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[timepiececlock]

Why is it that, on most of the shows I watch, the ending is a sad one for my romantic pairing of choice?

Seriously.: Escaflowne. CB. Buffy. Moulin Rouge. Lord of the Rings (I'm an Aragorn/Eowyn fan). Farscape. Donnie Darko. Even Mulder & Scully, though together, were plagued by the loss of their child and the doom of mankind.

You know that thing that all the best love stories end in tragedy? Not so cool, despite the prettiness of it. All my favorite pairings (except Vash/Meryl), most of them canon-pairings, always seem to end with death or forced separation. I have a great lack of emotional gratification with this.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I adored the ending for Buffy & Spike-- it was sad but it was romantic, and romantic was what I really wanted. Nice icon, by the way.

But sometimes I want the big ending. For example, Farscape, John & Aeryn. That had a beautiful romanic ending, with a marraige proposal that was accepted. And I didn't want the tragedy with them, because their whole freakin 4 YEARS of the show had been filled with gut-wrenching tragedy. I was in a state of bliss that they'd finally decided to hold onto the one thing that did make them happy.

Then they were vaporized for future study by an alien, and the show ended with a "To be continued" sign. ::sigh:: That was thing that was almost just perfect.

It seems even the ones that don't end in death or forced separation, are kind of vague. Like Trigun, or Gundam Wing. There's heavy implications, but it's still inconclusive if they have a future.