not another happy ending
karen gillan moves on from amy pond in romantic comedy not another happy ending .
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not another happy ending: a production case study by claire mundell and wendy griffin .
not another happy ending will première at the edinburgh international film festival on sunday, 30 june .
not another happy ending is a romantic drama about a young writer who is attempting to get her first novel published .
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the film' s ending was indeed a happy moment, but not in the intended manner .
families can talk about how not another happy ending portrays the life of an author. why do you think so many movies portray writers as depressive types in complicated relationships ?
impeded by a weak script and poorly - drawn characters, not another happy ended is an all too often muddled and unsatisfying affair .
title not another happy ending. year 2013 distributor (s) kaleidoscope home entertainment classified date (s) 18 / 09 / 2013 main language english submitted run time 101m 57s approved footage 9175 + 8 bbfc reference aff305362 registration number cfj30103
not even the presence of two fine scottish actors, gary lewis (as jane’s dad) and kate dickie, can redeem the whole sorry mess. the film’s ending was indeed a happy moment, but not in the intended manner .
not another happy ending will close the edinburgh international film festival this year, the film’s producers have confirmed. the film, which stars former doctor who companion karen gillan alongside stanley weber, is an indie rom - com set in the scottish city of glasgow directed by john mckay .
it’s not just the protagonist who’s short of inspiration in “not another happy ending, ” a trifling comedy about writer’s block that aims for a blend of richard curtis - style cheeriness and arch literary satire, and winds up mostly drawing a blank. an unusual glaswegian setting and an appealing cast, led by rising star karen gillan as [ … ]
from the early stages of script development, to raising the finance, casting, shooting on location, post - production, and distribution, producer claire mundell and co - producer wendy griffin will talk through their experiences of producing not another happy ending, shot on location in glasgow in 2012 .
unless a rom - com has been written by the king of british romance, richard curtis, uk efforts don’t tend to get a lot of exposure, which is a shame because the glaswegian - set not another happy ending is one of the most enjoyable films i’ve seen from this genre in a while .
karen gillan played jane lockhart. she later played another character called jane in the devil you know .
it’s not his first foray with karen gillan either; while she might be better known for her role as amy pond in aforementioned sci - fi doctor who, for which she finished shooting her final episodes earlier this year, she also played jean shrimpton in mckay’s fashion biopic, we’ll take manhattan. the film premièred on bbc two earlier this year, and it’s their experience that led to her casting in not another happy ending .
one of the more curious aspects of not another happy ending is the journey it made from script to screen, one which mckay credits to its “very clever producer”, claire mundell, who “made it happen by patch - working a bunch of different sources of funding together, none of whom interfered in any kind of way with the way the film turned out” .
it’s not just the protagonist who’s short of inspiration in “ not another happy ending, ” a trifling comedy about writer’s block that aims for a blend of richard curtis - style cheeriness and arch literary satire, and winds up mostly drawing a blank. an unusual glaswegian setting and an appealing cast, led by rising star karen gillan as a ditzy novelist whose reluctant crush on her editor stalls the follow - up to her bestselling debut, combine to wring some charm from a lean premise that inevitably disproves its title. commercially, however, a happy ending for this year’s edinburgh closer may prove elusive even in blighty .
don’t watch not another happy ending expecting anything deep and philosophical. that’s not its intended audience. the film is quirky, light - hearted and fun, made so thanks to a script that is quick in wit and an engaging main protagonist. and in the face of a genre which has been getting cruder with every release, it was nice to sit back and be swept away by an idyllic and romantic glasgow. for once .
the alternate ending was superficial and cliche. the ending they chose was the the perfect ending. it had the right blend of nuance, suprise. it was able to create a magical story, but infuse it with something strangely real. beyond cultural expectations i simply can' t understand why people had a problem with the ending .
he highlights something interesting, though, bringing me back to a conversation i had a few moments after coming out of not another happy ending ’s press screening: what is a “scottish movie”? even institutions like creative scotland seem unclear as to what defines a film as scottish, and especially what distinguishes a scottish film from a british film. i wondered if john mckay could share some insight .
