Also SPOILERS ahead for a few books a couple tv shows and a movies. Read the titles and movie past if you haven't watched or read them. THAR BE SPOILERS AHEAD!
The changed love interest being "enough" the same has irked me for a long time.
Knight in Shining Armor and Remembrance by Jude Deveraux.
One of the first times I remember being aggravated by it was when I read 2 Jude Devereaux books. I am a fan of hers and have read most of her books about the Montgomerys and later the Taggerts. But when I read Knight in Shining Armor where the main protagonist and her love interest Nicholas travel through time to each other, I loved the story--until the end. She shoots back to the future by herself and she reads that he lived a much longer life than her did before she went back to him and then died a long time before she was born. But Lo! and behold. She meets a perfect stranger that she's drawn to and he seems drawn to her and she knows that he the reincarnation of Nicholas and they sit together. The end. What?! That's it. Muther fluffer! I got past that book and then read Remembrance. This time she travels to 2 past lives and is able to help the her of the more recent past break a curse between her and the soul mate. She doesn't get to stay with that guy nor the original that we fall in love with. Nope. We shoot to the future and she meets a random stranger and knows it's her soul mate. The End. WTF!!! Come On Jude. Stop messing with my emotions.
Neither of these contemporary men are the guys that she fell in love with. They don't have a shared history of experiences that make a couple. This is some forced "Magic" love crap.
Forever, Forever and Always, and Always by Jude Devereaux
Anyway, years later, after reading many more good books by Jude, my husband picked up a new series from her for me: Forever (the first in a trilogy Forever and Always)
. The first book was great. The main protagonist is cute and causes problems with her naivete and curiosity and the love interest, Adam, is hard, serious and smart. But they work together and grow together until they beat the bad witch, save his sister and fall in love. Then the next 2 books came out and all the people she cares about disappear and no matter how hard she tries with her powers she can't find them and she's told she never will. So--she goes back saves Adam, his sister and their parents and none of the bad crap ever happened and she meets him and they flirt and talk. She has her happy Adam back. The end...
...Whaaaat? It's not her Adam. None of the stuff that made him her Adam happened and none of the things they went through to make them a couple happened. He. Is. Not. The. Same. Man. Period.
Teen Beach Movie a Disney Original
I was more recently reminded of this with a cute Disney Original movie I saw this past summer called "Teen Beach Movie" In the movie, the quiet girl meets a surfer guy who is obsessed with a certain old teen movie. They watch and he discusses it with her, then they go surfing together and a storm blows then around and they land on a beach. They realize their in the movie. He is ecstatic and joins in. She joins in more cautiously. They inadvertently make changes to the movie and they have to make the ending happen or the don't go home. They do it and say goodbye to their new friends. Then they get back home and have become close because of their experience. Aw. How cute. Good ending.
So of course the writers made a decision:
They made Teen Beach Movie 2
And now the two characters from the movie come to the real world and biker girl doesn't want to go back. But they become more real as their friends in the movie begin to vanish. They have to go back, not only to save the movie friends but to keep the timeline in the real world the same because if their was never a beach movie, the two protagonist would never meet. The characters make it back, but the biker girls changers her story and the real world lovers never met/talked about the original movie/had an adventure/ or fell in love. But don't worry. At the end they meet each other at an anniversary showing of the movie and dance together while biker girl winks at them from the big screen. The end.
No. Just No. It is not ok. It is Not Happily Ever After. No. It's a first cute-meet. That's supposed to happen earlier in the story. They are not the same as they were after their adventure, Damnit!
I really hoped they would make a #3 to fix it, but nope. That's it. grrr.
Ya'll need to just stop doing this to me.
The Passing group: The Vow and Bring it On Ghost!
There are a couple that sorta crawl under the radar because of Loopholes. One is The Vow. There is no bringing her back, but they show that in the aftermath. They do not get along. All he knew about her is gone and she doesn't know him. There is no fix and they break up. But then they both choose to date the new them and they start fresh with a first date. I'm okay with it because they both know that it is not the same and they are willing to get to know each other in this knew phase.
The other is a cute Korean show I just watched called Bring it On Ghost!
Through 75% of the show she's a ghost and they go through a lot together including falling in love. But she's not actually dead--she's in a coma. Yay! But she doesn't remember him. BOO! And she never fully remembers everything, but she has enough flashes to show her she can trust him and he stays by her side and re-acquaints himself with her. And they build a new relationship together. So--I would have preferred she remembered everything, but, I guess I can deal with the ending.
Otherwise. Seriously. Stop doing this.
What about you? Any stories like this that drive you Batty?
Do you like these types of endings? What are your thoughts?
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