Post Series Depression

[tredecim]

In books, I was horrified when Robert Jordan died before the final books of Wheel Of Time - I was getting flashbacks to when I was reading the Dune series for the first time as a kid and then got to the end of the final book (from Frank Herbert, that is) and realised it was a cliffhanger and he was dead. I didn't want WoT to become the watered-down, shambling corpse that Herbert Jr and Anderson have turned the Dune series into. Thankfully Brandon Sanderson doesn't seem to be doing that, and if anything, his writing style seems to have improved the WoT a little! Win!

Just started the Wheel of Time haha
And I dunno, each to his own, but I think Herbs Jr and Kevin J Anderson (one of my fav sci fi writers, btw) did a fair job on the new books.

They might have been good if they hadn't been Dune books - if that makes sense?

Frank Herbert had a very distinct style and his books were (imo) intricate, layered and weighty. I think HJr and KJA bascially took Dune and turned the series into a bunch of mainstream pulp, tbh. The "House" prequels were ok, to be fair to them, but after that the quality shot downhill.

WoT is great, you'll enjoy it, but be prepared for a couple of big slumps (book 10, if memory serves - possibly 11) is one of the most 'filler' entries in a series of all time!

 

[Outright Villainy]

Oh, full metal alchemist definitely. Good thing the movie wrapped it all down anti climactically so I didn't feel too bad after it.

[small]That movie really could have been a lot better...[/small]

 

[Cowabungaa]

I recommend Samurai Champloo! Then you'll cry like a ***** again! Don't worry. We all cried like bitches because we knew it was coming.

I second what tredecim already said; Champloo was brilliant, it's ending was brilliant, but it wasn't thát much of a heart-tugger. It almost was though.

It did have that same satisfying feeling as Bebop gave, just without the grief.

 

[RandyPants]

In books, I was horrified when Robert Jordan died before the final books of Wheel Of Time - I was getting flashbacks to when I was reading the Dune series for the first time as a kid and then got to the end of the final book (from Frank Herbert, that is) and realised it was a cliffhanger and he was dead. I didn't want WoT to become the watered-down, shambling corpse that Herbert Jr and Anderson have turned the Dune series into. Thankfully Brandon Sanderson doesn't seem to be doing that, and if anything, his writing style seems to have improved the WoT a little! Win!

Just started the Wheel of Time haha
And I dunno, each to his own, but I think Herbs Jr and Kevin J Anderson (one of my fav sci fi writers, btw) did a fair job on the new books.

They might have been good if they hadn't been Dune books - if that makes sense?

Frank Herbert had a very distinct style and his books were (imo) intricate, layered and weighty. I think HJr and KJA bascially took Dune and turned the series into a bunch of mainstream pulp, tbh. The "House" prequels were ok, to be fair to them, but after that the quality shot downhill.

WoT is great, you'll enjoy it, but be prepared for a couple of big slumps (book 10, if memory serves - possibly 11) is one of the most 'filler' entries in a series of all time!

Ah, I get what you mean, then, yeah - I suppose no one could replicate the original's style - but I enjoyed the House prequels the most. You should check out KJA's Seven Suns saga, good bit of space opera there.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting to get pulled into WoT so much, thought I'd fail after like 100 pages cause the first book's just so massive, but no, the story's powerfully compelling and I'm going through pages hungrily.
R.I.P Robert Jordan.

 

[Borntolose]

I felt that way after I watched Firefly. It's really terrible knowing that there probably will never be any more especially because it had no real ending.

 

[googleit6]

Hmm...I've felt that about a lot of things, but strangly enough, I can't call any of them to mind at the moment.

The ending of the book "The Book Theif" had me extremly upset.

The thing is, I'm not really old enough to have watched full series of anything, and I haven't watched any old series over and over, so I usually get PSD between seasons of my favorite shows like House.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Other series were Angel Beats, Working, and Tower of Druaga.

Oh Angel Beats... saddest ending I've seen in a long time.

Definitely that, oddly I don't get it with that many animes. When I finished Soul Eater I just had a feeling of satisfaction from a brilliant series.

But generally every Final Fantasy game I've completed and even Metal Gear Solid 2 has left that empty feeling once completed...

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I was depressed after reading the final Harry Potter book.

But that may have because it was awful.