david solomons has been writing screenplays for many years. his first feature film was an adaptation of ‘five children and it’ (starring kenneth branagh and eddie izzard, with gala screenings at the toronto and tribeca film festivals). his latest film is a romantic comedy set in the world of publishing, ‘not another happy ending’ (karen gillan, iain de caestecker), which closed the edinburgh inter
casual smoking a few times; casual adult drinking throughout but not to excess .
sometimes love needs a re - write... novelisation by david solomons (bafta nominated screenwriter of the fabulous bagel boys, five children and it) of the quirky romantic comedy film not another happy ending, starring karen gillan (amy pond in dr who; nebula in the forthcoming marvel movie, guardians of the galaxy), french actor stanley weber (therese desqueyroux, henry v, b
i agree. i don' t really understand the fuss. i loved the storyline. sure, it was sad she died but life is often sad, and happy, just like the ending .
a fabulously fun rom - com about love, sponge cake and the trouble with happy endings! * out now on dvd * is ‘not another happy ending’ as a movie with karen gillan { doctor who star }, which i am now excited to see having read david soloman’s book. this harlequin romance is sassy, sophisticated and full of heartfelt sincerity that will entertain for many hours and leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside. if you enjoy classic chick - lit and humorous stories, such as amanda foreman or trisha ashley et
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john mckay says that he’s “always wanted to make an indie movie in scotland”, and it looks like that aspiration is coming true: set in glasgow, starring doctor who star karen gillan, and funded through contributions from fans, not another happy ending begins shooting in the middle of next month and sounds very promising. we spoke to mckay on the phone earlier today to find out what you can expect from the indie rom - com .
you dont need to be a hater to dislike the ending. it was bad on so many levels
jane is a hardworking and devoted writer who has ethics about her work; her father attempts to reconcile after a long split and abandonment. minor characters are largely selfishly motivated to one degree or another and not particularly compassionate .
ten years ago it would probably have received a warm reception, but there is quite enough misery to be found on the non - fiction shelves just now, so, in fiction, we’re currently very much into happy stories with happy endings .
it is not often that at book based on a screenplay turns out to be a winner, but not another happy ending proved itself to be one of those rare gems. author david solomon also wrote the screenplay for this quirky, set - in - scotland, romantic comedy that pokes fun at the publishing industry, so it is no surprise that the story survives the transition from screen to print. the film / novel tells the story of jane lockheart, a twenty - something aspiring writer and lover of all things miserable, whose no
when did i say that only haters dislike the ending? in fact i mentioned that i realized that there are true fans of the show who really dislike the ending. clearly they aren' t haters .
“i had a blast with karen on we’ll take manhattan, ” he says. “she played shrimpton very well, but shrimpton, in the way i portrayed her, is quite a quiet, intense, introverted person, and when i got to know karen, i got to know that’s not really her at all: she was acting that. actually, karen is a very bubbly, vibrant, energetic, funny, slightly clumsy person, and i realised that the script i had for not another happy ending was a great fit for her. ”
john mckay’s favourite scottish film is local hero, a popular choice amongst locals and outsiders alike, and he attributes that to writer - director bill forsyth’s ability to make “these really charming, smart movies that scots people like, but other people could really get behind as well”, which might explains his enthusiasm for not another happy ending, which he described as “ [ feeling ] much more like the kind of film i like coming out of america or france” .
how far can a film go based solely on the performance of its star? turns out a fair distance if scottish rom - com not another happy ending is anything to go by. doctor who star karen gillan, in her first leading movie role, carries this film by the scruff of the neck with a quirky and well - measured performance as an up - and - coming novelist who' s struggling to get the creative juices flowing on her second book .
ironical title... . completely but then again... . its chick lit! !! i don' t understand why is boy meet girl, they fall in love and lived happily every after concept so appealing to the masses? ?? why couldn' t this genuinely have been a not so happy ending... . the book was going in the perfect direction and then the same cliche ending. loved the style but not so much the story of this one. the narrative techhnique the attention to detailed characterization and all is great but still doesn' t make up for my disappointment in the ending .
certainly, no one seems to have suffered much while making “ not another happy ending ”: gillan and weber have no romantic rapport onscreen, but work with bright professionalism throughout on characters who demand little of them. (“i don’t even know you, ” jane says to tom after an early argument, speaking for the audience in the process .) of the uniformly underwritten supporting roles, ian de caestecker scores most winningly as tom’s cynical but soft - hearted roommate .
