TWOP - Doctor Who

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Popped over to TWOP and read the Dr. Who Season Finale thread and -- boy, those people are tough!  Seriously, is having a 'happy ending' such a horrific chore? OMG not enough people died.  Whatever.  It's okay for everything not to end in navel gazing loneliness, people!  It's okay to shake things up every now and again with dancing.  No, a steady diet of happy endings isn't 100% satisfying, neither is the ever repetitive 'it must end in tears' ones.  It's okay to mix it up a little. 

When did happy endings become inherently bad?  

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Heh, I am one of the hardest people to please when it comes to happy endings, so if I liked it, it must have been good. :)

No, a steady diet of happy endings isn't 100% satisfying, neither is the ever repetitive 'it must end in tears' ones.

Yeah, I think that's the key. If every season ended this way, it would be monumentally boring, not least of which because we'd know that there was no real danger. As it is, we pretty much always know that the Doctor will save the day, so the only angst to be had is over what the sacrifices will be. And it's okay, once in a while, to surprise us and have everything turn out great without having to sacrifice anything. I wouldn't recommend it all the time, but I think the Doctor and his companions have suffered enough that they earned this one.