Thursday, September 22, 2011

Choose a fucking ending. Please. For the love of Pete!

I just watched a movie (Last Night), and am thoroughly irritated with the ending.  I mean, really.

I could handle either direction.  They talked, they didn't talk.  They fought.  They broke up.  They made up and pushed forward.  But for the love of all that is holy, suck it up and give me an ending.

Dragging things out for people to decide for themselves how something ends is a major fucking cop-out.  It's goddamned lazy.  And there's nothing in a good story I hate more.

The rest of the story was solid.  The rest of it was deep, moving, and absolutely felt real.  But they had to leave it on an in breath that was clearly at the beginning of the spoken word, leaving you to decide what happened?

Take some responsibility for your stories, writers!  FINISH.  Maybe some people won't like the ending.  Maybe only a handful will.  But finish.  Writing a work of fiction is not a choose-your-own-adventure for grown ups.  The grown ups want to have resolution.  Give it to them.  Please.

Pete loves you, he doesn't want to have to murder you in your sleep with a baseball bat.  Don't make him.

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