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!
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3 RepliesEdited by Cultmeister: 9/12/2021 8:23:26 AMDepends entirely on the story and how it's handled. I really hate the ones (seen a lot in lower-budget films and TV) where it's used to tell the actual climax of the story, like via flashbacks and stuff. It feels really cheap because i've been asked to spend however much time investing emotionally in the characters and then i don't even get to see the climax in real time. But as an epilogue in a book i actually kind of expect it. My brain is wired to think of fiction books to automatically have prologues and/or epilogues and i like they way a timeskip rounds out the story; they normally work better in books i think anyway because the format of chapters makes the break between times feel not so abrupt, in visual media the transition has to be explicit else people will get confused, but that can also make it feel out of place and separate from the rest of the plot. I feel like they need to be short though. Ideally all of the loose ends are already tied up , this is just something to say farewell to the characters or possibly introduce a teaser for the sequel. If it's too long you might as well just continue the story for another few chapters yeah?