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[Foryou]

Everyone it seems is complaining about the cliffhanger but didn't Origins also end with a cliffhanger in the epilogue and so did awakings

[David Gaider]

Maria Caliban wrote...
No.

A story has a question that it needs to answer by the end. The question for Origins was "Will the Warden defeat the Blight?"

We got the answer to that question in Origins, so the story finished. That things happen after the story finishes doesn't matter.

After Robin Hood overthrows the evil Prince, stuff still happens, but it doesn't matter for that story. After Luke blows up the Death Star, stuff still happens, but it doesn't matter for that story.

Lord of the Rings could end when the ring goes into the volcano. It has a very long denouncement but the story question has been satisfied.

Indeed. There's lots of criticisms one can make about the ending (and I've seen many)-- not having enough closure to be satisfying might be one, depending on how you feel about it, but there were people who said the same thing about Origins even before Awakening came out. The hero "walking off into the sunset" was insufficient, to them. Some people are always going to be unhappy when they want the story to continue on, particularly if they were drawn into it.

Which is fine. I'd argue that not every story ends with every plot thread neatly resolved, or even necessarily any. As you point out, the story poses a question which must be answered by the end. A lack of desired closure, however, is not a cliffhanger-- the lack of a climax would be.

It's one of those terms that gets misused, on the internet in particular, much like "cliche" (which seems to boil down to "I've seen this once before" mingled with "I don't like it") or "plot hole" ("I didn't get it" mingled with "I didn't like it"). That said, I understand the origin of the complaint, if not the conclusion drawn. From my perspective, I don't think people wanting to know what happens next is necessarily a bad thing, but I do indeed get some people not liking where it was left off. Food for thought.