I don't agree at all, I think people (well, me) watch soaps for the continuing drama, and it doesn't make sense to want an ending.

But, the "continuing drama" is ending. Personally, I don't think "tied up in neat little bows" and "resolutions" are the same thing. I think audiences deserve some kind of satisfying payoff---to see justice served, beloved characters headed to happiness, and life carrying on in spite of the fact we won't see it.

I hate endings like Capitol's, that ended on Conboy's tantrum-filled fit. The audience didn't deserve that, even if he wanted to say (and deserved to) "screw you" to the suits that cancelled him.

I understand that endings like GL's and ATWT's are double-edged swords. I thought GL's entire last week was contrived to the point of saccarhine sweetness, and I wish ATWT had had the balls to send Craig to jail or play out Katie's grief instead of hooking her up with her next random battery operated sex toy....but I do think there's a hopefulness to them that is unique to television and part of the reason serials become as personal to viewers as they do.

dragonflies if it feels like the main thrust of a show ending is everyone needs to be matched and have babies unless they are already grandparents...that's what GL felt like to me (as everyone in Springfield other than Jonathan were given a love interest). I found it annoying and sexist like Shayne and Marina had to be a couple because they had a kid. They had months to work on wrapping things, but a lot of it was resolved in the last week. ATWT was somewhat similar though less bad. AMC I didn't feel like it felt like everyone was matched just to be matched as it was done more slowly (and they had the late edits to deal with too)...AW had a short time to wrap so I give them more leeway in content. What happened with Port Charles stank...and I gave up that show years before it ended.

With AMC, all the end pairings were already together prior to cancellation except maybe Tad and Dixie, whom were thrown together simply to give themselves a nice cancellatioin resolution. Even with Zach/Kendall, she was always talking about him and had never let him go, so it was very concievable that she'd end up with him. Thats probably why overall it didnt feel forced

Edited December 27, 201113 yr by Cheap21