For example, the end of the Expanse series >!Naomi and Amos seperate from Alex who goes to find his son and family. This didn’t really sit that well with me, as why wouldn’t they just go with him? They return to Sol where Naomi has… nothing left. Alex and the Roci are her family and home. So, the thing I would tweak is having Holden, just before he dies, tell her that while he had all of humanity connected together he noticed Filip alive and well in Sol. Then there is a logical reason for them to split up, to find their respective sons.!<

What’s your example of this?

  • TheChocolateMelted@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson >!has the rapist/murderer psychopath villain antagonist being chased by the protagonists. At which point the antogonist (deliberately) crashes his car and dies.!<

    As a reader, there’s less satisfaction in this than pretty much any other options. In the US film version, it’s incredibly anti-climactic. I’ve always found it an odd choice.

  • TaliesinMerlin@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt has an uncontrollable sharting problem and must keep his speech very short.

  • stella3books@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In “The Dark Forrest” I legitimately thought the guy’s secret plan was going to be to >!teach everyone how to make psychic waifus like him, so that we all happily die out in a generation, before the aliens arrive!<. I was not correct.

  • YakSlothLemon@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Two romantic pairings that should have happened, in Ivanhoe and The Deerslayer.

    In Ivanhoe, >!he should end up with brave, intrepid Rebecca instead of the soggy but oh-so-blonde Rowena. I realize this would mean Ivanhoe would have to convert to Judaism. I have no issue with that!<

    The Deerslayer has an ending so miserable that the final four pages actually changed how I felt about the character and I finished it really despising him. And I didn’t think much of the author either. >!Judith, who’s been intrepid and courageous and is actually tried to rescue him repeatedly, proposes to him only to have him snottily turned her down because someone once told him a rumor that she might’ve kiss someone. Slut! Not good enough for ourbchaste hero. Anyway, later he hears that she dated a soldier, so he knows he did the right thing. What a pathetic prude!< It’s why I never read Last of the Mohicans. If Judith had been the main character, I would’ve read it.

  • fediverser@alien.topEnglish
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    11 months ago

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