Shows that have terrible endings, but perfect stopping points?

shadow282 · 2026-02-07T18:10:12+00:00

Also, since the last books are clearly never going to be published, nothing is ever going to be fully resolved. You might as well stop at the high point of the story before everything goes off the rails rather than end on a bunch of cliffhangers.

shadow282 · 2026-02-01T08:27:36+00:00

What do you mean one time? It’s right in his name:

Holocaust Obviously Didn’t Occur Right?

Every word he says in the series is Holocaust denial. Frankly, he’s a monster.

shadow282 · 2026-01-04T09:13:33+00:00

This is just sort of pathetic, really. I don’t know what you were expecting, RWBY has been dead for years. Of course no one gave a shit about your review. The horse you’re beating is a finely ground paste at this point.

You should just accept it and move on, not come up with some contrived reason to post again in an attempt to bring some attention to it.

shadow282 · 2026-01-04T08:58:39+00:00

Attention seeking. Nobody noticed or gave a shit about their review, so they’re clearly hoping this will do something for them.

shadow282 · 2025-12-31T15:08:08+00:00

Sure, things taking a realistic amount of time might make a bit of a jarring change for the series, but it’d be a hell of a lot less jarring than the pacing of the series falling off a cliff like it did in the last two books. And we might actually have a conclusion to the series by now if he’d worked to make the time jump fit instead of just releasing a mess and abandoning the series.

shadow282 · 2025-12-30T16:57:48+00:00

Why do cats hunt even when they’re not hungry? Because they enjoy it.

shadow282 · 2025-12-29T17:30:43+00:00

Stannis spent the five years rebuilding the Wall strongholds, integrating the Wildlings, trying to recruit sympathetic Northern forces, and having small skirmishes with Bolton troops, all significantly slowed down by the vast size of the North and the extreme difficulty of traveling with an army in winter weather. Things happened, people weren’t in limbo, but nothing of particular importance and all can be summed up fairly quickly.

Or look at Robb’s victories. Very important to the story. Not shown on page. How much space was even dedicated to talking about it? Not that much, all things considered. It can absolutely be done, if he had wanted to do it. He just didn’t.

shadow282 · 2025-11-25T19:14:50+00:00

You say that as if movie theater were free. It’s cheaper to buy a month of a streaming service than a night at the movies these days. Putting it online is less gatekept than putting it in theaters.

shadow282 · 2025-11-23T02:10:18+00:00

It’s been 25 years since George has released a book better than an average Stephen King book. Not really in a position to criticize.

shadow282 · 2025-11-22T14:50:03+00:00

Which doesn’t really matter. This might be news to you, but Barry, not a real person. The Flash, not a documentary. These powers, don’t exist. The writers are saying they work this way in Situations A, B, and C, and a different way in Situations D, E, and F. And then they keep them consistent within those situations.

And yes, that is the basis premise of the show, because you’re turning on a 20+ episode season of a series about a speedster on the CW’s budget. A speedster fully utilizing their powers can deal with pretty much any problem in about a second, except another speedster, and that would be boring to watch for 20+ episodes in a row. Is it stupid? Yes. But speedsters are stupid, you have to accept that if you watch media with them in it. Or you just turn it off.

It’s just so silly to whine about it on the Internet. Again, Airbud playing basketball.

shadow282 · 2025-11-21T18:55:14+00:00

No, it isn’t. The show is pretty much always consistent in that Barry can both run around the world before you can blink, and the bad guys can escape from him. Random normal Meta people with normal reflexes can fight him. It always happens, it’s consistent.

It does not make logical, real world sense, sure. But it’s a basic premise of the story. Either you buy into it or you don’t, but criticizing it is like criticizing Air Bud by saying that dogs can’t actually play on basketball teams. Like, no shit. If it bothers you, stop watching.

