Yeah ... I don't like sad stuff that doesn't eventually resolve into at least peace. Real life is depressing enough - I mean, take my father, who stuck with my mother through all her awful mental illnesses, where she was emotionally abusive to him, and then when he finds and marries Martha, he's crippled and in a wheelchair less than a year later and suffers for 3 more years and then dies. Real life can really suck, and I don't feel any need to have to deal with that kind of stuff in my escapism ... . I like my fictional happiness to be earned, so that there's a catharsis when it's finally attained, but I definitely want the characters to get somewhere good at the end.
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Yeah ... I don't like sad stuff that doesn't eventually resolve into at least peace. Real life is depressing enough - I mean, take my father, who stuck with my mother through all her awful mental illnesses, where she was emotionally abusive to him, and then when he finds and marries Martha, he's crippled and in a wheelchair less than a year later and suffers for 3 more years and then dies. Real life can really suck, and I don't feel any need to have to deal with that kind of stuff in my escapism ... . I like my fictional happiness to be earned, so that there's a catharsis when it's finally attained, but I definitely want the characters to get somewhere good at the end.