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[coldlogic82]

This is now the official post that explains to people how you can both understand an ending and not like an ending.

Look, I understand the ending.  I understand the cycle, I understand the geth, I understand the fleet, I understand the reapers, I understand the "message."  However, this does not mean I like it, or think it is appropriate.  Even if I was absolutely reeling at how deep and amazing the ending was, I could still not like it.  I understand calculus.  I made an A in calculus.  If someone needed me to expalin calculus to them, I could do it.  I understand that calculus is a mathematical representation of applied physics in the universe.  I think physics are amazing, and the implications of some calculus equations are deep, marvelous, and awe inspiring.  I STILL HATE CALCULUS.  Also I took Calculus a long time ago, and no, I'm not an emo teenager posting.  This example just happens to work for me.

It's not a matter of "I don't like sad endings."  I'm a fan of the horror genre, H. P. Lovecraft in particular.  His stories do not have happy endings, and I love them.  I love Russian literature.  Have you ever read Crime and Punishment?  I love that book.  I loved the ending.  I think Old Yeller is a good movie, and that is NOT a happy ending.  I'm okay with sad endings.  Just because an ending is sad doesn't mean I won't like it.  However, I can think a certain type of sad ending is inappropriate to a story.  I can think a happy ending is stupid and cheap.  I can think a happy ending is appropriate to a story.  Just because the ending isn't happy doesn't mean I will be, and just because someone is so goth they s**t bats does not mean I will think they are deep.  Story structure, plot elements, plot devices, and other things on which we can objectively rate the merit of narrative are independent of whether an ending is one that has been "gotten."  Hell, you can have a deep, though provoking ending, but if it doesn't make sense in an objective narrative case, there are people who aren't going to like it.

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AND THIS IS THE REALLY IMPORTANT PART

Two people can look at the same thing and have the same level of understanding and have completely different emotional reactions.  Emotions are personal responses based on external stimuli in conjunction with how one interprets those stimuli in both past and present context.  How we handle emotions is one thing, but the basic emotional reaction to anything isn't "wrong."  An emotion can be inappropriate to a situation because the emoter doesn't fully understand the present context, but that doesn't invalidate the emotion.

Post note on intelligence:
Yeah, I do think most people are stupid.  However, I have lots of smart friends that didn't like Crime and Punishment.  I didn't like Space Odyssey.  They aren't stupid, I'm not stupid.  Well, I may be stupid, but no one really has enough information about me to make that call on these forums beyond the content of my posts, but "you're stupid" is never a good argument, because even if I was stupid, I could still, by some miracle, fully understand a deep intellectual ending.  Stupid people are not wrong about everything all the time.  So, I'm pretty sure a lot of smart people didn't like the ending.  But even if everyone who didn't like the ending IS stupid, they could still understand the ending and have better objective grounds on which to support their dislike.

[Stanley Woo]

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