Part of the reason for the series' rushed feeling may be that it was originally slated to be 39 episodes long, and was later cut back to the standard 26, making edits and pacing speed-ups necessary. Her separation from him seemed as though it should have been milked for more drama, but wasn't because, hey, it was the last episode, and it was time for the writers to wrap things up. She didn't seem the least bit distressed about leaving him. That last bit seems pretty inexplicable since -although there were hints throughout the series about how bad it might be for this world were Hitomi to remain in it-viewers were still expecting her to remain in Gaea with Vaan. At almost the last minute, the Big Bad is defeated, the heroic Love Triangle is resolved, Allen finds his long lost sister, the war ends, and the heroine goes home. The ending of the Vision of Escaflowne series is notorious for feeling rushed.The death of Cz is caused by her Cin personality suddenly taking over and letting herself die-which would have been really touching had they had time to establish it. Scrapped Princess is an example of a series that really needed two more episodes.It seems almost like the writers planned ahead for ten more episodes than they eventually got, and thus spent what is now the first half of the series on exposition and complicated setup, then struggled to resolve at least the most essential plots when it became clear that there was not much screen time left. Mai-Otome, starting roughly with episode 23.It probably didn't help that Executive Meddling changed the staff's original plans and forced the first several episodes to basically recycle the plot for the new audience though. Code Geass - after getting a whole extra season to play with, the plot suddenly races off around the 20th episode of the Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo.Contrast Exponential Plot Delay (though it's not unheard of for a series to have both at different times.)Īs an Ending Trope, Spoilers ahead may be unmarked. Things can be even worse if the series gets renewed after the writers did their best to tie everything up in time.Īnd, sometimes, authors die before finishing what they've planned.ĭepending on the medium, this may lead to or exacerbate problems with being Spoiled by the Format.ĭo not confuse with Celestial Deadline. If something is cancelled prematurely, for example, writers often have no choice but to rush the ending in order to wrap things up in a semi-satisfactory manner it's either that or No Ending. In fairness, in some cases this may not necessarily be the fault of the author. See Deus Ex Machina for a common symptom of this. In the event of a Cosmic Deadline, a bad author will hammer on resolutions as quickly as possible regardless of the impact on the story's quality. Now this can be normal for a story as it reaches its climax, but in this case the rate is so absurdly high compared to before that it's almost as if some invisible cosmic author realised that he has one hundred pages left of a thousand-page book to write and has yet to resolve most of the stray plot threads.Ī good author carefully plots everything out to come to natural conclusions. A phenomenon where the rate of character death and stray plotline resolution is exponentially and inversely proportional to the number of pages left in the book.Īs the end of the story nears, antagonists suddenly start dying at an incredible rate, MacGuffins that eluded the heroes for the whole story are recovered, and mysteries are quickly wrapped up.
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