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[faith_king]

A friend posted on Facebook that he read the first chapter of The Hunger Games last night and had no subsequent problems putting it down and getting some sleep. He asked his friends: "Do you think I'm doing it wrong

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[jackwabbit]

Oh. Oh, my

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[faith_king]

I don't mind a "down" ending if it's well-crafted. I read somewhere that the best story endings have both elements of win and loss, and I think that's about right.

Your attitude is probably the minority, but I wouldn't be surprised if things shift as the age scale climbs too. I was much more of an OTP type shipper ten years ago than I am now. But even then I wanted my ship to be against the backdrop of some bigger story with higher stakes.

(Enterprise SO TOTALLY ends with Terra Prime. Speak not to me of that... other ... thing... I already forgot its name. LOL)

I'm a few eps behind on Eureka... somehow I lost track of it during the summer. Will have to pick that up again soon, I guess, since I think S5 starts up this month?

[jackwabbit]

Too true that age affects this. I used to be more OTP back in the day, too, but I'm still not sure I didn't appreciate the "not happily ever after" ending. Hard to say. Memory is not the most reliable thing. ;)

As for Terra Prime...OMG yes. So perfect. So lovely. So sad, but so right. The whole thing with Trip telling T'Pol about what Phlox discovered hinting at Spock and...oh, just be still my heart. Sigh. The end of Enterprise for sure.

Eureka is marathoning sometime soon (Monday?) in prep for the new season, which starts on the 16th. I saw a tweet about it. Maybe check Colin Ferguson or Neil Grayson's Twitter?

[melyanna]

For me, the quality of the ending is entirely dependent on the tone of the story preceding it. I haven't read the Hunger Games series, but I strongly suspect that a sunshine-and-puppies ending would be jarring to the point of ruining everything that came before. But a rocks-fall-everyone-dies ending in Little House on the Prairie would have been just as bad.

(Ambivalence: I has it.)

[jackwabbit]

Agreed.

Narnia, anyone? ;)