To Save Her is a noir Unicorn Jelly story. It is dark, it is black and white with deep shadows, and the characters have hidden, and suspect, agendas. It is inevitable that tragedy of some sort must occur, the only question is how, to whom, and what form it will take.
It is my great wish that when this inevitable tragedy strikes, the audience will not be left empty, that although they have suffered a cruel loss, it will speak about the central theme of the tale, that it will illuminate, that it will be a necessary component, and ultimately, not stupid, not pointless. I think, and I have been advised, that I have nothing to worry about. Cruel can be accepted, if it is not stupid, and arbitrary can be accepted if it is not stupid; ultimately everything depends on events not being stupid. Which is to say, pointless.
May the rest of my story not be stupid.
I guess we shall see.
- deserves further discussion.
Does anyone here think that a "so-called" bad ending will ruin the rest of the story for us?
From what I have seen so far, we have already seen signs of what is to come. We know that this story is much darker than PDH, and we've seen many signs of what is (?) to come...
My thoughts are that, so long as it isn't like the ending of The Mist (ie. movie based on Stephen King short story), I will be happy with it.
You haven't seen the movie? Well, let's just say that it has a lot to do with Jennifer's comments in her essay (re. pointless tragedy)... My God, I HATED the way that movie ended... the book was much better IMHO.
Besides, what's the alternative? Give up? Rewrite? Make a (god forbid) HAPPY ENDING?!?