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{{quote|''"Then comes the ending of the movie. Or the endings. One after another. Farewells. Poignancy. Lessons to be learned. Speeches to be made. Lost marbles to be rediscovered. Tears to be shed."''
|'''[[Roger Ebert]]''', on ''[[Hook]]''}}
{{quote|''"Lemme tell you something, if [[Peter Jackson]] really wanted to blow me away with those ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|[Lord of The] Rings]]'' movies, he would have ended the third one on the logical closure point, ''not'' the twenty-five endings that ''followed."
|'''Randal Graves''', ''[[Clerks II]]''.<ref>In case you're wondering, the "logical closure point" he's referring to involves Frodo, Sam, and oral sex</ref>}}
When a viewer, reader, or player finds the fiction they are perusing to be otherwise fine, but can't... quite... finish...
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A common complaint about ''[[Death Note]]'' in manga form is that it drags through the second arc, largely because the author wanted there to be exactly [[108]] chapters. The anime, on the flip side, shoehorns as many as nine manga chapters into a single episode.
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*** Ten was the incarnation that was obsessed with clinging on to life at almost any cost. Of ''course'' his sendoff was going to be long.
*** [[DVD Commentary|"It does have more endings than Lord of the Rings, this, doesn't it?"]]
* After they {{spoiler|''finally'' find the ''real'' Earth (or rather ''our'' Earth, which is not the first Earth but merely named after it)}} in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** {{spoiler|And even that, having what could be considered a poignant ending during said stretch (Adama sitting on the patch of land he plans to build he and Roslin's cabin on), it continues to keep going.}}
** Also the end of Season 2, when they colonize New Caprica. Especially fatiguing is the fact that the episode is actually 90 minutes long, rather than the normal hour. If you don't know this going in, you may start to wonder just when the episode ''is'' going to end.
* Noticeably averted in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', when the series ended when the ship arrives at Earth, much to the disappointment of many fans. This may have been the reason for the overly-long ending of ''
* ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'' had it set in about episode 30. After that, expect to be facepalming as they try and fail to tie up all the loose ends.
* Even the most ardent fans of the Cook/Effy/Freddie [[Love Triangle]] in Series 3 of ''[[Skins]]'' admit that Katie and Emily's episode (which ends with Naomily's [[Relationship Upgrade]]) is a better ending than the actual finale (which ends with [[So What Do We Do Now?]]).
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