Why are people so fucking obsessed with the idea of every cartoon needing closure? I watched shows like Rescue Rangers and TaleSpin as a kid and I never felt like they needed closure. Heck, I didn't even think Rocko's Static Cling needed to exist because Rocko's Modern Life really didn't need a finale nor did I feel it needed to come back. I can understand if it's stuff where they set something up and it was never resolved, but like The Simpsons really doesn't need an ending, Family Guy doesn't need an ending and neither does SpongeBob. Sometimes its better for shows to just stop rather than end.
>>153397434People like to see stories end.>Sometimes its better for shows to just stop rather than end.Yeah, maybe. But people will still want to see a proper ending.
>>153397771That's fair. I do feel like all good stories must stop eventually. With that said, having an ending to Tom & Jerry makes no sense, because it never felt like Tom & Jerry told stories usually, but rather it was a string of gags where the conflict was the whole thing of cat and mouse. Looney Tunes also never really needed an ending because it's conflicts and stories were basically just gags.
>>153397434Mostly chippers wanting their subversive deranged shipping on screen. Movie existing is closer to hell than the actual fly meme for them, that's an ending.
>>153397434Because A:TLA gaslit a generation into expecting lore and ongoing plots and conclusions in every goddamn cartoon, even goofy bullshit for little kids.
>>153397434Is this a strawman? I never asked for a "closure" for Rescue Rangers just a few more comic arcs. Damn shame the 2011 comics were cancelled after only two.
>>153397434Most fans of children's cartoons are autists, anonThey forge parasocial relationships with funny colorful cartoons characters that they can't make in real life and deeply intertwined with neatly cohesive and existing and paracosms they themselves can build upon (hence autistically dark fanfics for silly gag cartoons) that substitute an often messy and infinitely overcomplicated reality
>>153402035I do not get why animation is signaled out for this when this parasocialism is so present in live action content, and to a greater degree going by stuff like ao3 fanfics
I'd just like for the last episode to be something which breaks the status quo to give a sense of closure. The rescue rangers breaking up, going off on their own.
>>153397434This would be my guess, more or less >>153400891Probably a bit of anime influence, too.Reminder that JLU had a bombastic ending, but it still basically ended on status quo.
>>153400891I'd have said it was Dragon Ball Z that did thatThat was the first show most of us watched that even had an ongoing plot and none of us were even aware it wasn't American
>>153402320I'm pretty sure Gargoyles preceded the first US DBZ dub and was all about you needing to keep up with every episode and all the lore if you wanted to make sense of it.
Shows like Galtar, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Pirates of Dark Water, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice predate Avatar
>>153402585Do Galtar and King Arthur also not finish the story?