the last time i spoke to john mckay, cast rehearsals were just beginning for not another happy ending, as a crowdfunding campaign early in the challenge of financing the film came to an end. mckay enthused at the time about the hot french actor – stanley weber – that he’d picked up to play the male lead, and about co - star karen gillan’s bubbly personality. there was some expectation in my mind that the film would show up at the following year’s edinburgh international film festival .
like an overstuffed soufflã©, however, not another happy ending has a few too many ingredients to really register as a top - tier romantic comedy. plot threads dangle unfinished or underdeveloped, such as jane' s relationship with her estranged father and a newbie author (skins' s freya mavor) getting set up as a potential threat before getting swept under the carpet. naturally there' s romantic tension between jane and tom, but this is never fleshed out in any kind of satisfying way .
it’s a predictable story, i grant you. i doubt anyone reading this synopsis will have any doubt about the film’s end, but considering the conclusion is a) true of most rom - coms and b) what we pay to see, we can let that point slide. what makes not another happy ending more charming than most rom - coms is the fact that it’s relatable, plausible, set in scotland (which makes a nice change), and the chemistry between the two leads is palpable from the beginning .
i go with alt. i' m not even mentioning that the makers packed all the important stuff into 1 episode during the official ending - some comments already cover that. something else is bothering me: although it' s still a bit unfair, that robin didn' t get her chance to be 100% happy, the alt is still more soothing. sometime back i wanted ted and robin together but not like this. the official ending destroyed everything that was built through the series. all this talk about the universe paying back, all this talk about ultimate happiness waiting just around the corner and happy - ever - afters - to - be was flushed down the toilet. yes, ted, wait and suffer, the happiness will come, but then, no, wait, life happens. he still had his kids, but it was all so cruel. same with robin and barney. i rooted for them so much. i thought robin was the one who will make barney ultimately happy, and the other way around. but as it turned out - after they divorced - the only thing that was able to completely satisfy barney was a child. that means robin never had the chance to make him 100% happy. tbh, i hoped her diagnosis would turn out false with barney, and they would have the 2 kids that were shown in one of the robin' s episodes. summary - no happy endings. no happy ending in the show that was all about happy, unrealistic even, endings. i felt so betrayed .
chris fujiwara, artistic director of the festival, added: “speaking as somebody who, before coming to scotland, knew scotland partly through its portrayal in films, i’m really excited to find in not another happy ending a fresh, interesting, and almost idyllic take on the cultural vibrancy of scottish city life. the film also shows how well the time - honoured genre of romantic comedy can work in the contemporary scottish context. the film will add just the right note of celebration with which to close our festival this year. ”
given the cliffhanger we’ve been handed tonight whether laura palmer is really alive or not, and whether that leads to another season, it’s obvious lynch has a hard time quitting the homecoming queen, and moving on to another case. while x - files drew inspiration from twin peaks, it’s an understatement to say that lynch really never wanted to build something akin to x - files with its cases of the week in twin peaks .
ironical title... . completely but then again... . its chick lit! !! i don' t understand why is boy meet girl, they fall in love and lived happily every after concept so appealing to the masses? ?? why couldn' t this genuinely have been a not so happy ending... . the book was going in the perfect direction and then the same cliche ending. loved the style but not so much the story of this one. the narrative techhnique the attention to detailed characterization and all is great but still doesn' t make up for m
“we had a thing going on with not another happy ending in that we were trying to elude the two eminent styles of scottish filmmaking: the gritty, crime - and - drugs movie, and the vain nessie and greyfriar’s bobby movie. there are great examples of both of those movies, it’s just that it’s boring when there’s only two sorts you can make. if i had an ambition for us, it would be: a thousand flowers bloom. i think we should be making all sorts of stories in all sorts of styles. ”
she never should have died and barney and robin never should have divorced. i wrote a song about the crappy ending: urltoken
• david solomons was born in glasgow and now lives in dorset with his wife, author natasha solomons, and young son. his writing credits include screenplays for the great ghost rescue (2011), five children and it (2004) and the fabulous bagel boys (2001). this is an extract from not another happy ending, out now in paperback and published by mira. it is based on solomons’ own screenplay for the film of the same name, rom - com starring karen gilian (doctor who’s amy pond) and french actor stanley weber .
