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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1 ReplyIt really depends Sometimes it's necessary because the characters have temporarily gone their separate ways and since nothing is happening, let's skip to where these two characters meet up again and maybe recap to see if others are in a good future or whatever [spoiler] - often times these also end with an ambiguous happy ending. It's dumb. Like those "he woke up from the dream and then years later, person that looks like (character) appears in front of him! The end." Like, there's not gonna be a sequel so why do that? It feels lazy. [/spoiler] Other times it's like "I'd rather have seen what you skipped than what you're writing" -- I personally prefer the ones that [i]don't skip[/i], and instead include an interesting in between, so the ending is much more fulfilling. [spoiler]E.g. ItaKiss, that show surprisingly went the long run and didn't skip from confession to happy family with a kid. It showed the entire in between and made it interesting. Which was a nice first. good show.[/spoiler]