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This is the issue in today's market driven society, there's a big crowd which seems very open to forgetting the pleasures brought up during the development proc

This is the issue in today's market driven society, there's a big crowd which seems very open to forgetting the pleasures brought up during the development process, when the end comes and is not to their liking. They would all be much more content if they weren't so keen in erasing their own memory.

tsimionescu 5y ago
This is not a property of the market driven economy, it is a property of storytelling. For example, a story can have certain themes building up and exploring what you think are interesting directions, only for the ending to show a terrible conclusion to that theme. To give an extreme hypothetical example, lots of fantasy stories explore issues of race, and one could imagine a series that builds up a race conflict with complex characters on both sides, with only thinly veiled references to the real wod. If then the book were to end by showing that characters of a dark-skinned race are simply too stupid and evil, with even the moat interesting of them falling prey to his race's tendency for being criminal, readers would justifiably be horrified by the ending, and feel that the apparently interesting direction they were being led on was a lie, retroactively regretting having been nodding along with the author.