agreed. i don' t mind that the mother dies. what i had an issue with is the robin and ted ending. while this new ending is one i would have rather seen. it doesn' t really explain anything and ignores all those foreshadowing. bays and thomas really just did not know how to end their show after extending it to 8 years .
claire and mark are staying together using the tapes, which was maybe not what was expected. i’ve always liked the realistic, not - so - happy ending for that story, like with the sydney pollack character in husbands and wives who sees them back together and is like, “that doesn’t seem right, ” but it’s real. we had to wrap up so many things in that dinner scene, but we could’ve gone into that in more detail and shown how sad it is that they are back together .
the ending (original and alternative too) of himym was disconnected to the rest of the series. the series was a puzzle, but the puzzle was not solved at the end. they were not able to execute the genre, the authors have created. but that was not the only problem. barney, lily, marshall and even robin were irrelevant in the end. they dismissed the growth of the characters (especially barney and robin, but also lily and marshall) .
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david solomons has been writing screenplays for many years. his first feature film was an adaptation of ‘five children and it’ (starring kenneth branagh and eddie izzard, with gala screenings at the toronto and tribeca film festivals). his latest film is a romantic comedy set in the world of publishing, ‘not another happy ending’ (karen gillan, iain de caestecker), which closed the edinburgh international film festival. my brother is a superhero is his first novel for children. he was born in glasgow and now lives in dorset with his wife (and novelist) natasha, and son, luke .
to say that the finale surprised the heck out of some of the fans is a understatement. i think the finale was original and meaningful, while the fans are displeased because we all wanted the typical fairytale - happily - ever - after ending. i think the fact that so many of the fans felt incredibly sad that the mom died is knowing that we will never have another chance to meet the mom (more), even though the season was clearly ending. i am not pleased by the ending when i first saw it, but i could agreed with bay and thomas by sticking to their decision back when they first decided to film himym. either way, i still love the show very much .
after that, there’s all the endings in a row. what was your thinking behind that — to give everyone a type of happy ending? as is often the case, it seems, we are just making lemonade out of the situation we had. we had so many things we wanted to hit to wrap up this year, and so it kept piling on, and we were like, “this is way too many endings and way too much ending material, ” and then at a certain point, we were like, “okay, let’s lean into that. ” we were never quite sure how much to do that until we got into the edit. we were seeing this constant “one week later, ” “one month later, ” “one year later” being funny to us. i’m happy with the never - ending ending. that ties up what, as a viewer, i want to see .
with her debut novel ,
happy ending
, jane lockhart (karen gillan) pulled off that rare double - critical acclaim and mainstream success. but now, with just the last chapter of the follow - up novel to write, she encounters crippling writer' s block. she has no idea how her story ends... this is not good news for her publisher, tom. his company is up against the wall financially and the only thing that will save him is a hit, in the form of jane' s next novel. when he discovers that his most important author is blocked, tom knows he has to unblock her or he' s finished. everyone knows you have to be miserable to write well, and tom realises that the only way he' s going to get her to finish the novel is to make her life a misery. with the help of his best friend and cynical, child - hating high school teacher, roddy, he sets about trying to dismantle the things in jane' s life that make her happy. meanwhile, jane' s block spirals out of control - to the point where her fictional characters, twiddling their thumbs in the not - happening novel, intrude into her real life. her heroine, darsie, is terrified that jane won' t give her the ending she desires because jane has given up on her own happy ending. will tom, or darsie, manage to get jane writing again, and create a happy ending for everyone ?
i had no idea that this was the book of a film when i picked it up, so i started reading with no precoceptions. half way through i saw that there was a film of the same name, and assumed that the book came before the film. now i know that the film came first, i' m even more impressed. the transition from page to screen, or screen to page, is never an easy one, but although i haven' t seen the film yet, the book of not another happy ending works so well. i read a lot of na and ya books, but i do ha
kaitlin, i agree with your assessment on the alternate ending. usually i have things i want to comment on but i am in total agreement .
