Obligitory Animes Thread

[JDub]

Yet none of your analogy's work for this, at all.

These single moments of the show took place at a different moment than the vast majority. Literally not changing how good what you previously watched was.

The icing is ALL OVER the cake, it's all in the same bite. That doesn't work.
The house and color are present at the same time.
The chick and her teeth are in your eyesockets at the same time.

This beautiful house wasn't as beautiful because the paint was always there. You can WISH the color was different and maybe it would fix that, but it didn't and it is as it is.
Yet It's as nice as it's collective whole.

Just as it is as a series. Your FINALE can suck, your "insert scene here" can suck. But it's rated via a collective. And if all episodes prior were good, than the end doesn't ruin the SERIES. Just the END. Vice-versa and etc....

You obviously have way more forgiveness than I do. For me, the product as a whole can be tainted. Then, it's just a shame that something with so much potential ended up taking a dump all over it's viewers. I disregard the whole series for leading up to disappointment.

 

[Animefreak6969]

You obviously have way more forgiveness than I do. For me, the product as a whole can be tainted. Then, it's just a shame that something with so much potential ended up taking a dump all over it's viewers. I disregard the whole series for leading up to disappointment.

Which is sad

It's about the journey, not the destination.

 

[OneManjiArmy]

I just finished Speed Grapher.

I was satisfied.

 

[Ghengis_John]

Which is sad

It's about the journey, not the destination.

I find it sad that the concept of the narrative arc is completely lost on you.

If you want to start getting all quasi mystical, the arrival is no less a part of the journey. It's why the journey is begun in the first place.

But it's rated via a collective. And if all episodes prior were good, than the end doesn't ruin the SERIES. Just the END. Vice-versa and etc....

Yes and no. Where we are going is important, the ending perhaps is the most important part of any story, because it is the story teller's last interaction with the audience. The lasting impression, the emparted moral, the conclusion of loose ends, the resolution of conflicts, this is the time to attend to such things and they should all be attended to in an order that seems a natural progression of the narrative from what came before.

If we truly are rating a story collectively then we can't so casually dismiss the ending. It puts everything that came before into context and is supposed to obey the rules that we have established prior to that point. To say it doesn't matter how bad an ending is isn't rating collectively, it's rating selectively. You are discounting what you don't like as opposed to taking the story in as a whole.

As a personal aside, It is very odd to me that you separate the end of a story from the rest of the story as two district and non related entities. There seems to be a fundamental device between people that do and people that don't.

 

[Animefreak6969]

I find it sad that the concept of the narrative arc is completely lost on you.

If you want to start getting all quasi mystical, the arrival is no less a part of the journey. It's why the journey is begun in the first place.



Yes and no. Where we are going is important, the ending perhaps is the most important part of any story, because it is the story teller's last interaction with the audience. The lasting impression, the emparted moral, the conclusion of loose ends, the resolution of conflicts, this is the time to attend to such things and they should all be attended to in an order that seems a natural progression of the narrative from what came before.

If we truly are rating a story collectively then we can't so casually dismiss the ending. It puts everything that came before into context and is supposed to obey the rules that we have established prior to that point. To say it doesn't matter how bad an ending is isn't rating collectively, it's rating selectively. You are discounting what you don't like as opposed to taking the story in as a whole.

As a personal aside, It is very odd to me that you separate the end of a story from the rest of the story as two district and non related entities. There seems to be a fundamental device between people that do and people that don't.

No bro you're hung up on the specifics of my examples. My examples given were the easiest, and most common, versions of what i'm trying to say.
My direct response was to somebody stating an ending can ruin a series, so is tuck with that choice.

Every episode/scene is it's own thing. All are rated on their own accord, as they were in their section of the series. Only judging the most current with the fact it followed the direct result of the previous and how it worked given the flow/story/whatever.
BUT at no point does the most current situation and how it feels ruin how good or bad the previous moments were because it didn't have any effect on it. If it was good, then it was good.
If an entire fight was good, but the end result wasn't to my liking, the outcome is what sucked, not the fight.

an be said about most things that flow or moves through time.