Soooo....Mass Effect 3

[Lissa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqHUa2LfNY - Love the omni guitar

Another good article on the ending and fan entitlement.

This quote isn't representative of the view in ther article, but it's the argument I identify with the most.

Over the past decade in television, we’ve seen a creative medium come into its own and take some bold leaps forward, but there’s still some room to grow. I think after The Sopranos--or, more specifically, after Twin Peaks--I think a lot of TV storytellers became enamored with this notion that TV writing can be an art and I can be an artist, and I can have my own show and tell my own story and it’s my story, my world, my rules, and I’m going to tell you a story and you’re going to listen to it, and you’re going to follow it, and if I bring you to a certain end that is maybe not necessarily a happy ending or the ending that you want, it’s still my story. It has to be my story if it has any artistic integrity..

Problem then comes, if people don't like it, do you think a producer is going to let you write another story? Look no further than M Night Shamalaya. Look how far he fell because of Signs and follow on projects. Everyone agrees that the twist to the end of Sixth Sense was pretty awesome and tied in well with the rest of the movie, but after that, his twist endings have gotten him into more trouble than not. So the same comes with writers in other media, if you do something your consumers don't like for an ending, how do you think future producers are going to give you a job if they can expect the same kind of situation where they (the producer) ends up losing consumers because of "your" story. Why do you think people bitch at George Lucas about Star Wars? Because he has this attitude about it being his story. A writer has to realize that if they make a story that involves the consumers, ie fans, as much as some stories do, it's also their story too as has been stated by some Star Wars fans. The only thing Lucas has going for him is he is the producer of his movies, so he can tell the fans to toss off, but at the same time, he also ends up losing fans as well. No producer is going to let you continue to write a story your way if it ends up costing them, the producer, money because your attitude drives people away.