I'm also mildy depressed until the next Inheritance Cycle book comes out. Partially because if I keep reading them at this age people will think I'm odd.

 

[I Max95]

firefly, Numb3rs, his dark materials (dissappointing ending by the way)

but it hit me the worst was when i finished the Percy jackson books
mostly because it didnt end
the bad guy dies (sort of), order is restored, the hero gets the girl BUT WAIT! there more
but let the next generation handle that
i hate it when series do that

 

[Drakmeire]

I just finished Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and I thought that I would bring this thread back.
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/gurennlagann/images/5/5f/TengenToppaGurren-LagannMECH.jpg
I'm afraid that no anime can ever compare to this one picture anymore.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

I'm currently undertaking the watching of all 9 seasons and two movies of The X-Files.
Slow, steady progress so far.
I've done 3 seasons in about uh... 4 months? Pretty slow going, but I'm not in the mood for The X-Files every night.

But one day, well into next year, I am going to finish my epic (read: ridiculous) undertaking and there's gonna be a hole where my heart used to be since I will no longer be getting my frequent dose of Mulder and Scully.

When you watch a series or season of something over an extended period of time, a part of you ends up living inside that world. Last time I watched Twin Peaks this was especially noticable. Took me about a month, and after that there was a part of me that felt strangely empty, but that was just a month.

The X-Files is the biggest set of TV Series/Seasons I've ever attempted to watch from start to finish (I'm a Brit, so a series to us is 6-8 episodes. Then we generally get 2-3 series and a special or two, that's easily doable in 3-4 sittings, I'm not used to this kinda stuff, so it seems like a really, ludicrously huge thing to be doing,) and I'm not firmly stuck within that world, having gone so far to have changed my middle name on facebook to "Mulder" and having bought the "I WANT TO BELIEVE" poster, I really don't wish to imagine how I will feel when it's all over. *Sigh*

Guess I'll start The Wire after that, I hear great things.

 

[Nimcha]

Friends. I watched all 10 seasons in the space of two weeks, and by the end of the last episode I was bawling my eyes out :'(

 

[ultrachicken]

Code Geass, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Clannad all gave me PSD.

 

[theComposer]

This usually doesn't happen to me if the series ends in a way that ties up the plot satisfactorily. I've seen The World Ends With You and Avatar: The Last Airbender (the show) mentioned, but they ended after a great ride before they overstayed their welcome, and I'm perfectly fine with that.

What did give me a major case of PSD was Firefly and Serenity. I only saw both recently, so even though I didn't experience the cancellation first-hand, seeing the greatness and potential of the series and then realizing that it would never be fulfilled nearly killed me. Serenity was especially painful, because although it was meant to give Firefly fans more of what they wanted and maybe some closure, it definitely didn't do the latter and just felt out of place, like it should've come after several seasons, not 14 episodes. Man, just thinking about this has got me down again.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Read the Night Angel trilogy. Once you realise that it's all over, it's very sad.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

Yeah I got that from Red vs Blue and Boston Legal.

 

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Read the Night Angel trilogy. Once you realise that it's all over, it's very sad.

Quoted for truth.

Along with so many other books: A Song of Ice And Fire, The Liveship Traders, Maximum Ride, Assassin's Quest, The Named, Myrenn's Gift, Chronicles of the Black Company...

Just too damn many to name, those are solely what I can see from where I'm sitting, and just the first few at that.

Recently I got into anime/manga:

I was originally a hater, a full on "LOL IT'S A CARTOON" hater. Sorry.
A friend linked me the first episode of Claymore one Friday evening, and twisted my arm into watching it...

I cannot recall doing anything else during that weekend.

Within the first day (through into the morning of the second, I suppose) I had watched all 26 episodes of Claymore itself, by the end of Saturday I had finished what had currently been written in the manga. It took all of Sunday's tireless searching to finally realise that that was all there was, it was over.

Due to my calculated and apparently cynical idea of human existence itself - which contrasts like black on white with the world of Claymore - I actually became clinically depressed for a while afterwards: real life is gonna be shit in comparison.

It took a while to recover from this realisation, and I don't think I'll ever recall what was originally so exciting about existing here on Earth at all...

 

[Nomanslander]

Welcome to the NHK.

I practically promised myself the next time I watch it I would have taught myself Japanese. Which I'm planning to do anyways.