not another happy ending is shot beautifully, with ireland as its backdrop. the characters are pretty vivid and quirky but often flat and lacking the necessary chemistry. but the premise here - - of a publisher finagling with his writer' s everyday happiness so she will write better, aka more miserably - - is simply too fantastical to get behind, and it' s a key component to the movie' s major plot. plus, the myth of the depressive author is just that - - a myth - - and here, the genre and its shorthand stereotypes about the writing life are missing the fresh take that might make this more memorable .
the creators forgot they were making a romantic comedy. with a rom com, sure you have heartache and heartbreak, but not at the freaking end! the ending is uplifting, the ending is supposed to give you hope and put a smile on your face. let me ask you this, remember the ending of friends? when rachel was taking a plane to another job and another life and there was a moment of uncertainty about whether she would instead get off the plane and return to the love of her life ross? she did, she got off the plane and the show ended with them together again. but imagine if instead she had decided to leave. or even worse, imagine if the plane had crashed and she had been killed. do you think that friends would still have the enduring cult status it does or would people have turned against it when the 10 years of devotion turned to ashes in their mouths? the creators forgot they were making something that is enjoyable to watch and instead tried to make a drama about how love isn' t what you think it is and not where you look for it. we don' t want realism. we want escapism. we want a goddamn tv show, not real life .
the end was horrible and im still not over it. but not just because of ted and robin. there was sooo much wrong with it. marshall and lily' s story was never really shown. what are the names of their kids? what does lily work as now etc. barney who suddenly acts like 10 years ago and then the most cliche story with the baby... . so at least people got angry about the ending because i bet if that robin and ted scene would have not happened no one would have probably cared that much
ideal ending given the circumstances: the mother dies, the camera cuts to ted saying
and that, kids, is how i met your mother ,
fade to black, cue end credits. no getting back together with robin, no cheesy history montage, just that. though i liked the ending that aired. the final narration in that ending was a perfect summary of the show' s thesis, and didn' t need to be the recap version .
you asked us to complement that list with one like this that counts down happy endings. not just “the show got cancelled and the gay lady was still alive” endings, but truly triumphant story resolutions. lesbian and bisexual characters who received fitting and worthy send - offs that were comparable to the ones the show’s straight characters received .
to the credit of not another happy ending though, karen gillan getting her kit off was less contrived. suffering from writer’s block, jane decides to take her boyfriend’s advice and write in the buff, in the hope it will help free her inhibitions and in turn her mental block. in other words, the perfect set up for tom to walk in and catch her. still, its inclusion does appear to be purely for the purpose of titillation, and therefore gillan’s insistence the experience was actually alright to shoot, is tainted by the disappointment they resorted to that old trick and made her do it in the first place. the film was lovely as it was and didn’t need that addition .
when a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he' s finished. with her newfound success, she' s become too damn happy and she can' t write when she' s happy. the only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he' s in love with her .
parents need to know that not another happy ending is a british romcom about a writer' s maudlin memoir about her father' s abandonment, with brief mentions of her mother' s death and father' s subsequent addiction. it features brief nudity (female rear end, side boob), a few instances of
f - - k ,
profanity throughout, casual drinking, and implied casual sex. it focuses heavily on the isolating writing process, writer' s block, and aspects of being published or having work adapted to the big screen. nothing particularly shocking here, but the language, relationship stuff, and paternal abandonment make it a tad heavy for a romantic comedy and best for older teens .
i hated the original. i agree that bays and thomas never intended for it to end any other way and i wouldn' t be surprised if they scrapped that ending together after the finale wrath. i saw it when it was up and it was super corny but at least it was a happy ending. ted and robin may be happy for some fans, but the divorce and death to get there were very depressing. the show is essentially a romantic comedy and should end that way. the wire could end on a melancholy note because the show definitely wasn' t a ball of sunshine. the tone of the last episode didn' t match the series and that' s why it fell flat to me .
when a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he' s finished. with her newfound success, she' s become too damn happy and he thinks she can' t write when she' s happy. the only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he is in love with her ...
