Yessss, I've been thinking a lot about endings this month! I don't watch GoT because reasons, but it has been fascinating to watch fannishly mainstream reactions (I say, casually dismissing a million fans crying out in agony) to something.

I absolutely think it's about respect, although I often frame it as dignity, or sometimes wholeness of character -- the entire arc should be a cohesive person, and the entire story should hang together as a...unfinished piece, or finished insofar as it clearly weaves into the rest of the (unspoken) world. And I know endings are hard, they are, but also! Professional storytellers! It also feels often like a confusion about what stories are supposed to be doing for their audience, why they've been made—but also, I am spoiled rotten in fandom with an abundance of respectful endings.

Anyway I have no feelings about this whatsoever, clearly.