qaf ending article

[anyusa0030.livejournal.com]

there was an article that one of the writers of qaf wrote to try and explain the ending to the fans who were not so happy about it,i saved it but somehow have lost it.the article talks about the five kind of love,the plutonic,romatic,self and so forth.if anyone have this saved or have a link ,i would really greatful thanks.there is also an interview with the producers about the ending.


thanks a lot guys it turned out it was in my lj,din't that make me feel 101 yrs old.there are a lot of interviews in the comment some of which have never read so i will get to them BUT the one i was looking for is in anyusa0030 link.

Comments

[mightye.livejournal.com]

oooh i would definetely like to read that article, as a recent fan i've read and heard some of the rumors/accusations/urban myths/etc that went with the series ending but never quite grasped the whole ending issues that some fans have...

QaF interview - May 2010

[rockie2010.livejournal.com]

http://bjfic.livejournal.com/2528384.html

ETA: Shawn Postoff

http://anyusa0030.livejournal.com/983.html

Shawn @ 2006 QaF Convention Q&A in Toronto

http://gaedhal.livejournal.com/201568.html

Re: QaF interview - May 2010

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, Shawn Postoff...the man who single-handed pissed off the entire fandom. lol I remember reading this years ago and going WTAF!?!?

Re: QaF interview - May 2010

[q-dicted.livejournal.com]

For me, the only ending, or for that matter beginning and middle, that matters is what I as a viewer (or reader) take away from it. If that jives with the creator's intent, cool. For me, just as cool if it doesn't. Isn't that the very best thing about of art?

But the real reason for my post... I have to know. What does the 'A' stand for in your icon??? It's driving me buggy.

Re: QaF interview - May 2010

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE ME.

I wanted to punch Postoff in the throat, really. It was as if he'd forgotten everything that went before. But oh well.

The "A" stands for Actual, as in "What The Actual Fuck?"

Re: QaF interview - May 2010

[q-dicted.livejournal.com]

Ha! I love it. I was thinking 'almighty', but 'actual' - yes. Yes!

On-topic - I am a very late-comer to the show (a little over two years ago now). I believe that's why I have different feelings about how things played out, having watched the whole series through in a very short time, without almost no 'outside' knowledge at all. I see the end differently than most - and that's cool. I completely respect (and almost do not envy) those who had to go through all the bullshit in real time. I think the wait between seasons alone would have killed me, and I'm sure it would have changed my perspective on things.

One thing's for sure - it's kept us here and talking about it more than five years later! That's in no small part thanks to the writers who have kept the characters alive for us, but it's also thanks to an ending that was definitely left open to interpretation. I fucking LOVE this show - and nobody can ever change that!

[wjsc99.livejournal.com]

My high school Creative Writing teacher taught us that if you have to stop and explain your story to more than a few people, you've made a mistake and a rewrite is in order.

No amount of discussion or explanations could make that ending feel any better to me. I refuse to re-watch Season 5, because I know what's coming.

Thank goodness for fanfic!

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Most of us pretty much blew off Postoff's explanation of S5 and Brian in particular. He was so far off the mark it wasn't funny.

I felt the way you did at first. I watched it when it first re-aired, a couple months after the finale. And I was like "WHA!?!?" Then I watched it again, and...still kinda confused. By the time the dvds were available, I snatched it up and watched it carefully. The only thing that really bugged me was that after all they'd been through, the writers saw fit to regress Brian back to S1 Brian, and make the show so political they took away from the story they could have been telling. Nothing wrong with political stories, but they just let it overshadow everything. Very frustrating. I made my peace with it and now it's fine.

[anyusa0030.livejournal.com]

am not with you in this qaf ending is my favourite ending of all time except for er ending.i hated the political staff in season five,i understand why they did it ,it was a finall fuck you to bush adm but i was bored by it it took valid time away from storylines that i cared about.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

I don't hate S5, but it's not my favorite. That would be S3. And I agree that the political stuff was a fuck you to Bush, but yeah, there was so much that could have been told that wasn't. The ending was my initial problem with S5, but they were finally together in the end, even if they were gonna live in different places. I was good with that.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

ITA about the political thing - but what I found the most frustrating thing (and I still haven't come to terms with it), was that having sacrificed any sort of decent character development or even interesting story lines to make their precious political statements - the statements they made were so lame. They lacked any real insight, any new perspective. S5 was basically a season long whine about how straight people hate gays and it isn't fair. Given that they were pretty much preaching at a gay-friendly audience, some ideas about how to change attitudes, how to make an impact on people like Jennifer Taylor; decent people who would probably never have thought about the battles fought by gays and lesbians every day if her son hadn't turned out to be gay - they're the ones who need to be reached. If you could reach even one tenth of the Jennifers in the world, and encourage them to see that no child deserves to be treated as Justin was treated - by his father, his school, the justice system that condoned Hobbs' attack - then you'd a force for change in the world that it would be unstoppable. But in fact there was no sense that they believed it was possible to change attitudes at all. Just that they felt victimised. And seriously, if their belief is that the most important thing the gay community has to aspire to is to be allowed to dance and fuck and drug the night away at Babylon (and that's what I took from the final scene), then maybe they (as in CL) deserve to be victimised.

Sorry, like I said, still bitter.