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Don't read this if you haven't yet watched the season finales of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and/ or LIFE ON MARS. I've finally seen both (we are TIVO junkies, so we don't always watch shows the night they air), and... well...
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ends with "God Did It." Looks like somebody skipped Writing 101, when you learn that a deus ex machina is a crappy way to end a story.
And now LIFE ON MARS ends with "It Was All a Dream." Curiously, I actually found that a bit more satisfying than the end of BSG. But still... really??? C'mon. Writing 101.
Oh, and while I'm at it, let me spoil the new Nicholas Cage movie, KNOWING. I actually enjoyed that one, mostly, although everyone else I know who has seen it hated it. But the ending... this time it was space angels who did it. And when the little kids starting running through the alien grass toward the glowing alien tree, I almost thought the boy was going to say, "My dad used to call me Caleb, but my real name is Adam," and then the little girl would say... oh, wait, you've seen it?
Yeah, yeah, sometimes the journey is its own reward. I certainly enjoyed much of the journey with BSG, parts of LIFE ON MARS, and even some stuff in KNOWING. But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?
Writing 101, kids. Adam and Eve, God Did It, It Was All a Dream? I've seen Clarion students left stunned and bleeding for turning in stories with those endings.
Pfui.
(I sure hope those guys doing LOST have something better up planned for us. Though if it turns out to be They Were All Dead All Along I'm really going to be pissed).
Don't read this if you haven't yet watched the season finales of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and/ or LIFE ON MARS. I've finally seen both (we are TIVO junkies, so we don't always watch shows the night they air), and... well...
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ends with "God Did It." Looks like somebody skipped Writing 101, when you learn that a deus ex machina is a crappy way to end a story.
And now LIFE ON MARS ends with "It Was All a Dream." Curiously, I actually found that a bit more satisfying than the end of BSG. But still... really??? C'mon. Writing 101.
Oh, and while I'm at it, let me spoil the new Nicholas Cage movie, KNOWING. I actually enjoyed that one, mostly, although everyone else I know who has seen it hated it. But the ending... this time it was space angels who did it. And when the little kids starting running through the alien grass toward the glowing alien tree, I almost thought the boy was going to say, "My dad used to call me Caleb, but my real name is Adam," and then the little girl would say... oh, wait, you've seen it?
Yeah, yeah, sometimes the journey is its own reward. I certainly enjoyed much of the journey with BSG, parts of LIFE ON MARS, and even some stuff in KNOWING. But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?
Writing 101, kids. Adam and Eve, God Did It, It Was All a Dream? I've seen Clarion students left stunned and bleeding for turning in stories with those endings.
Pfui.
(I sure hope those guys doing LOST have something better up planned for us. Though if it turns out to be They Were All Dead All Along I'm really going to be pissed).
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I think you’re piling presure on yourself just now :¬)
... okay so I haven't seen a RELIGIOUS person go through an athiest revelation, but Rorschach and his psychologist do
The writers of LOST have said that the people on the island aren't dead, but they also said that they wouldn't kill Charlie and they did that, so I don't trust them. But, considering they've given themselves an end date I hope they're working towards something massive and awesome.
I haven't seen the end of BSG yet (I'm about a month behind) but I have no expectations about the ending.
I thought the US version ended it with the only 1/2 plausible way they could to tie it up. Still disappointing...
I haven't seen all of the BBC Life on Mars, yet, and because of that, I refuse to watch American version and because it'll probably be second rate like most overseas TV shows that get americanized.
BSG was a good journey, despite the ending
Okay, as a
obsesseddedicated LOST fan, I love that you watch it, too xDif LOST ends with the dead all along routine, i'll be pissed right there with you!
OMG JOHN LOCKE!
So angry that yesterday I chased some pigeons.
That way people have to click directly on your entry to see what you said on the episodes, so it's easier to avoid spoilers by not clicking instead of averting your eyes in times. Much more safe for spoilerphobic people ^_^
It could have been space angels.
Heh.
But your point is well taken. And man, I hope the Lost kids have something better planned.
Thankfully, I think the show's past the They Were All Dead All Along point. But if it's not, and if they pull something like that, I'll friggin stop watching TV.
On Life on Mars: Maybe watch the brit show, that one didn't end with just "It was all a dream", also it had far better actors and writers. Seriously who cast that fridge as Sam Tyler?
Edited at 2009-04-06 06:04 pm (UTC)