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We Americans like closure. No we need closure.
The Brits have no such hang-ups. They demonstrate almost limitless patience (which explains cricket) when it comes to the rather touchy issue of resolution. We Yanks, however, do not want froufrou endings. We want things definitively tied up.
And by things I mean lots of people dead. And by definitively tied up I mean in excruciating ways that ideally involve lots of gratuitous explosions.
We really like gratuitous explosions. And we like it when characters have pithy catchphrases as the embers rain down on them in slow motion. Like, You should quit smoking, McCorkle.
Over here at the TV show Lost, weve announced our grand finale 48 short episodes from now. Shockingly, the pundits have already announced that they pre-hate it. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that our ending will be either too wacky to make sense or too anticlimactic to have justified the six seasons preceding it.
I am thrilled by this assessment as there is almost certainly nowhere to go but up.
Quote:
We Americans like closure. No we need closure.
The Brits have no such hang-ups. They demonstrate almost limitless patience (which explains cricket) when it comes to the rather touchy issue of resolution. We Yanks, however, do not want froufrou endings. We want things definitively tied up.
And by things I mean lots of people dead. And by definitively tied up I mean in excruciating ways that ideally involve lots of gratuitous explosions.
We really like gratuitous explosions. And we like it when characters have pithy catchphrases as the embers rain down on them in slow motion. Like, You should quit smoking, McCorkle.
Over here at the TV show Lost, weve announced our grand finale 48 short episodes from now. Shockingly, the pundits have already announced that they pre-hate it. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that our ending will be either too wacky to make sense or too anticlimactic to have justified the six seasons preceding it.
I am thrilled by this assessment as there is almost certainly nowhere to go but up.