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fannish5 was brilliant:
5 happy endings that you don't like.First of all, let me say that I am a huge HEA fan - a sad ending has to be freaking perfect before I would prefer it to a happy ending. However, there have been several happy endings that really put a bad taste in my mouth.
1.)
Avatar. Here's the thing (and I am doing my best to leave shipping out of this) - remember in the finale when Sokka had thrown away his sword and his boomerang and was hanging on Toph with his fingertips? And then Suki steered a hijacked airship to the rescue? Do you remember how earned that felt? Aang's arc (and, thus, the ending of the series as a whole) felt the complete opposite of that. When the main character is faced with a difficult choice and then refuses to choose until a third option is presented, it's completely unsatisfying.
2.)
The Bronze Horseman. Okay, technically, the first book ended bittersweetly, but I know that the next two (two!) sequels are going to be about the main characters finding each other and living happily ever after and frankly I was so frustrated by their choices and the author's 'no one has ever loved like Tatiana and Alexander loved' that I don't give a damn.
3.)
Buffy. I feel the series would have been stronger as a whole and had a more cohesive, thematically appropriate ending if the show had ended with season five. On a smaller scale, I think the Buffy and Spike relationship would have been damn near perfect if it had ended with "I know I'm a monster but you treat me like a man," followed by them fighting together, followed by Spike hiding his bloody face in his hands as he's face with Buffy's body. I would give damn near anything to erase the epic fail that is Seeing Red.
4.)
Alias. So in the end Sydney and Vaughn (only that's not his real name) and living on a beach with their kids. Did anyone care after the narrative fuckwittery of 'My name isn't Vaughn', 'Oops, Sydney, your fiancé's dead again', 'blah blah Rambaldi hoo-ha,' character assassination of the epic Irina Derevko, and Slone's face-heel-face-heel-face-heel-face-heel jig.
Was that HEA satisfying, by the time it finally dragged itself before the viewers? No.
5.)
Mastiff. See previous post.
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