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What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thinking back on that series, I'm still kind of amazed at what we witnessed with S8. Not the season itself, obviously, but the phenomenon of it.

GoT was a huge fandom. Everybody was talking about it, for years. People were fuckin' naming their kids after those characters.

And then S8 happened and the whole thing was just gone. That entire enormous fandom erased more or less overnight. A moment of confused outage and then... silence.

I've never seen or heard of anything like it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well they went off piste! Until then they had been in or close to the track that George RR Martin had laid out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It's called ...ahem... subverting expectations.