Snape’s big reveal in canon had a similar effect on me, since it was more or less solved by the readers ahead of time.
IIRC, at the end of The Dark Tower series King breaks the fourth wall and basically says: are you certain you want to read the ending? It will not be as good as you expect, so you might as well stop right here and savor the journey rather than being disappointed by the destination.
That isn’t what ‘breaking the fourth wall’ means- it would be some element of a fictional universe engaging with or acknowledging reality.
I would also like to express my fiery and eternal hatred for the ‘happy’ ending he wrote. The final ending redeemed for me what was an irredeemable book.
Snape’s big reveal in canon had a similar effect on me, since it was more or less solved by the readers ahead of time.
IIRC, at the end of The Dark Tower series King breaks the fourth wall and basically says: are you certain you want to read the ending? It will not be as good as you expect, so you might as well stop right here and savor the journey rather than being disappointed by the destination.
That isn’t what ‘breaking the fourth wall’ means- it would be some element of a fictional universe engaging with or acknowledging reality.
I would also like to express my fiery and eternal hatred for the ‘happy’ ending he wrote. The final ending redeemed for me what was an irredeemable book.