History Main / EndingFatigue

* Akira Kurosawa's ''{{Ran}}'' has this problem. About 90 minutes into the film, it looks like it's about to reach a satisfying conclusion: Lord Hidetora is cornered, under siege by his own remaining sons' armies and left to commit seppuku in a burning building. But instead of killing himself or suffocating as he should, he loses his mind and walks out of the building, ''and they let him go'', and we get 90 ''more'' minutes of movie. [[WallBanger Much of the rest of the movie is driven by the search for Hidetora by the very people who let him go in the first place.]]

Some songs that employ EpicRocking can lead to this.

* Done deliberately in the MontyPython song ''I'm So Worried''. Ending of third to last verse: "I'm so worried about whether I should go on, or whether I should just stop." Beginning of second to last verse: "I'm so worried about whether I ought to have stopped. And I'm so worried 'cause it's the sort of thing I ought to know." Beginning of final verse: "I'm so worried about whether I should have stopped then. I'm so worried that I'm driving everyone round the bend."

* CDs vs. LPs. They both have their advantages and disadvantages as far as sound quality goes, but CDs can hold 80 minutes of music, while it's difficult to find an LP that can hold more than 50. Musicians feel compelled to fill up the entire cd so the listener can get their money's worth, which leads to lots and lots of filler. Rather have 40 minutes of quality than 80 minutes of could-have-been.

* Also, "I'm Your Captain" by Grand Funk Railroad. The song isn't that bad. Then you get to the halfway point and the singer keeps saying "I'm getting closer to my home." over and over again.

** ''Die Walküre'' has Wotan's endless farewell and the Magic Fire Music.
** ''Siegfried'''s finale -- let's say it begins when Siegfried finds the sleeping Brünnhilde --- lasts for about 35-40 minutes.
** ''Götterdämmerung''. Brünnhilde's Immolation is the basis of the "Fat Lady Sings" joke. 'Nuff said.

* As pointed out quite humorously by [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses the Nostalgia Chick]] the PilotMovie of ''HeMan'''s quite literal sister series ''SheRa'' ends and then promptly moves onto a previously unmentioned plot point, several times.

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* Half of the premise of this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazlqD4mLvw old Dudley Moore pastiche]] of a Beethoven piano sonata.

* Done deliberately in the MontyPython song ''I'm So Worried''. Ending of third to last verse: "I'm so worried about whether I should go on, or whether I should just stop." Beginning of second to last verse: "I'm so worried about whether I ought to have stopped. And I'm so worried 'cause it's the sort of thing I ought to know." Beginning of final verse: "I'm so worried about whether I should have stopped then. I'm so worried that I'm driving everyone round the bend."

Note that this isn't simply "the story is too long/goes too slowly," but it actually appears if it's going to end but doesn't several times. The effect of this is a frustratingly jarring experience which eventually has the viewer thinking something along the lines of "Just ''end'' already!" This is, [[TropesAreTools for the most part]], ''not'' a reaction you want to provoke in the reader, or the theater goer who [[PottyEmergency badly wants to run the the restroom]] but doesn't want to miss the end of the movie that they paid good money to see.

* At the begining of ''{{Bakugan}}'''': New Vestroia'', the brawlers joined a resistance group that's trying to free the Bakugan enslaved by the Vestals. Then they had to stop the Vexos from destroying all the Bakugan on New Vestroia. ''Then'' they had to [[spoiler:stop the Vexos from ''[[OmnicidalManiac destroying the whole universe]]'']]. By the time the brawlers are [[spoiler:stopping Zenoheld's plan to end the whole universe]], it feels like the climax had past a long time ago.

* TheFountainhead as well. Around page 350, when Harold Roark gets his grand-standing speech in court describing his motives and his view on humanity (pretty much dropping Rand's anvil, if you haven't been awake long enough to get what she was aiming at the whole book). To this Troper, it seems when you've got your character in a position to monologue for three pages about everything that he did since the beginning of the book to society at a whole, this is a good place to say, "climax! Now for the denoument!" Apparently, Rand knew that her personal philosiphy wouldn't go down quite as easy, so Roark ends up in prison and he doesn't get his moment as "revolutionary genious" until ''another'' 350 pages.

* Averted quite noticably in late-70s/early-80s British TV show TheProfessionals, where the credits often ran straight after the scene in which the bad guy was caught or shot (or the objective achieved). In such cases there were just a few seconds of terse post-action dialogue or banter before things finished. Where epilogue scenes did exist, they were still fairly short and no-nonsense.

* ''TheLongestJourney'' became a bit to long in the tooth at the end. The developers actually seems to be aware of this, as April (the protagonist) is around midways outright given a PlotCoupon, instead of having to do the usual fulfilling of ancient prophecy ballyhoo (April {{lampshades}} this).

** Some feel the game was already reaching EndingFatigue throughout the whole World of Ruin segement of the game.