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ZiNgA BuRgA · 08/02/2010 08:59 PM

Considering that most (fictional) stories end with a happy ending, and in many cases, this only actually occurs because of some lucky event or major mistake the enemy just happened to make etc.
Do you ever wish that a story would end more realistically instead just to avoid this must-have happy ending?

Or what do you think in general - should there be more stories with sad endings?

Note, I don't think this really applies to game stories as a sad ending may imply to the player that they really didn't finish the game.

theEvilOne · 08/02/2010 09:10 PM

The way I see it, is that the ending that is created by the writer of the story depends on the type of audience they are trying to share their story with. Happy endings, in my opinion, are becoming overrated, but there are a few outcasts who choose to defy traditional standards and give the story a swift kick to the nuts when the ending is tragic or sad in some way. Then there are the stories that leave the reader/audience bewildered and begging for more, those of which give no specific ending, but a sort of out of the blue stop to the story in it's whole, leaving it up to the reader/audience to create their own endings, which, of course, could be anything they so desire. These, I think, are the most creative.

But that's just me.

Cirehpsa · 08/02/2010 09:22 PM

HAPPY FUDGING ENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't like sad ending n-e-more.

Actually I usually never even watch the last 2 eps of a show because I don't want it to end ^^

1-R · 08/02/2010 10:08 PM

Sad ending. :P

feinicks · 08/02/2010 10:36 PM

Realistic ending... sad or happy.

Like in 5 cms/sec

Another example: Would Cloud EVER... repeat.. EVER! beat Sephiroth? No. But the "good" people would feel bad, wouldn't they?

deathmock5 · 08/02/2010 11:13 PM

first when this thread said "happy ending" i was thinking something else,
and as for endings... some of the younger kids movies need to be not so cheery.

insted of having movies that have all of your dreams coming true for movies for ages 6-13,
some if not most should show the earth as a fudgeed to death pile of burning caca.

then when in there teen years, portraying that the only way to happiness is through, determination insted of wanting for everything to be ok.

then 18+ movies should be romance/comedy/hershey kisses

im just mean.

Kana · 08/02/2010 11:51 PM

whatever the characters deserve.
inglourious basterd? it's a sad ending i presume. but everyone deserved it and it's still an awesome badass movie.
district 9 was a happy ending (in my view) and it wasn't satisfying at all.(the movie was still good though)

it's all depends on how they wrote it and how you see and feel it.

Assassinator · 09/02/2010 12:26 AM

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Considering that most (fictional) stories end with a happy ending, and in many cases, this only actually occurs because of some lucky event or major mistake the enemy just happened to make etc.

Or the main character/hero just happens to gain some super awesome power right at the end, seeming out of his donkey (nowhere). Those are just the generally the crappy ones, although it does happen quite often.

I generally don't really have a preference, as long as it's a good ending. "Good" referring to the quality of the ending, not "happy".

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:whatever the characters deserve.
inglourious basterd? it's a sad ending i presume. but everyone deserved it and it's still an awesome badass movie.
district 9 was a happy ending (in my view) and it wasn't satisfying at all.(the movie was still good though)

it's all depends on how they wrote it and how you see and feel it.

So I take it you don't like sad endings? Because most truely sad endings the people don't deserve it. If they fully deserved it, then a lot of the time, it it's really a sad story (eg. if you're a serial rapist who went around raping people, and you got stabbed dead in the end... that's not really a "sad" story).

Silvertie · 09/02/2010 12:28 AM

Depends on the kind of story, in all honesty. But I don't think I've ever seen an out-and-out bad ending... pyrrhic victories, maybe, but not a true victory for the villain.

Assassinator · 09/02/2010 12:32 AM

Silvertie Wrote:Depends on the kind of story, in all honesty. But I don't think I've ever seen an out-and-out bad ending... pyrrhic victories, maybe, but not a true victory for the villain.

Sad stories are more often of the romance or drama types than action stories. Action stories almost always have happy endings.

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