Rory wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 3:28 pm
Not even saying that as a dismissive/pricky thing, but really, there's tons of great movies/television/art out there, and it's okay to watch things and feel a little sad. Art can touch us in many ways, it's good to engage with those feels every now and then!
I’d say people who didn’t connect with GT’s ending is not due to lack of intake of sad stories but just the opposite, since obviously the more you experience of something, the more you kinda unwillingly refine your standards, or said thing becomes less impressive to you as opposed to other people.
For me, since the base tone of DB isn’t tragic, I just mostly found the ending here to be unnecessarily drastic and not in tune with this series. I saw it as presenting itself as wholesome to force a “closure” that I didn’t need.
And I’m not saying I wasn’t moved by the episode, there were chilling scenes like the one with Krillin, and the final montage too, but that doesn’t mean I have to appreciate how it resolved things.
Like mainly I didn’t feel Goku’s story had to end there, therefore I just don’t see the value in shoving a closure.
And overall I don’t really understand people’s wank for cLoSUrE and death like that automatically meant quality or significance.
For example I didn’t like the ending of Z either but I prefer it any time cause at least you’re not left with a feeling that Goku’s story ends off-screen, so that makes it more satisfying.