What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy? - eviltoast

Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?

Logan’s Run. The city dwellers are freed from the computer’s iron-fisted rule, and Carrousel. But their city is in ruins, and thinks to the computer providing everything. They don’t know how to live without it. The city dwellers are going to start dying off real fast.

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    It’s a beast to wrap up and hit all those notes and do it before the heat death of the universe. That’s why we haven’t gotten a book in a decade, and likely never will again.

    The hubris to think you can do it in eight episodes of television? Unimaginable.

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      1 year ago

      The hubris to think you can do it in eight episodes of television? Unimaginable.

      Yea I heard that was the crazy plan… then D&d said, we can do it in 6, cuz we gotta hurry up and get over to this little project called star wars