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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Endings are problematical for me.

On one hand, I like a sense of closure, but I also want to retain the possibility of revisiting the world.

Frex, the finale for Deep Space Nine ("The Things You Leave Behind") is my idea of a perfect series finale. It wrapped up the Dominion War, resolved most of the big character arcs, and ended this chapter in the lives of pretty much everyone. But, the Station is still there. Kira's in charge. Cardassia is in need of rebuilding. The Dominion's gonna go through some social revolutions. Worf is stuck playing diplomat. . .

There're more stories to be told; and the novel series that continues past the finale (DS9: Avatar onward) is as close to a series of DS9 movies as I'll need. Unlike the novels that co-exist with the TV show, these ones are under no obligation to keep things static. Folks die, return, change, and evolve. Worf returns to the Enterprise (as seen in Nemesis), O'Brien isn't on Earth anymore, we've visited Andorr and found it completely different from Shran's homeworld in Enterprise.

The Voyager finale, OTOH, ended with the sound of a guillotine. Christie Golden had to spend much of her "reboot" novel (Homecoming) undoing the events of the finale.

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Originally posted by Grounded:
The Quantum Leap ending was beautiful :)

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Originally posted by msckaren:
Yes, I want it all. I want a sense of completeness/conslusion when the ending credits start to roll but I like to be able to wonder what our surviving heros, heroines and villians will be up to next.

I'm also cool with ambiguous endings, e.g., my exhusband thought Total Recall had a happy ending. When I told him that Arnie was lost in a dream, he got mad at me. Probably a clue there about OUR ending...

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"Appears they've canceled the show and we're still here. What does that make us?"
"Big damn junkies, Sir!"
"Ain't we just."

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Originally posted by msckaren:
I'm also cool with ambiguous endings, e.g., my exhusband thought Total Recall had a happy ending. When I told him that Arnie was lost in a dream, he got mad at me. Probably a clue there about OUR ending...

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One of the things I liked about the Recall ending was that it was purposefully (I thought) ambiguous. He might have been in an artificial reality... or it might have been real. And the fact that you are left to make your own conclusions was grand to me.

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