Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31255465-20170923034221/@comment-33165688-20171113011839

Asfaloth12 wrote: Easol1,  Oh boy. I'm really sorry to hear about that. Does she have a good support system in place? This is why it is so incredibly annoying when certain...individuals...disparage happy endings. You never know what somebody is dealing with in their real life, and whether they may use fantasy as an escape from that. Look,  I'm not even  opposed to bittersweet (like Owari or End Times) or even sad endings....but  they need to make sense within the story and not make everything that came before it meaningless. If I want that, I'll pick up a newspaper or a history book.

Out of curiousity, does she know Nick's stance on the canonicity? Also, what are her thoughts on the whole canon contradiction with Renet's description of the future? Did that make her feel better at all?

Interesting that they call her "childish", when many of those same people brainlessly fawn over sad/downer endings without putting any critical thought into it (ie, whether it makes sense within the story or not). Also interesting when they lack the maturity to handle viewpoints that differ from their own.

Sorry if I sound crabby folks. Little anxious about my big board exam tomorrow** She has a good support system, but she's been struggling a lot in the last year and this really hit her hard. It's why I don't glamorize stories for being dark, depressing, meaningless or hopeless; there are people whose entire lives are swamped in those things with no way out, and pretending that it's more "adult" or sophisticated just makes a mockery of the horrible reality.

She does know Nick's stance, and the massive contradictions re: Renet. But the constant treatment of it as hard-and-fast canonical by so many, including series writers/producers, has really worn her out, and she's not sure what to think anymore.