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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’.
Responding from a month in the future, just scrolling this artist’s post history.
They’re just a decent artist with bad critical thinking and story-telling skills. I really hope they stop posting bcos holy shit this stuff is cancerously bad and it is consistently on the front page.
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.
I personally, just ignore the ending, and appreciate the amazing time I had leading up to it. xD
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.
“Too late, I’ve already drawn you as the soyjack”
The last season of GoT invalidated all of the growth that was witnessed in all the previous seasons, ruining the story.
How I Met Your Mother’s last season broke a spell that was over me, thinking that any of the characters were decent people. And allowed me to look at the whole thing without any of the nostalgia that carried me throughout the show. Was a young adult with questionable opinions that got better as I got older. The show seems to have never done so. And so I can say that the bad season did ruin the rest of the show, as I may have never given it a critcal eye if they had written it better.
I remember reading all the alleged leaks on freefolk for s8, couldn’t believe they’d be accurate, some of them just seemed too dumb to be real.
By e3, so much of them had been correct (well, at least from the parts of that episode I could see), I just embraced it. Was a far more enjoyable experience for me, at least got me through the remainder of it. Cracks showed before s8 (once they ran out of book material I think is when it stated), but there was so much dumb shit that final season.
We used to do rewatches, my partner hasn’t touched it since then and has said she probably never will, s8 just ruined it for her (she also leaned into the spoilers after e3)
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 heard it was an osterich. Allegedly.
What a stupid logic.
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.
I think there’s two kinds of shows, and this notion is true for one of them.
Burn Notice had a crazy and weird set of dramatic final seasons. I never bothered with them. But previous seasons were excellent things with only a few minutes focused on the central plot of unraveling the Burn, the rest devoted to serials of helping some innocent person evade a gangster. Always enjoyable.
But there’s other shows where all they are building is plot anticipation; just a growing feeling of “I wonder how this will end”. I’ve even become alerted to video games doing this with excessively long running series, or anything touched by the creator of Kingdom Hearts.
Each solid piece of media should have an enjoyable ending to it - even if it’s also building towards future endings.
I had been meaning to start Game of Thrones, but hearing that the ending sucks kind of killed all interest for me.
The problem with Game of Thrones is this:
They ran out of material to adapt. They hit a wall where they ran out of books and had to adapt Martin’s PowerPoint slides, and it shows!
“Surely if I satirize people who trash my favorite show, it’ll make me feel better about how it took a shit at the end.”
Was it Game of Thrones? If so, don’t worry, that’s not applicable either way,
because
it was always shit.
Nah first few seasons of GoT were peak TV. Then they shit all over it.
Dog shit adaptation of dog shit books, nothing but trash from beginnig to end. It was always going to go out like a bitch.
That doesn’t sound like a criticism, it sounds like the show was never to your taste and never would be regardless of its actual quality.
Thankfully I have some, which reinforces that I’m right.
I’m sure you’re always right aren’t you. I hope we become better strangers, you seem like fun.
Originally I was going to make the bon mot that it’s clearly not true because I was wrong for assuming you weren’t an imbecile. Funny, right? That’s went right out the window after I saw you get bell curved to genius savant status by actual imbecile @Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world. Deliberately misinterpreting you in a failed attempt to score a point for their yippie boomer obsession with agitprop is so embarrassing I feel like I need to take my monthly shower early.
You OK hon? Did I hit a nerve? Taking your time to mention someone in a completely unrelated comment is top tier lunatic behaviour, friend. Hope you find a way to deal with your issues xxx
The first season is one of the best adaptations of a novel ever done. But everything after follows a steepening downward bell curve.
I mean, a show tells a story with a start, a middle, and an end. Each of these sections rely on the previous one to build a world that the watcher can engage with it. If one of these is bad, it reflects on the entire show.
And out of these 3, I would argue that the ending is most important. The ending is what the entire story has been building to. All interactions and choices made have lead to this one point. And if all of those choices lead to an ending that is poorly made, it makes those choices that the characters made feel pointless. It leaves a bad taste of the possibilities of a better ending for the show.
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.
JK Rowling.
(I meant this satirically.)
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.
