So my wife finished the last Sookie Stackhouse novel last night.
So my wife finished the last Sookie Stackhouse novel last night. She's been telling me how crazy the fans have been. I'm trying to think of a beloved fantasy/sci-fi series that ended without legions of irrational, pissed-off fans. I can think of several that petered out before getting to the cray-cray stage, or going so long that no one cared anymore. I'm going with TV here because I tend to avoid mega-long book series.
X-Files: too long. No one cared anymore.
Battlestar Galactica: pissed off fans.
Buffy: pissed off fans.
Lost: pissed off fans.
Firefly: Never got far enough to piss anyone off, instead created posthumous crazy fans.
Star Trek TNG & DS9: maybe the only show/series I can think of without pissed off fans at the end?
I also made my wife tell me which hunk of man-candy Sookie picked.
So maybe there's no way to end a successful series without pissed off fans.
ReplyDeleteStargate SG-1 ended just fine.
ReplyDeleteAh, I didn't watch that one.
ReplyDeleteThe secret is to not be successful. Reading some more about the "If Sookie doesn't choose Eric I'll kill myself!" crowd, someone really needs to make Misery required reading for psycho fans.
ReplyDeleteI thought Harry Potter did one of the better jobs of ending. You know there is 1 book for each year of school and the end closed all the major threads.
ReplyDeleteJames LaManna Agreed, though it didn't stop the crazy fans.
ReplyDeleteHow about Lord of the Rings? Some folks complained about the 37 endings, but I don't recall massive nerdrage.