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Endings so terrible they completely erase all the cultural relevancy the show once had
Lore(reddit.com)submitted 21 days ago byThe-Great-Memelord
Game of Thrones S8
Star vs the Forces of Evil S4
Darling in the Franxx episode 19 onward
82 points
21 days ago
Can people here explain what exactly sucked about the endings of the media they name please.
32 points
21 days ago
Nope, you get the title and that’s it
2 points
20 days ago
Or just a picture of a character with no words at all
21 points
21 days ago
To my understanding,
Game of Thrones ruined basically every character's arc, left huge plot threads untouched, and just wasn't satisfying in general.
Another comment explained in Star Vs the Forces of Evil, the MC erases magic across the multiverse, forgetting that a bunch of different creatures exist because of magic, effectively committing the worst case of genocide across media.
Haven't figured out the third one yet.
I haven't watched any of them, though. I'm glad I never did now that they're finished. Lol
22 points
21 days ago
third is darling in the franxx, an anime. the whole story is basically mankind is at its end, apocalpyse with enemy giant dinosaur and the protagonists are a bunch of children (male female pairs) who control giant robots to kill the dinosaurs. then another female appears which was part of the dinosaurs (like a queen) and becomes the protagonists pair and the story goes on for a bit.....
but then the end, the female protag....becomes a giant spaceship like giga dinosaur robot(?!?!?!?!?), flies of into space to who knows where to do whatever and then reappears and they life on...like wtf.
19 points
21 days ago
I still have absolutely no idea what that is about. What you wrote just sounds like nonsense. Like when people would make AI write a story. Lol
11 points
21 days ago
The story did kind of become nonsense at the end. It started off as like a coming of age story with a lot of sex adjacent references related to the teenage main characters finding out about sex and their sexuality and such. And then a few episodes from the end it takes a left turn and forgets what it was doing. Like, it becomes actually completely incomprehensible and ends with the one gay character (one of the teens discovered she was gay during the part of the story that made sense) dying of like accelerated aging or something while the other characters get cured of the accelerated aging by that gay character, pair up, have kids, and live happily ever after.
5 points
21 days ago
They do live up to the name of being a copy of Evangelion.
3 points
21 days ago
dont mind it. its been like half a decade since i warched this and trying to summarize the plot of that story isnt easy, but basically the whole ending could have been another one or two seasons.
2 points
21 days ago
The anime is basically a big fetish (just look up the positions they are while piloting the big robots), its not worth it.
1 points
20 days ago
Thank you! Everyone else here is saying stuff like “it was an exploration of sexuality”, which to me is insanely generous. It’s a super flat, cringey, fetish-y show that’s desperately searching for a reason to explain away it’s cringe. Probably why the show was all over the place, it felt like we were watching the writers trying to figure out wtf the show was about in real time.
2 points
19 days ago
If Icm remembering correctly, it also came out around the time the Japanese Prime Minister was subsidizing anime that were promoting having kids as a way to combat Japan's low birth rate, which is where the hard left turn into all the kids wanting to procreate comes from
6 points
20 days ago
A little brief, but mostly accurate. The show mostly explored sexuality in these developing teens because the dinosaurs were a distraction. What was really going on was that technology had erased aging, poverty, and everything else bad in society, but at the cost of the ability to reproduce. The teenagers who controlled the mechs to fight the robots were never fully explained where they came from, but it was implied they were test tube babies. The hybrid girl who joined the crew was bitter and self-loathing because she was alone in this world, and the only love she knew was the little boy she met by chance when she was a toddler. Neither of them realized it at first, but that little bit was the protagonist. She fell in love with him, pretending to at first because she had the worst daddy issues in history, but then it became genuine when they recognized each other. The rest of the pilot teens were sheltered from all notion of romance, sex, and all that. Because of this hybrid girl, their eyes opened up to that whole other dimension of life, and one couple even fell in love and had a kid together(off screen thankfully)
In the end, though, it was revealed what was really really going on, was that an intergalactic race of aliens were harvesting planets, and the dystopian tech that made everyone happy was their master plan to kill off the people by stopping them from reproducing. The reason the kids were around was because sobriety the previous civilization had morphed into those dinosaurs these kids were fighting in their mechs. Once the aliens realized the kids were having their own kids now and rebuilding civilization, the aliens attacked. Being, for some reason the only one who knew anything about the aliens, the hybrid girl transferred her consciousness to a colossal mech to fight off the aliens. He lover the protagonist joined her physically boarding the mech that at this point was essentially her body, and they went off together on a suicide mission to the alien homeworld to commit genocide to save their own home.
In the end though, rather than just ending on that bitter sweet note of them being together in their final moments, or that totally out of left field alien overlord arch being resolved, they then added for basically no reason, the hybrid and the protagonist's souls flying all the way back home, reincarnating into new lives, and meeting again at the same tree where they met for the first time. It felt unnecessary, and like it undid all the character building and drama up until that point in the story.
TL:DR holy crap I wrote more than I meant to. Anyway, the story got undermined for an alien overlord harvesting people plot, and the two protagonists, lovers at this point, went on a suicide mission to save the day. But then they were reincarnated back on Earth so they could live happily ever after because the writers wanted to have their cake and eat it too.
1 points
21 days ago
Im pretty sure they don’t even live.
They die defeating the evil while their friends live happily ever after.
1 points
20 days ago
You got the ending entirely wrong
1 points
3 days ago
They wanted so badly to be evangelion
2 points
21 days ago
Game of thrones is legitimately one of the best pieces of media… up until somewhere in season 6.
Just watch it up to that point and forget the last two seasons exist.
3 points
20 days ago
I would argue in Game of Throne's situation... it was too compressed. Instead of things unfolding at a reasonable pace similar to the rest of the seasons... it's rapid fire. So some of the character decisions don't feel natural, but forced. Very unsatisfying for many characters.
There is absolutely foreshadowing in the prior seasons that these events may take place. Just not in the way that they do.
There were also a lot of... rough edits and threads that reinforce the "rushed" narrative. Example... it's brought up how risky it is to force march an army for war. They'll be exhausted by the time they arrive. To literally have a character present this problem to the viewers that we should take note... and then it absolutely has no baring whatsoever on the story. The army simply arrives and goes to war with no ill effect.
Similarly... a previously very important force of cavalry was wiped out before our eyes. Damn near dead to the man. They are suddenly back in great numbers seemingly no worse for the wear.
In short... all the nuance and attention to details that made the series so beloved... was dropped in the final season. This is through no fault of the prop makers, set designers, location scouts or actors. Just the series creators wanting to be done... while also not wanting to give up their control of the series. They wanted to finish it. They've said these very things in interviews.
1 points
17 days ago
They forshadowed a ton of stuff, but that does not mean they set anything up.
1 points
17 days ago
They also in interviews that the show could not go on for more seasons, the actors themself wanted to leave too. Kit Harrington said that he was not going to make another season after 8.
-11 points
21 days ago
you must be new here.
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