We deserve a proper ending!
This blog is a direct reaction to a show I just ended to watch and which frustrated me so much by the lack of proper ending.
Let’s have a beginning…
So we can discuss about ending later during the blog but to be logical we can start with the beginning.
Not having an end is one thing, but what about not having a beginning?
How often do you get a movie that just start in the middle of the story and reveals some of the original story during the movie but never the real beginning! How frustrating is that.
I have to admit the biggest offender in my mind are zombie movies or books or comics…
So here you are with a zombie apocalypse on your hands, people finding for themselves but no explanation what so ever on where the first zombie came from.
It is not that hard people to provide some beginning, I am not talking about twenty years of history here but hey, zombie happened following a nuclear explosion, a foreign liquid escape a factory….even the door of Heaven and Hell closed off…..give me anything to tell me where the first zombie came from. Seriously….
While we talk about zombies….I love those movies but they do challenge our logic big time.
When you see zombies that are just skeletons…..command people how do you want the bones to stick together without ligament,, muscles at least! Anyway love the special effects so keep it up.
Happy ending
So we are most of us like a happy ending, It motivates, it heats the spot of hope and definitely release that dopamine hormone we all crave.
But is a happy ending always the best option, I believe not.
Even though it is harder on our soul, not always having the regular “And they lived happy ever after” cannot always happen.
There is a specific book I read first in my early 20th and the ending did not seat well with me. It is a very good book from Daphne Du Maurier called Frenchman’s creek.
Spoiler alert - I am revealing the end so if you want to take a break and go and read it first then go ahead and then come back…
The story is about a house wife with 2 children who get kidnapped by some kind of pirates and they fall in love.
Her marriage is loveless to start with and now she has found love, but in the end she returns to her husband and children.
As mentioned in my 20th this did not make sense…but now that I have children myself then it all makes sense that you would return for your children.
Similar I believe the ending of the Horse whisperer, also a good movie.
Anyway lots of more examples could be given and the realistic or sad ending can also be a good ending that makes sense more than a happy ending.
Give us an ending….
So I know there are the people who feel that an ending is not always needed and your imagination should be used…..that is utter rubbish.
Is an author is making the effort to write a book or a movie then you need a beginning, a middle and an END!
Even the movies have THE END showing at the end to confirm it is ended, only Marvel start messing with us by always showing the next movie beginning or snippet but we will forgive them because we do love the old teaser!
Anyway I disgrace slightly as usual.
Give us an ending…that is what I am saying. OK so here is the K drama (yes I love K dramas) that triggered my frustration.
Blood from 2015, spoiler alert once again all will be revealed here.
So the plot is not too bad, vampires - virus based vampires and 2 different groups are looking for a cure in different ways. I will not go into the actual details and all the medical terms that looses us a little but that is definitely part of the charm.
Now so far so good except that the dying part really takes way too long but just my personal opinion.
So the main character sacrifices himself for the world, typical hero, no problem with that.
During the whole series he had been injected with we do not know how many different types of medications to reduce his thirst for blood, different poisons and so on…as mentioned we kind of loose count of all those items.
In the end, they make it very clear that his blood is unique, he is super special and it is even mentions that his heart does not do anything good in his body, as of it is pretty much obsolete.
Eventually he dies watching he sunset, and no he does not burst into flame, he is just a little scared and dies from being stabbed in the heart!
Moving on, his girlfriend goes on a mission to deliver a toy to some random kids in some East countries all by herself and end up being chased by vampires to be rescued by…….yes the main character who died.
I could live with that if they had provided more than just end credit there.
How did he not die after actually dying? How did he resurrect and his death was supposed to provide a cure to all vampire so why is he still a vampire?
The point it I was so disappointed, wondering and frustrated that I actually google the ending to see if I was the only one and I am not….so many people are frustrated and making wild assumptions of the ending really proving that this was not a good ending.
As mentioned even just her delivering the doll would have been a better ending, insisting on making it a happy ending actually confused the hell out of people and definitely leaves a bad taste to that pretty OK K drama.
