05-29-2004 On Endings
May. 29th, 2004 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kotaotanI've been thinking alot about ends lately. No big suprise really. Been thinking about them since January. Everything ends. Lives, games, stories. Even Kota's World. That would be next year at the soonest though.
What's really been on my mind is the way people react to ends. They tend to have something really big and grandios in their minds and then when it doesn't measure up they get dissapointed. Take the Hitchhiker's Guide for instance. Douglas could have ended with the second but people demanded more. It could have ended in any of the following books, but no. It had to end in the fifth the way it did. If he was satisfied, so be it. Seinfeld. People hated the last episode of Seinfeld. I didn't. It seemed fitting. Same with MST3k. I never heard a reaction to it's end, but I thought it was wonderful. Endings are different from the series themselves. They aren't really about pleasing the fans. It's for the creators. They want to end it the way they want to end it and make themselves happy. I always try to keep this in mind when watching one.
The funny thing is that I've had the last comic or two of KW written since I realized it was going to be plot driven. I did a minor revision after that so it wouldn't seem quite as angst-ridden. The problem was that I was losing interest in the story. I just didn't really care what happened. The characters were alive to me, but they didn't really live. I think other writers may have some idea of what I'm talking about here. Then when I was ready to pack it in really early something happened.
Cassi.
Suddenly everything I had in mind fell back into place. Characters that were flat seemed to breath again. Stories took on whole new meanings. The prophecy made sense to me for the first time in ages! All because of one character. What was best about it? The ending. I realized now how KW was really going to end and I was so happy with it I almost burst.
What's my point in all of this? Where is this leading?
Forgive me, gentle readers, if you don't agree with the way it ends. But really, when it comes to that final moment, mine will be the only opinion I'll need to listen to.
What's really been on my mind is the way people react to ends. They tend to have something really big and grandios in their minds and then when it doesn't measure up they get dissapointed. Take the Hitchhiker's Guide for instance. Douglas could have ended with the second but people demanded more. It could have ended in any of the following books, but no. It had to end in the fifth the way it did. If he was satisfied, so be it. Seinfeld. People hated the last episode of Seinfeld. I didn't. It seemed fitting. Same with MST3k. I never heard a reaction to it's end, but I thought it was wonderful. Endings are different from the series themselves. They aren't really about pleasing the fans. It's for the creators. They want to end it the way they want to end it and make themselves happy. I always try to keep this in mind when watching one.
The funny thing is that I've had the last comic or two of KW written since I realized it was going to be plot driven. I did a minor revision after that so it wouldn't seem quite as angst-ridden. The problem was that I was losing interest in the story. I just didn't really care what happened. The characters were alive to me, but they didn't really live. I think other writers may have some idea of what I'm talking about here. Then when I was ready to pack it in really early something happened.
Cassi.
Suddenly everything I had in mind fell back into place. Characters that were flat seemed to breath again. Stories took on whole new meanings. The prophecy made sense to me for the first time in ages! All because of one character. What was best about it? The ending. I realized now how KW was really going to end and I was so happy with it I almost burst.
What's my point in all of this? Where is this leading?
Forgive me, gentle readers, if you don't agree with the way it ends. But really, when it comes to that final moment, mine will be the only opinion I'll need to listen to.