Welp, different strokes I guess. I didn’t like the Azkaban arc so much, and I quite like the ending. On the one hand, I agree that if a substantial fraction of readers are unsatisfied, there’s probably something Eliezer could fix. On the other hand, I got mine, mwahahaha.
It’s not that i dislike the ending. I just don’t think it’s as emotionally moving as it should be/as I predicted it would have been. I was expecting something that would make me go “Yes, goddammit, yes!” while I start planning to improve my life and be a better person.
Instead I got an ending that was a completely functional ending for this story with some jokes in it.
Something like that, yeah, although that particular example does little for me. As additional data points: The Sword of Good, the Humanism arc, the short “There is light in the world...” speech and I Shall Wear Midnight (by Terry Pratchett) were things that incited that sort of emotion in me.
Welp, different strokes I guess. I didn’t like the Azkaban arc so much, and I quite like the ending. On the one hand, I agree that if a substantial fraction of readers are unsatisfied, there’s probably something Eliezer could fix. On the other hand, I got mine, mwahahaha.
It’s not that i dislike the ending. I just don’t think it’s as emotionally moving as it should be/as I predicted it would have been. I was expecting something that would make me go “Yes, goddammit, yes!” while I start planning to improve my life and be a better person.
Instead I got an ending that was a completely functional ending for this story with some jokes in it.
Something like, say, the ending of Chapter 27? (Just trying to get a feel for your position here.)
Something like that, yeah, although that particular example does little for me. As additional data points: The Sword of Good, the Humanism arc, the short “There is light in the world...” speech and I Shall Wear Midnight (by Terry Pratchett) were things that incited that sort of emotion in me.