Logan,
I'm not sure if I can be an objective sounding board on this. I have spent the last few hours with your post percolating in the back of my mind though. This is not meant to be an attack on you, or how you feel, I'm just, well, wanting to ask a few questions about *why* you feel like you do.
One of the things that I wondered about ever since the ME3 'ending controversy' came about are the people like you, who have, basically, read the first two parts of a trilogy, deemed them to be *amazing*, even with the flaws they have, then picked up the third book, peeked at the ending, and thrown it away. I'm not saying the ending is good/bad/ugly/whatever. I'm just wondering how you can feel so- abandoned, I guess, by the way the final storyline was resolved. So abandoned, in fact, that you can't even read fanfic- other authors attempts to write a different-but-familiar universe. I know that a lot of fanfic (not just ME's) tend to be a 'start at the beginning, changing *thus*', but there are those who have gone and taken a snapshot of the ending and twisted it to their own preferences. Hell, I've done the same in my own thoughts, really. I just can't see how you can abandon the emotional investment into the series- however many Shepards you made, however they turned out- because of a peek at a badly written end sequence.
And I think that's why you are in 'mourning'. You're giving up the emotional attachment you've made to both the storyline that played out, and the characters that you grew so attached to. I can't understand *why* you're giving it up, but I can understand why you're feeling that way.
Anyway. My thoughts and $5 will get you a latte. As I said, I'm not saying your making a bad decision by abandoning this. I just don't understand why you are.
I'm not sure if I can be an objective sounding board on this. I have spent the last few hours with your post percolating in the back of my mind though. This is not meant to be an attack on you, or how you feel, I'm just, well, wanting to ask a few questions about *why* you feel like you do.
One of the things that I wondered about ever since the ME3 'ending controversy' came about are the people like you, who have, basically, read the first two parts of a trilogy, deemed them to be *amazing*, even with the flaws they have, then picked up the third book, peeked at the ending, and thrown it away. I'm not saying the ending is good/bad/ugly/whatever. I'm just wondering how you can feel so- abandoned, I guess, by the way the final storyline was resolved. So abandoned, in fact, that you can't even read fanfic- other authors attempts to write a different-but-familiar universe. I know that a lot of fanfic (not just ME's) tend to be a 'start at the beginning, changing *thus*', but there are those who have gone and taken a snapshot of the ending and twisted it to their own preferences. Hell, I've done the same in my own thoughts, really. I just can't see how you can abandon the emotional investment into the series- however many Shepards you made, however they turned out- because of a peek at a badly written end sequence.
And I think that's why you are in 'mourning'. You're giving up the emotional attachment you've made to both the storyline that played out, and the characters that you grew so attached to. I can't understand *why* you're giving it up, but I can understand why you're feeling that way.
Anyway. My thoughts and $5 will get you a latte. As I said, I'm not saying your making a bad decision by abandoning this. I just don't understand why you are.