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user-inactivated  ·  4279 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: THE RESTAURANT AT THE START OF THE UNIVERSE (7/7): The bed and breakfast, 2115AD

Predictable ending but that isn't a bad thing! The main issue I had with all seven was suspending my disbelief that we'll find the singularity as a species in under a hundred years. But every story is famously allowed one suspension, and if that was it, no complaints.





kleinbl00  ·  4278 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The rule of thumb is that you want your endings to be unpredictable but inevitable. Considering I stole the whole thing from Haldeman's Forever War it is what it is. ;-)

blackbootz  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The rule of thumb is that you want your endings to be unpredictable but inevitable.

What's the difference between unpredictable and inevitable endings? I know you wrote this 165 days ago.. but I feel the terms are interchangeable. What shade of difference between the two were you hinting at?

kleinbl00  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So you seen Sixth Sense? We'll presume you have. It's extremely.fucking.obvious that Bruce Willis is dead. Yet when you first start watching it the first time it's the furthest thing from your mind. It is unpredictable, but also inevitable.

Toy Story 1 is inevitable - the toys are going to end up back with Andy. Toy Story 2 is inevitable - the girl cowboy is going to end up with Andy's sister. Toy Story 3 is unpredictable but inevitable.

Make sense?

blackbootz  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OK. The Sixth Sense seems like the perfect example, I get the difference I think.