What's your opinion on cliffhangers?

Question: Cliffhangers
Choices:
I love the suspense! - votes: 1331 (10.4%)
A necessary evil - votes: 6050 (47.1%)
Why'd you have to end right there? I hate you!!!!! - votes: 4639 (36.1%)
I hate them all - votes: 830 (6.5%)
There were 12850 total votes.
The poll ended: October 8th 2011

Last edited by lambchopsil at 12:46 pm, Oct 8 2011

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No. Just no.
No.

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If I had a fantasy self, it'd be a tentacle monster.

I don't like them but I do... I just can't handle the suspense lol

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Ending on a cliffhanger because a certain element of the plot is way too long to contain in one chapter - fine with me.
Ending on a cliffhanger, then making the next chapter resolve it in like 2 pages - absolute dick move.

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i like them
as long as i cant guess what's coming next

oh no..



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Indifferent. I'm more concerned with how it's resolved.

I do like them (even though they drive me insane waiting for the next installment) but it depends how often they're used and how they're resolved. I hate it when there's a huge cliffie and you think something HUGE is about to happen - the big reveal of a character's secret identity or something - and then the author/writers chicken out. In that case the cliffhanger just seems like a ploy to get you to keep reading/watching even though you're disappointed by the story.

Last edited by mogiks at 5:48 pm, Oct 1 2011

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Yelling "Noooooo! This chapter can't end like this!!" can be cathartic, so it's ok for me.

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I generally hate them. If I know a series has a lot of them, I wait for it to have developed at least one full arc before I start reading it and I read only one full arc at a time to avoid insanity. This doesn't usually work past the first arc or two though.

However, once in a blue moon, when I have nothing else to read, I actively look for a series that has a ton of nasty cliffhangers and read a chapter. I usually regret this since this tends to lead to marathon readings until I finally caught up to the latest cliffhanger. At that point I usually invoke a skyward scream that soulds remarkably like the Rabbids from Rayman.

qft

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Hate them, but they're necessary sometimes if the story gets to be too long.

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If the entire series ends on a cliffhanger, and there is no sequel, then I would cuss.
But otherwise, I don't mind them as much.

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"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth." - Albert Camus

If the series end with a cliffhangers or if they are the same damn cliffhangers then you saw in hundreds of manga then they are really annoying.
Other then that it's necessary to have cliffhangers.

Of course I don't like them, but I understand why they're used and I'm not gonna lie, they can be effective.