I'm fine with a certain percentage of bittersweet endings - i.e. Romeo and Juliet die, but their deaths brings the end to warfare between their families, thus proving that hope exists, and there is good in the universe. But the type of ending that make me feel as though the universe is out to kill everyone, with no good coming from the deaths (I'm looking at you, George R. R. Martin), feels retro to me by this point. I've been suffering through that type of ending since the 1970s. That ending doesn't read any better, now that we're facing an actual apocalypse.
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I'm fine with a certain percentage of bittersweet endings - i.e. Romeo and Juliet die, but their deaths brings the end to warfare between their families, thus proving that hope exists, and there is good in the universe. But the type of ending that make me feel as though the universe is out to kill everyone, with no good coming from the deaths (I'm looking at you, George R. R. Martin), feels retro to me by this point. I've been suffering through that type of ending since the 1970s. That ending doesn't read any better, now that we're facing an actual apocalypse.