I don't hear anybody claiming that tragic endings are more "artistic", so a rant about how that is a bullshit claim just seems like a strawman argument. Likewise the Moonlighting issue, as that show had nothing to do with tragic endings, and was all about the dangers of building all of your appeal around the hostile interactions of "will they or won't they" sexual tension.
I can believe that somewhere, there are people making these arguments that leaves them open for debate, but I just haven't seen them personally.
> Because every single sentence that follows, as far as I'm concerned, should be tattooed on the inside of every writer's fucking skull.
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> ESPECIALLY with regards to writers who want to maintain endless unresolved sexual tension between Lois and Clark, or Peter and Mary Jane.
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Another point of contention for me is framing so much of the argument around how Joss Whedon chooses to write the stories of characters that *he* created, and the seeming indignity stemming from putting his opinion of where those characters should go above the wishes of certain fans. For comic book characters with a long, pre-existing legacy, there may be some argument there, but for the creator of the characters? I say he gets to tell whatever story he damn well pleases.
