Tragic endings are far more memorable than happy ones

Tragic endings are far more memorable than happy ones.

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Both have their uses in fiction. A tragic ending be mishandled and made into a edgy shaggy dog story where the entire adventure feels pointless and a happy one can feel cheap if it's not well-earned.

There are plenty of memorable happy endings as there are tragic ones. It's about how you use them. And sometimes, seeing the characters you love so much win at the end after so many sacrifices is very satisfying.

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Shocking endings are indeed most memorable but best endings are neutral and bittersweet like real life, a blend of both

If I don't care about the characters, then the ending doesn't matter, regardless of whether it's happy or sad.
If the writing doesn't convince me, then a sad ending is just going to look dumb. I'm going to reject it.
If the writing does convince me, then the happy ending will have a heavy impact because I can believe that the protagonist won against the odds and managed to avoid the tragic ending.

Making the ending tragic just for the sake of drama doesn't work, unless the audience is already on board for it and is just looking for some tear duct porn.

I am not saying happy ending don't feel earned or satisfying. But they aren't as memorable as tragic ones. They don't stick with you for a long period of time.

Tragic endings are far more memorable because it doesnt have sense of closure, i make you want more so it could be finish to find the happy ending
Happy end for when you want to done with this shit

Finally, someone who actually has an idea on how endings work.

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Uh, no. There is nothing stating that a tragic ending is memorable. A shit tragic ending is probably just gonna piss off people as stated before, just as a shitty happy ending can feel completely out of place and piss off everyone just like a bad tragic one.

None of them are more memorable than the other, it's all about how one works towards the ending and works with the ending itself.

a bittersweet ending is the most powerful

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breaking your leg is more memorable than eating ice cream.
and still, I'd rather eat ice cream for some reason.
also I always forget about P&S's final scene.

What if the writer spoils you about the tragic ending at the beginning(prologue) of the story, you know where the journey ends and still get gut punched hard enough to feel what the author wants you to at the end? Even if the prologue and the ending isn't a major part of the story but something who's presence can be felt throughout it? That's not an easy thing to achieve for any writer.

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That isn't limited to tragic endings, that can be done with literally any kind of twist.

And honestly if the author tells you how the story will end can't complain if you don't care at the end. And honestly, i wouldn't.

>What if the writer spoils you about the tragic ending
There are many stories that are officially tragedies. They work if they are well written.

>the ending isn't a major part of the story
Nonsense. The ending is one of the most important parts of the story.

But that's hard to do for a tragic ending. You need to make the reader invested enough in the characters to keep reading knowing it won't end well. That's the hardest part, not only aren't you spoiling the end for which most of the readers would read your story but you are already making clear that it won't end good at the very beginning.

no
cold indifference ending is best ending

> Nonsense. The ending is one of the most important parts of the story.

Tell that to Franz Kafka. Practically anything he wrote was tragedy but almost none of his novels had an ending.

The journey is more important than the destination, after all.

Phantom blood, Stardust crusaders and Vento Aureo endings felt more memorable than Battle Tendency, and Diamond is Unbreakable.
So you're right.

>The ending is one of the most important parts of the story.
I didn't say the ending isn't important but rather it not being a major part of the story. Which was the case in KnS2. The prologue and ending resolve the story kept open from the first installment and it's not the major part of the main story of the sequel.

I can't think of any tragic endings off the top of my head, so they can't be that memorable.

good journey + shit ending = shit story
mediocre journey + good ending = masterpiece
they didn't teach you this in art school you flamboyant faggot ?

A story without an ending is like sex if the other girl up and leaves just as you were about to climax.

That is hard to do with any kind of ending because the moment you spoil it your viewers won't feel much of an impact or surprise.

Which is why you shouldn't do that, because meaningful drama is the soul of a history and if the viewers already know that it won't end well why the hell would you bother to read something?

Thematically fitting endings are the best. Whether they're tragic or happy depends on how it suits the story the author is telling and the ideas that they are expressing.

But that's all sex for girls

You put too much importance on this foreknowledge. The experience of the journey is far more than just a few keypoints, unless the writing is garbage.

Surprise is usually a very small part of the emotional impact of a story.

No, and you should tell your girlfriend that she is a shit.

> good journey + shit ending = shit story
> mediocre journey + good ending = masterpiece

If the last 5 minutes of something are the most important things in a series for you them you are either a retard or unironically stupid.

If you remove the last 5 minutes of Monster would it change how fantastic the rest of the work was? No.

We watch things to have fun. If we had fun while the events happened, that's all that matters. How it ends is important, but less than the content that makes a work itself.