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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GSHamster" data-source="post: 3793553" data-attributes="member: 20187">Endings are important.  Things need to end, before you can really judge them. Endings provide closure and completeness.  They give meaning to what has gone before. Think of all the movies with great endings, or those with absolutely horrid endings.Lord of the Rings is a very different book because of its ending. What happens on Mount Doom is pivotal to the story, and makes the rest of book better. What would Casablanca be without its ending?  A Shakespearean play without the final act?Imo, this is a weakness of most comic books.  The best comic books are those which end, which tell a complete story.  Watchmen and Sandman, for example.The problem with Robert Jordan was that he could not end things.  Even plotlines within the series that should have ended (Faile/Perrin) kept on going.And I'm saying that as someone who liked the series, who thought the idea of a hero who didn't moan about his fate, but went out and prepared for the final battle by conquering the known world was an amazing breath of fresh air.</blockquote>