2) -- when it's time for an ending, do not fuck up the ending. Ultimately Ciel has to die.
That's just the thing. If they make this season two, and they DO contradict the ending to season one, they'll have just royally fucked things up. In a worse way, I think, than if they'd just given us a cop-out to begin with. (If they'd have just given us a cop-out to begin with, and then offered up a season two, I'd be all "Oh. They planned ahead. There will be more. Maybe THIS time..." But as it is, they're doing what I HATE MOST OF ALL-- ruining an already completed series by ripping off the "the end" and continuing it because it's popular.)
And yes, we'll have still had the emotional impact of the end of season one. But it won't mean much of anything now, will it? Because it was a lie. ( "Young Master, I'm not allowed to eat your soul until our ratings drop... So are you up for some more jolly ol' shouta-flavored adventures in Victorian England?" *holds up corset*) It will have cheapened all of the emotional intensity of that last scene... It will have cheapened everything the storytellers/characters/etc. worked for and succeeded in giving us, emotion-wise.
I dunno. If they make this a pre-season one season two, or even a in-the-middle-of-season-one season two, I will forgive them. But until they make that very obvious, I am going to be cranky and pissy about this, because the best thing for some series is to just LET IT GO. And unfortunately, very rarely does that actually happen. Stupid fans and their STUPID NOT GETTING IT.
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Date: 2009-06-15 03:23 pm (UTC)That's just the thing. If they make this season two, and they DO contradict the ending to season one, they'll have just royally fucked things up. In a worse way, I think, than if they'd just given us a cop-out to begin with. (If they'd have just given us a cop-out to begin with, and then offered up a season two, I'd be all "Oh. They planned ahead. There will be more. Maybe THIS time..." But as it is, they're doing what I HATE MOST OF ALL-- ruining an already completed series by ripping off the "the end" and continuing it because it's popular.)
And yes, we'll have still had the emotional impact of the end of season one. But it won't mean much of anything now, will it? Because it was a lie. (
"Young Master, I'm not allowed to eat your soul until our ratings drop... So are you up for some more jolly ol' shouta-flavored adventures in Victorian England?" *holds up corset*) It will have cheapened all of the emotional intensity of that last scene... It will have cheapened everything the storytellers/characters/etc. worked for and succeeded in giving us, emotion-wise.I dunno. If they make this a pre-season one season two, or even a in-the-middle-of-season-one season two, I will forgive them. But until they make that very obvious, I am going to be cranky and pissy about this, because the best thing for some series is to just LET IT GO. And unfortunately, very rarely does that actually happen.
Stupid fans and their STUPID NOT GETTING IT.