book series, but then heel-turned into a piece of shit, it absolutely does ruin their entire body of work for a lot of people.
Like, this happens, what is the comic even talking about?
Context can certainly change over time. If Rudy Giuliani died in 2002, he’d be remembered as ‘America’s Mayor’.
How cruel a joke it must be for a God to create beings that crave consistency in a universe where the only consistent thing is change.
Really feels like the comic artist wrote ‘died like an idiot’ to argue against himself in bad faith from the get go
What no? A show has a narrative structure - buildup to a disappointing end devalues all of that which came before.
A narrative and a person ain’t the same. It also follows that we evaluate them differently
This comic is out of touch with the politics of Netflix style script writing where there’s no story arc being followed.
Do Netflix shows even get to a finale? Unless its an enormous hit like squid game or stranger things, they just cancel it.
Meanwhile you have BNA:Brand New Animal, A show with an ending so bad it taints everything that leads up to it. I have never seen a show undermine its own message like that.
“Too late, I’ve already drawn you as the soyjack”
Like a punchline is to a joke, the ending is the most important part of a story. The conclusion gives the journey meaning. Blowing the ending can - and often does - retroactively ruin an entire narrative. This comic is akin to saying “a bad punchline doesn’t ruin a whole joke.” It does. In the same way, a bad or missing conclusion undermines the narrative as a whole.
Let’s say you build a bridge. You build the nicest on-ramp, you put the nicest lamp posts, the nicest pavement, and the most beautiful railings in the history of bridges. And the bridge ends on a cliff. There might be some nice views on top of the bridge to nowhere, but it’s a bridge to nowhere.
That’s a work of fiction with a bad ending. A work of fiction is a work, not a person, so where it leads to is very much an integral part of the work.
JK Rowling.
(I meant this satirically.)
