Hi, I'm Dispatches from Elsewhere. You may know me as a brilliantly clever series with an intricate story and interesting characters, but now that we're at the end I just want to let you know that everything I made you care about was BS.
That intricate plot? Meaningless. Never really happened. Just something I made up. Let me repeat that: I made this up. Look how smart I am! This is all pure imagination, see.
Those characters? They aren't real. I mean, obviously they're not real, it's a drama, but they're also not real in the drama. Did you care about them? Again, that was me. Me making you care about people who weren't real. And now I just want to make clear that you cared about non-existent people and even within the confines of the series they are nothing and thus there is no resolution possible.
Yes, I know what you wanted. You wanted an ending that wrapped up the practical and existential mysteries of the series in a satisfying way. But you know what? That's really hard. It's like, you ever try to write a limerick? The first 4 lines are super easy, but then you have to prove you were actually going somewhere and it all falls apart. So that's what happened to me. I made this whole world and then it was just too hard to wrap it up so instead I created a self-congratulatory trifle that isn't what anyone wanted.
And hey, I gave you some good stuff in the end. The whole thing with the kid was pretty WTF but kinda cool, right? And I even did something like the surreal main plot, except less involved, less interesting, and what was the point of that whole videogame thing, anyway?
Yes, I could have had a better ending. Maybe if my writer had talked to a few talented people who were good with endings he could have done better, but then he couldn't give that final speech to remind you that it's all him and then show you everyone else to remind you what a great, generous guy he is and give you a moral to let you know that he's such a great guy that he cares about all of you.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed all the good episodes. Sorry for this one.
That intricate plot? Meaningless. Never really happened. Just something I made up. Let me repeat that: I made this up. Look how smart I am! This is all pure imagination, see.
Those characters? They aren't real. I mean, obviously they're not real, it's a drama, but they're also not real in the drama. Did you care about them? Again, that was me. Me making you care about people who weren't real. And now I just want to make clear that you cared about non-existent people and even within the confines of the series they are nothing and thus there is no resolution possible.
Yes, I know what you wanted. You wanted an ending that wrapped up the practical and existential mysteries of the series in a satisfying way. But you know what? That's really hard. It's like, you ever try to write a limerick? The first 4 lines are super easy, but then you have to prove you were actually going somewhere and it all falls apart. So that's what happened to me. I made this whole world and then it was just too hard to wrap it up so instead I created a self-congratulatory trifle that isn't what anyone wanted.
And hey, I gave you some good stuff in the end. The whole thing with the kid was pretty WTF but kinda cool, right? And I even did something like the surreal main plot, except less involved, less interesting, and what was the point of that whole videogame thing, anyway?
Yes, I could have had a better ending. Maybe if my writer had talked to a few talented people who were good with endings he could have done better, but then he couldn't give that final speech to remind you that it's all him and then show you everyone else to remind you what a great, generous guy he is and give you a moral to let you know that he's such a great guy that he cares about all of you.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed all the good episodes. Sorry for this one.
