Good evening everybody! This is Aifos coming to you alive from a little town in the middle of nowhere called Bismuth! I would say it’s lovely, but frankly it’s something of a wreck!
But anyway, I’ve got a question for you! It can be from books, movies, games, whatever, but what is your opinion on timeskip endings?
A timeskip ending, for those unaware, is when the final chapter/epilogue/etc. jumps a significant amount of time into the future—for example, let’s say a year—after the conflict has been resolved, showing how things have gone since then and whatnot.
Be as in depth as you can please; what do you like/dislike about them? If your opinion on them differs between different mediums, please elaborate. So on, so forth.
[b][u]Tl;dr? Here’s my point![/u][/b]
What do you think of timeskip endings in books and whatnot? If you don’t know what that is, please read above.
Thank you for your input in advance! Jambuhbye!
-
11 RepliesI enjoy knowing what happens to characters in the future, but as long as the timeskip doesn’t really affect the mood of the resolve. Most skips I’ve seen in fiction appear abrupt, empty, or very drawn-out, so the emotion I had for the ending was cut short. The best significant timeskips I’ve seen are the short ones that don’t interrupt the resolve and leave the audience satisfied in some way, even if it isn’t happy. However, I tend to prefer endings that leave us with good assumptions of what happens in the future, like in the LotR movies where we can guess that Sam lives happily with his wife and Bilbo and Frodo are at peace in the Undying Lands.