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Originally Posted by lcarus
Yep. Luckily, Gilligan didn't go this route. People expect some kind of ambiguous twist ending with everything now.
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I agree, and despise the need for such endings. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a twist ending, but it's also not necessary for something to be quality, and the expectation that it must be there reduces such endings to generic features of certain genres.
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