An event or moment · 2019 · Television
The finale nobody wanted
Six million people remain in a public argument about characters who no longer exist, for years, entirely in good faith.
A parasocial relationship conducted in public with complete strangers, where nobody is pretending and everybody is sincere. It is also the largest documented instance of viewers disagreeing about a shared fiction as if it were a shared fact.
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The finale study1980 → M*A*S*H1983 → The finale that moved the schedule2023
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Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- retrievable'The Iron Throne', 19 May 2019, became the least-watched episode of the series it finished - a finale whose audience was actively hostile to it, and whose coffee cups became a small consumer-protection storyThe Iron Throne (Game of Thrones) (Wikipedia). ↗
CHARACTER The written character
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The character deathcites · 1994 · A mechanism or tacticThe season finalecites · 1980 · A mechanism or tacticThe character deathcites · 1994 · A mechanism or tactic
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