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it may not have the bite of a bridesmaids, but in gillan' s sparky performance there' s enough to keep you engaged for the duration .
tulip talks to god, and it’s not a pleasant conversation, and we learn a little more custer family history in one of season three’s funniest episodes .
seems every one who was outraged - a season later, which can be a lifetime, have cooled their jets and seem content with the ending that aired... .
one thing to keep in mind, is that this was always meant to be the ending. this is ending was created before filming of the show even started, and the scene of the kids calling out ted for being in love with robin was filmed between filming of season 1 and 2. this ending was always the ending they were going to go with, no matter who ted ended up with. that' s why through the entire show it is referenced that ted is supposed to end up with robin; marshall' s
not yet
when robin and barney get engaged, robin' s insistence after the engagement that she' s sure she was supposed to marry ted, ted' s constant return to being in love with robin at least once a season. the creators did all this on purpose, because this was the plan since the show was in development .
the ending has two sections, so let’s first start with the reveal that reagan’s nuclear threat was a trick. how did that come up? my best recollection is that we just did a lot of brainstorming. we knew early on that we wanted this plot involving the nuclear bomb and the president and all that, and somewhere in the earlyish stages of plotting out the season, the idea came up to make it a game, not so much to explain the insanity of it, because there’s plenty of insanity already in whas, but to give it a good ending. i remembered seeing the movie the game by david fincher and i thought the movie was okay, but the ending made it great .
i hate barney and robin’s divorce, i hate it i hate it i hate it. but the main reason i don’t like original ending, is because we don’t know what happens to barney, robin, or marshall & lily. characters we know and love, we never hear from again. they clearly rushed the ending, to finish off the series, instead of how we wanted it, slowly, just like the rest of the series. even if it takes a few more seasons. other than that, the original ending was perfect .
it was so rushed that is seemed like the wrote it in 15 minutes, even though they probably knew this ending 9 years earlier. m & l; never should have gone to italy. it was too predictable that she would get her way and that his judgeship would somehow be waiting for him. i wrote a song about how bad the ending was: urltoken
the printer spewed out another copy of the manuscript, and as she waited for the four hundred pages of her thus far ill - starred debut to stack up she hoisted the sash window, leaned on the sill and took a deep breath .
some people didn' t liked finale coz ppl expects normal and happy ending for all the characters, which actually is far from reality. and if ted & tracy have been together forever, there was no meaning or sense on starting the pilot from the time ted met robin. the finale make perfect sense and even after knowing finale, i love to read repeated telecast. kudos to bays & thomas .
still, the middleton sisters apparently generate millions of clicks, and papers need to be sold. and everyone wants a happy ending. maybe, after the soon - to - be mrs. matthews drifts off into the sunset on her honeymoon this weekend, the feverish interest will die down for a while. until she starts trying for a baby, when the whole circus will begin again. bottoms up !
the series if filled with red herrings so you could never trully say tracy was dying, fake outs are common so why not got the extra mile? also if people where expecting tracy to die... would it be pointless to call it a twist? the ending with bob saget is the perfect book end to the series it' s more even my only regret is they changed the songs in the end, despite how crappy the ending was... those songs where a bright spot in all of this ...
wtf... .. this show had happiest end ive ever seen... .. u need 2 rewatch whole series, not over 9 year period .
i agree that the alternate ending leaves a lot of unanswered questions, like what the heck happened to barney and robin. that being said i have a problem with the entire finale episode not just the ending. they spent season 8 & 9 developing this incredible love story for barney and robin only to squash it in this episode; barney and robin have epic chemistry all through out the season and would have made perfect sense for them to get married. two, they killed off the mother who was actually perfect for ted, with all the build up from 8 seasons; she was accepted and killed at the same time. the season should have had the alternate ending in my opinion, but the story should have also let barney & robin be together .
i think the original ending of the series is perfect. ted' s kids are right - - the show is about ted and robin, so it makes sense that they would end up together. the ending also gives the title of the show another meaning if robin ends up marrying ted. of course, it' s all in the viewer' s imagination, because we don' t know what happens next. but the show is about hope, it' s about letting go of the pain of the past and moving forward and trying to make the most out of each day. that' s what the last season was about also. it was not about robin and barney' s wedding; it was about ted and tracy letting go of the past. it was also about ted still loving robin and loving her enough to let her go. it seems people are upset that the creators had an ending in mind early on and stuck to it. what' s wrong with that? no matter how many seasons the show lasted, they brought everything together in the last season and told the story they wanted to tell. i can' t think of another show as creative and clever and funny. i think people are just pissed it' s over .
the original ending was almost perfect. the only real problem was robin and barney' s divorce. as has been pointed out by others, it completely obviated the progress they both made to be able to commit to one another. i don' t wish to outrage anyone, but wouldn' t it have been a great plot twist if robin and barney got divorced because barney had an epiphany and realized he was gay? they parted as loving friends and no one judged barney badly. robin reconnected with ted as part of the process of dealing with the loss of her marriage. ted and robin fell in love again when they discovered they were ready for each other in ways they had not been ten or fifteen years earlier. i' m not sayin', i' m just sayin' .
