lavenderbard | A Bad Ending may be Better than No Ending... (Reply)

…But I’d really rather get a Good Ending.

So, news: During the past two weeks my health was only so-so, and I had a lot of downtime. Bummer.Fortunately I’ve a whole lot of practice trying to look at things positively. Although I didn’t make my weekly wordage goal for either week, if you add the wordage for both weeks together, the result is easily over my weekly goal.

So I didn’t have two bad weeks, I only had one bad week, it just wasn’t a consecutive week. 😉

Which brings me to the post title…

I watch a lot of asian dramas when I’m not feeling well. But IMHO one of the weaknesses of the medium is the endings. I just ran into one what particularly irked me. According to the reviews it had a “ambiguous” ending. Apparently “ambiguous” means that after forcing the heroine to tragically sacrifice herself by means of a scientifically-unsound plot device, and establishing that it is essentially impossible for the heroine to have survived, we will none the less show you scenes that make it look like she might have survived anyway.

I can appreciate a clever explanation of why the inevitable maybe isn’t inevitable after all, but I didn’t GET an explanation. So it doesn’t even matter whether she’s “really alive” to me or not, at this point, because either way it just feels like someone tried to play a very cheap trick on me.

I still have ~60K words to go to my next ending. But when I get there, I swear I will do a MUCH better job.