Hold off! ye weaklings; hold your hands!
Adventure it let none,
For this emprise, my lord the king,
Was meant for me alone.
Adventure it let none,
For this emprise, my lord the king,
Was meant for me alone.
— Don Quixote, Last lines.
He had remembered typing the final sentence of Misery's Child: "So Ian and Geoffrey left the Little Dunthorpe churchyard together, supporting themselves in their sorrow, determined to find their lives again." While writing this line he had been giggling so madly it had been hard to strike the correct keys - he had to go back several times. Thank God for good old IBM Correct Tape. He had written THE END below and then had gone capering around the room- this same room in the Boulderado Hotel- and screaming Free at last! Free at last! Great God Almighty, I'm free at last! The silly bitch finally bought the farm!
— Misery
This is the last story. Ever. SO if another story happens to get written about the adventures of Shamoosh or grinch's in general you can know its fake. Since al the grinchs are dead.
— Shamoosh, ending postscript of the In Name Only Troll Fic 'The death of all Grinchs'
The late James F. Bowman was writing a serial tale for a weekly paper in collaboration with a genius whose name has not come down to us. They wrote, not jointly but alternately, Bowman supplying the installment for one week, his friend for the next, and so on, world without end, they hoped. Unfortunately they quarreled, and one Monday morning when Bowman read the paper to prepare himself for his task, he found his work cut out for him in a way to surprise and pain him. His collaborator had embarked every character of the narrative on a ship and sunk them all in the deepest part of the Atlantic.
— The Devil's Dictionary, "Serial".
You'd think they were trying to burn the show down for the insurance money.
I had lunch with Charles early on in the planning, and I made a joke about how the previous Daredevil writers always try to fuck over the incoming writers with cliffhangers. That's when he told me he was "killing" Daredevil, and I immediately regretted making my joke.
If I got the rights I would do a final movie "Waterchip Down" where the Chipmunks all brutally die at war and then make it legally binding that there can never be another Chipmunk movie again because "the Chipmunks are dead now"
Anyway can I borrow 300 million dollars
Anyway can I borrow 300 million dollars
"At one point this might've been Doug's magnum opus, but at this point everyone has rejected it, so who cares if he ruins everything, kills everyone, and just stops it? Sure, there are some people who are fans of Demo Reel to this day who were upset by this ending, but... why should Doug care? In his eyes, all he can see is the massive amount of backlash people gave him, so why give them a respectful ending?"
"These Are the Voyages... is a disaster of an episode that would be a mess in any other circumstance, but which is unforgivable as the last broadcast hour of the Berman era as a whole. This is the episode that draws the curtain down on eighteen years of Star Trek. Unfortunately, it seems to also want to set fire to the whole enterprise."
"It's a pretty damn hard act to follow." Normally that phrase is used because the last person was so good. This is more along the lines of "it's hard to follow that guy's act, because as he left he set the stage on fire. Literally."
— Anonymous commentator, regarding recent events in Batman
I think, trying to wrap up that many fractal narratives and give everybody a conclusion, Norrington's going to have to have his due, etc.. the thing just grows. That's what they do. They just go, ‘Well, the audiences love this guy, got to pay that guy off, and these guys have to return, and those guys have to show.’ Then you just start going, ‘Oh my God, I can't sustain this, I need to blow it up. I need to go blow it all up. To really end it. ’ So, I tried to make the third one saying, ‘There shouldn't be any more.’… I was like, okay, no more, done, three and out.
—'Gore Verbinski on what he decided to do about
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.