Wishing for happy endings
This week's fannish5 is right up my alley, so I'll answer it.
5 characters or couples you wish could have gotten a happy/happier ending.
Doctor/Rose (Doctor Who)
Even people who are satisfied with the end we got have to admit it isn’t the happiest ending possible (I suppose you don’t have to, but I know a lot do). For some of my f-list the end we got was enough, for me it was...not.
I’m still not okay with the way it ended, and every time I think I might have reached a level of zen about it something comes along and sets me off again. I don’t think I ever will fully accept it, because I wanted them to get a real happy ending. I love this couple too much to be satisfied with a half effective implied happy ending, I want my OTP to get to have the life they want.
Guy/Marian (Robin Hood)
It doesn’t get much worse than their ending, so of course I want them to have a better one. I’m not even sure I need to say much on the subject, because why I want them to have a different end should be obvious.
Gene/Alex (Ashes to Ashes)
I don’t hate the ending they got, and I can certainly live with the idea that one day Gene will join Alex and the others in the Pub and there will be afterlife parties so I’m willing to be chill with the end the show gave us. But that doesn’t mean I don’t *wish* Alex and Gene had gotten to actually be together, have more than a goodbye kiss, etc. It’s a tragedy they didn’t get that but it’s not exactly surprising either.
Susan/Marcus (Babylon 5)
I considered using John/Delenn, but they at least had 20 good years together; Susan and Marcus never even got started, and I wanted them to. Again there’s not a lot to say on the subject, it’s just sad the way it ended and I wish they could have had a happier ending, or happy at al for that matter.
Lee/Kara (Battlestar Galactica)
I debated between them and Adama/Roslin, but I’m going with the pilots. Partly because the show jerked them around so much and I wanted them to actually work out in the end. Only for the end to not only be unsatisfying but confusing. Partly because I rooted for them longer. And partly because by the end of the show I’d lost most of my interest in A/R mostly because I was so very mad at Bill (of at least the way the writers presented him) the half the last season or so. So yeah, I thought the pilot pair deserved better.
5 characters or couples you wish could have gotten a happy/happier ending.
Doctor/Rose (Doctor Who)
Even people who are satisfied with the end we got have to admit it isn’t the happiest ending possible (I suppose you don’t have to, but I know a lot do). For some of my f-list the end we got was enough, for me it was...not.
I’m still not okay with the way it ended, and every time I think I might have reached a level of zen about it something comes along and sets me off again. I don’t think I ever will fully accept it, because I wanted them to get a real happy ending. I love this couple too much to be satisfied with a half effective implied happy ending, I want my OTP to get to have the life they want.
Guy/Marian (Robin Hood)
It doesn’t get much worse than their ending, so of course I want them to have a better one. I’m not even sure I need to say much on the subject, because why I want them to have a different end should be obvious.
Gene/Alex (Ashes to Ashes)
I don’t hate the ending they got, and I can certainly live with the idea that one day Gene will join Alex and the others in the Pub and there will be afterlife parties so I’m willing to be chill with the end the show gave us. But that doesn’t mean I don’t *wish* Alex and Gene had gotten to actually be together, have more than a goodbye kiss, etc. It’s a tragedy they didn’t get that but it’s not exactly surprising either.
Susan/Marcus (Babylon 5)
I considered using John/Delenn, but they at least had 20 good years together; Susan and Marcus never even got started, and I wanted them to. Again there’s not a lot to say on the subject, it’s just sad the way it ended and I wish they could have had a happier ending, or happy at al for that matter.
Lee/Kara (Battlestar Galactica)
I debated between them and Adama/Roslin, but I’m going with the pilots. Partly because the show jerked them around so much and I wanted them to actually work out in the end. Only for the end to not only be unsatisfying but confusing. Partly because I rooted for them longer. And partly because by the end of the show I’d lost most of my interest in A/R mostly because I was so very mad at Bill (of at least the way the writers presented him) the half the last season or so. So yeah, I thought the pilot pair deserved better.