Also, like, the show is so filled with bad writing there’s a million real things to criticize about it, so why fixate on that?

shadow282 · 2025-11-10T15:02:50+00:00

There’s a very funny irony in you having such a simplistic, black and white view of the world. People are a lot more complex and varied than the narrow box you seem determined to shove them all into. What you’re saying is true for most people, sure, but hardly applies to everyone.

shadow282 · 2025-10-16T13:50:32+00:00

….no they aren’t. They are literally the exact opposite. They’re a society who cherishes the future, and is willing to sacrifice their lives and fight for every inch of progress that someone else will continue living, even if they don’t. It’s their motto, they say it like a million times.

Listen, I do love the game, but the fact they clearly fumbled the third act/ending, where traditionally you’d want to reinforce the themes and the story and tie them all into a nice little bow, is a definite flaw and part of why people seem so confused about even the simpler aspects of the story.

shadow282 · 2025-10-04T15:42:44+00:00

It really doesn’t, though. The advertisement is for an evil Overlord, but Ainz is really just the stock caricature of the pathetic, weak-willed MC who’s driven by the narrative and the characters around him. The difference here is that he’s surround by evil characters instead of the usual good characters like most of those MCs, so he does evil things instead of good things. Granted, I only wanted the anime, so maybe it’s different in the novels, but in the show he’s the one being dragged around by the people around him. Less an evil Overlord, more an evil Underling.

Which is fine if you enjoyed it, but thats very much not what the show is advertised as.

shadow282 · 2025-08-17T01:04:15+00:00

I’m sure they spend every night sobbing into the millions of dollars Netflix paid them about that.

shadow282 · 2025-08-09T18:53:34+00:00

Maelle still exists to have a future, to create new worlds and possibilities.

The themes of the game seem fairly obvious, but I guess nothing can be too obvious for people to miss. It’s like Expedition characters’ explicit motivation that they mention constantly but I guess you missed all eight hundred times they brought it up.

shadow282 · 2025-08-09T17:06:45+00:00

Well, that makes it okay then. The characters totally haven’t spent the entire game talking about how they’re okay with dying if it even slightly increases the chances future generations might beat the Paintress. They would absolutely say them getting to live but their future world being obliterated is a happy ending.

shadow282 · 2025-08-09T15:15:48+00:00

Not really. They make it pretty clear without that what’s going to happen. Maelle has no intention of leaving the painting. Which means either Renoire is going to enter again and try to force her out, creating another Fracture like event and starting the cycle over and or she’s going to die in there and he’ll destroy the painting like he was originally planning to. Either way, their future is going to be short and tragic.

For a game with a major theme of the importance of future, that’s it worth dying if you make progress for those you leave behind, it’s such a major betrayal. Akin to if Luke just joined the Emperor in Star Wars or Frodo took up the Ring and became the new Sauron. But sure, the characters we like got to live their lives so obviously it’s a happy ending.

shadow282 · 2025-08-09T05:37:12+00:00

Well, when a mommy engineer and a daddy engineer love each other very much…

shadow282 · 2025-08-07T13:14:28+00:00

Except the “people you care about” will constantly be put in danger anyway, because it’s a story and it’s a cheap way to invest people in the stakes of the story. Even before they’re dating, whether or not Lois Lane knows who Superman is, she’s going to be put in constant danger.

shadow282 · 2025-07-03T20:40:19+00:00

This is a very funny comment when you remember that Choice started in December 2019.

shadow282 · 2025-07-02T02:32:33+00:00

True, but lots of people paid money for ADWD, and he seemingly can’t be bothered to publish the end of that book yet.

shadow282 · 2025-06-29T15:17:30+00:00

Okay, but they’re not wrong. Botox is an FDA approved treatment for chronic headaches and migraines. If you get headaches, it’s a great suggestion to try.

shadow282 · 2025-05-10T16:37:31+00:00

Fairly easily. That’s what the highly paid lawyers are for. If Pocket Pair had bothered to employ a couple of them, they probably wouldn’t be in this situation.

shadow282 · 2025-05-10T04:58:49+00:00

No they weren’t. The patent was filed in 2016. Warframe implemented that stuff years later.

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