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#1 Feb 16 2008 at 3:39 AM Rating: Decent
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And Philip Pullman just won this year's Worst Story Ending Ever award.

Seriously, how can you end an epic trilogy like that? He even toyed with the sadness of the ending, by giving the reader hope when the angel told that one window was allowed open. Oh, but that window was reserved to the dead, sorry. So, you have to leave each other now, just as you've revealed your love for each other and then you have to go to each your own world and live a life of misery because you can never be with your one true love.

That sucks. That's kinda like killing off Aragorn or Arwen in the final chapter of The Lord of the Rings. You can't do that. It was so obvious throughout the entire story that Lyra and Will were to end up together. Hell, that was the climax of the entire story. They had to fall in love to save the worlds. And then they decide to stay apart for a lifetime rather than be together for ten-some years. What?! Wouldn't you rather live ten years with your true love than a lifetime without? And what happened after the story ended? There are so many lose ends. What happened to Iorek? What happened to Will and Lyra? And what happened to the witch Serafina (Seraphina?) after the story ended.

Most importantly, why didn't they just close the hole to the world of the dead for the duration of their life? I'm sure the world of the dead can wait another 60-70 years before they're released into nothingness. And apparently Will's only reason for not wanting to do the whole "cut a hole, jump through and close the hole again" strategy was because each cut caused a Ghost or whatever they're called in the English version of the book. So what? The lady angel already said that they would handle the remaining Ghosts. Why couldn't they handle another one every ten years when Will and Lyra were to jump worlds to avoid the sickness?

It felt like the author had to suddenly finish off the story, which was rich on details all the way through to the endinng, and did it by simply cutting all threads and using a "shocker" ending for emotional effect.

Great trilogy, but the ending seriously sucks.

Edited, Feb 16th 2008 12:41pm by Mazra
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#2 Feb 16 2008 at 9:01 AM Rating: Decent
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If you were shocked by the ending, you missed the point of the books.

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#3 Feb 16 2008 at 9:08 AM Rating: Decent
I didn't need to reach the ending of the trilogy to dislike the series. I really only liked the first part.
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I thought the point was to torture unsuspecting readers?
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#5 Feb 16 2008 at 1:45 PM Rating: Decent
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I thought the point was to torture unsuspecting readers?


You know, I never thought of it that way, but now that you mention it...
#6 Feb 16 2008 at 5:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Smasharoo wrote:
If you were shocked by the ending, you missed the point of the books.


Then I most certainly did. What was the point?

Other than the whole "we must create Heaven's Republic ourselves." Never really understood that. You can't unite all worlds in one Republic, in one dimension, as no one can survive in a dimension they don't belong to, but what was the whole epiphany Lyra had about creating the republic in each dimension? They had to spread the message of friendliness and whatnot?

Ps. Did Asriel and Marisa really think that pulling an angel - with wings - into a bottomless pit was a way to kill it? How do you kill a flying creature by throwing it into a hole? It can fly, for god's sake (no pun intended).

Edited, Feb 17th 2008 3:02am by Mazra
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#7 Feb 17 2008 at 9:59 AM Rating: Good
You mean the "His Dark Materials Triliogy", right? Because as far as I'm concerned the Golden Compass is a sucky film and nothing else.
#8 Feb 18 2008 at 7:40 AM Rating: Good
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The movie wasn't that bad (aside from the fact that they cut out the ending. wtf was that all about?) There were some pointless changes but that's to be expected when there's a book/movie conversion.
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And Philip Pullman just won this year's Worst Story Ending Ever award.


Looks like someone hasn't read "Flowers in the Attic!"
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#10 Feb 21 2008 at 1:57 PM Rating: Decent
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The Honorable Annabella wrote:
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And Philip Pullman just won this year's Worst Story Ending Ever award.


Looks like someone hasn't read "Flowers in the Attic!"


No. You?
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#11 Mar 10 2008 at 1:41 AM Rating: Decent
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I have to admit, I was upset by the ending too, but I think he wrote it that way to avoid the happy ending and to tell the readers you can't always get what you want.

Honestly, it is one of my favorite trilogies to date.
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