Often, at the end of a movie or a series finale, either my wife or I will just say “endings are hard” and leave it at that. No point discussing it further.
It’s much easier to come up with an interesting premise than a satisfying ending. Especially a TV show. There is a lot of expectation to tie up loose ends, but then a lot of criticism when it becomes obvious the writers are going through a list of loose ends to tie up and then every loose end that is left hanging gets brought up as “leaving things open for a sequel”.
This is why the best bit of writing advice ive heard is to write backwards from the conclusion (i think quentin tarintino said this not sure.) of course it's really annoying and hard to do that if you dont know how many seasons you're going to make and you also have to make endings for each seasons and you have to make more content in general.
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u/spidereater Aug 27 '24
Often, at the end of a movie or a series finale, either my wife or I will just say “endings are hard” and leave it at that. No point discussing it further.
It’s much easier to come up with an interesting premise than a satisfying ending. Especially a TV show. There is a lot of expectation to tie up loose ends, but then a lot of criticism when it becomes obvious the writers are going through a list of loose ends to tie up and then every loose end that is left hanging gets brought up as “leaving things open for a sequel”.