Closure in fiction.

[karenthology]

Did anyone else here watch Defying Gravity?

Okay, so it wasn't the best show on Earth. It suffered from the same snail-pacing problem as Kings, and went overboard on interpersonal drama. But, man -- it was scratching my space-opera itch before it became just another show where I'll never know what happens.

To me, what happened to Defying Gravity

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[sartorias]

I don't see much TV so I don't recall inventing mythologies for closed shows--but I have reimagined endings for arc series that I thought ended badly. Like Avatar, the last airbender.

[karenthology]

I haven't seen that one, but you're not the first person to tell me that they thought it ended badly!

[tanithk]

In a way, Buffy, even though in many ways the ending was complete and reasonable thematically, I was so upset by Spike's death that I had to go out and find fanfic to read that brought him back. Then he showed up on Angel as a ghost, so I guess that doesn't really count.

When I was a teenager I loved Space:1999, and being frustrated by the lack of romance and character development, had to act out various new stories with a friend of mine to give it more depth. (Lot's of Mary Sue going on there, long before I came across that concept). The best one we came up with was with Maya and Tony where Maya is having extreme angst over whether she will turn out evil like Dorzak, the only other Psychon left. Wow. I haven't thought about that series in a while. Now I am possessed by a strong desire to rewatch it...

[karenthology]

I think writing Mary Sue is an absolutely necessary development in a writer's progress. We all have done it once or twice in our lives, especially as teenagers. :)

I wonder how Space:1999 would work as a reboot... I know very little about it!