Okay, so today we are going to be talking about great and terrible series endings. So i'll have
linked in the description the first two videos i did. I talked about incredible series starters;
incredible first books in a series. Then i talked about sequels that made me change my mind either
positive or negative about how i thought i was gonna feel about a series. Either the
sequel blew me away and hooked me, or it really really let me down and now we're gonna talk about
endings. Endings that blew me out of the water. Phenomenal, incredible endings to series, or
really disappointing ones. This is gonna be the shortest list in this, in this three part video,
thing that i'm doing because i... i don't finish... i don't have that many finished series.
I have a lot of open series either because i just haven't gotten around to the ending or because the
author hasn't gotten around to the ending. There's a lot of open series that i'm currently reading.
Anyway, here's a list of series that i finished that either had, that had really dynamic
endings as far as how i felt about them, whether positive or negative. But before we get into the
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Oh, one more thing... before we get started, this is all spoiler free. I'm going to be talking
vaguely about things that were great and terrible about these endings so you're free to watch the
whole video, but there's also timestamps in the descriptions in case you don't even want to hear
my spoiler-free thoughts about certain series enders. Okay, first book in the series... our
first first series that i'm going to be talking about is probably the most obvious one on this
list and that is The Wheel of Time series. So i really enjoyed the start of this series. The
first six books were great in my opinion. Books seven through ten were much more of a struggle,
especially eight and ten were a big struggle for me. And then books 11 through 14 were fantastic.
I, okay. This is the longest series i've ever read and uh 14 books especially since all 14,
almost all 14 of those books are really really large in page count,
it was a journey getting through this series, but the payoff was completely
there. Don't get me wrong, this series is flawed and i pointed out those flaws or
at least what i felt were flaws throughout my entire series review as i went through
reading through The Wheel of Time series, but oh my goodness. I was so happy with the way it all
came together in the end. I was so pleased with the the intricate way every character in the end
had a specific role. It's, it's a chosen one trope and i think that Robert Jordan
did a phenomenal job of taking that chosen one trope and doing something really fantastic with
it in the final battle. I think he wrote the final battle really well. There were very few
parts of the final battle and it was a very intricate, very expansive, lots of characters
to balance. There were very few parts that i was kind of disappointed with the role that the
characters played. I think it was great. And even one of my major complaints about the series uh
i think that he resolved it in a really satisfying way. That's the best i can do. If you want
spoilers check out my spoiler filled review of book 14. If you want more in-depth non-spoilers,
check out my series review. Both will be linked. Next book on the next series, on the list
is Death Note. So i think even the fandom of Death Note, even the big fans of Death Note kind of
largely (not universally), but largely agree that there's a certain point in Death Note where
it stops being incredible. It's not necessarily that it turns bad, but the the
the high high of the first half of the series um doesn't stay consistent throughout the entire
series. Definitely in my opinion. I'm not i'm not trying to speak for anybody else. I was told that,
and this is a short series to read as far as manga series go anyway, but i was told
that the ending is really really satisfying so if we had just condensed some of the later volumes
then the series would be, you know, perfect. I don't actually agree with that. I think that the
ending was good. I think that it was solid and i think that it was satisfying enough, but it wasn't
good enough to make up for how much of a step down the latter half of the series was in my opinion.
So i actually, while i think that uh the ending was solid, i don't think that...
it still let me down. The ending still let me down because um i think that it had to be a lot better
than that in order to to to make up for uh the step down that it took. And don't get me wrong,
i don't think that that the second half of the of the series is terrible,
but the first half was just so good you guys. The first half of Death Note was just so
fantastic that it really bummed me out that that it the second half drug out as long as it
as long as it did. I, this is rare for me. Usually an ending can totally destroy a series for me.
Death Note is one of the few series where i think that it took a left turn and didn't really recover
from that left turn well and yet i still think that it's it's just a series that i can't stop
thinking about because the first half was so incredible. I enjoyed it so much. I'm probably
over hyping it now, but i just really liked it guys! Hero of Ages. I'll just be super brief on
because i did talk about Mistborn in the first uh, the first video. The, the great in beginnings and
i'm trying not to repeat myself too much, but man i really liked the ending of this trilogy!
I know that it's kind of controversial. Some people were pretty disappointed with the ending,
but i'm not one of those people. I thought that it was, i thought that the way he brought everything
together and took little details from book one and made them significant by the end of book three,
i loved the way he did it. I, this was my first, this was my first experience with Sanderson and
this was my first series ending with Sanderson as well and this was the book that made me realize,
"Oh. This author really really thinks things through and he's an author that i can trust
to make it all matter and make it really satisfying by the end." I was really really
happy with the way this series wrapped up. Really happy. The Hunger Games is a little bit different.
So i read this series i think, i don't remember how old i was. It was a long time ago. I was still
living at home and i loved book one. Books one and two, and book three! No! Mockingjay was such
a disappointment. Not only, not only was the general plot of it not very interesting to me,
i really wasn't interested in very much that was trying to happen in book three, but...
I... I don't know how to do this when spoiler-free.
There were certain major critical emotional events that just kind of happened and then
we moved on and then we never really came back to deal with the emotions of them. There were other
certain things that i had been waiting for the resolution on since book one that i think were
dragged out way too long and by the time we got the resolution, man it was so disappointing.
It was just not good enough for how long it got dragged out and just in general i i don't think,
i don't even think that it was mildly satisfying. I don't even think that the ending was good, but
didn't live up to the ones before. It just what, i just didn't like it! I don't want to believe
that book three exists. I want to make my own fan canon ending to book two and call it a duology.
It was so disappointing. I didn't like it even a little! And i'm gonna end this video on a much
more positive note. We're gonna talk about The First Law trilogy. Oh my goodness! I enjoyed books
one and two a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot. I thought they were both great. Book three; i enjoyed it
so very much! I had a great time with the first two books, but book three is the book that kind of
changed my idea of Joe Abercrombie. This was the book that made me realize, "Oh. He's a favorite
author of mine. I'm gonna need to read all that he writes." And i still believe that. He's such
an incredible author. I am so impressed with his character work in his books. I'm so impressed
with his ability to balance different cultures and different belief systems and different ideologies
in this very cohesive and natural way. Every character feels like their backstory and like,
every decision that they make and every thought that they have is real and earned and not forced.
He is able to balance so much so well. He's not a very uh plot-focused author in the trilogy.
Though, Best Served Cold was just Joe showing off i think, but but the trilogy is not a very
plot focused trilogy, yet in book three, the the whole story that we've been very slowly
going through comes together in a way that i really really really liked! I think Joe has such
unique and brave endings to his stories and things that you wouldn't really expect and i could see
how his endings might make people go... "Wait, THAT!?!?" But for me i go, "Wait... THAT!?!?
Ohhhh. That's cool!" That's the best i could do spoiler free. Anyway,
that is a list of great and terrible endings in my opinion. I would love to chat with you more
about it in the comments. I post videos every Tuesday through Friday. I'll see you guys again
soon. Bye.