“we want audiences to be charmed and leave the cinema feeling great, so it’s fitting that our film will be a very happy finale to what will be an exceptional year at the festival, ” said the film’s producer, claire mundell .
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yeah, the ending shouldn' t have pissed you off as much as the last five seasons. personally i liked the ending because it meant it was over. we should have alternate endings on the nightly news - - wouldn' t that be great? nah, no one was killed in an extremely lucky turn of events. alternate endings... just the way life is ...
it certainly did; it’s nothing other than this year’s closing film, earning it a fancy world première at edinburgh’s festival theatre, with the red carpet rolled out for its stars. “i’m pretty happy with the film, ” says mckay, but it’s hard to believe that’s not an understatement. i asked him if it came out how he expected. “nothing ever turns out how you imagine it’s going to turn out. ”
i felt like the finale, although sad, was fitting for the show. we always knew that ted wasn' t completely over robin, he was successful in creating an organic love with the mother of his kids. this show always did have a tragic feel to it underneath all the laughs, and while i absolutely loved the mother, i was satisfied with the ending. the alternative ending just didn' t pack the emotional punch that the finale did. although i understand why some people either felt cheated or took too much of an emotional hit by the mother' s death, that was a reason why i loved the ending .
you edited it to not have a clear ending? yeah. there were different tweaks we made just to pitch it in exactly the right way, but she does say in the dinner scene, “i’m going to use the money to do something for a friend, ” which to me is an implication that she’s going to spend the money to cure mitch of his canned fate. that’s one possible interpretation .
does this new, alternate ending change my opinion of the finale? no—while it doesn' t anger me as much as ted ending up with robin, it' s essentially a cop - out that doesn' t really commit to anything. do i like it more than the original? sure, in theory. but even though it was (presumably) finished before the series finale aired, it comes off as an attempt to appease fans who felt jilted by the ending that bays and thomas ultimately chose. i can' t fault the folks behind himym for wanting to mend fences, because a lot of fans were very upset by the finale; it potentially
ruined
the series for some people. but i do wonder whether they' d always planned to release this ending, or whether it was included as a dvd extra to soothe the burn .
oh, and by the way, seems like audrey horne is still missing in the netherworld, a white room. that’s another cliffhanger. if you remember at the end of episode 16, she flashed out of the bang bang bar after doing her dance, just as a brawl ensued .
i think we can all admit that the bomb girls movie was a mess, but it did give betty a mostly happy ending. no one knows for sure if kate moved into the house betty bought for her because she finally reciprocated betty’s big gay feelings, but everyone can say for absolute sure that betty bought a house, a thing she’d been trying to do since the very beginning of season one! and she did it by winning a boxing match like a regular ol’ rocky balboa !
okay, i may not actually read this book for two reasons: 1. it is not readily available locally. 2. it turns out that it is a novelization of the movie, when i was hoping the movie was based on a book. i just watched the movie online and it had the feel of an adaptation that maybe had to leave some things out. still, i liked the movie well enough. it was a nice, little, fluffy rom - com. it was relatively clean, though there was one person' s naked backside, but done in a slapstick, funny way, not in
i think they should have added a scene where tracy reminds ted that after her boyfriend max died she learned to love again (with ted) and that she encourages him to do the same. that would soften the ending a bit .
jane lockhart has a whole pile of rejections from publishers. in fact she has them pinned up on the wall and refers to it as her board of pain. however she’s not giving up – although she’s exhausted most of the publishers and agents, she prints yet another copy of her manuscript and takes it to tristesse books, a local publisher in glasgow. it’s owned and run by a frenchman named tom duval who is famous for falling out with authors he’s published. and several that he hasn’t. despite what he sees
'' why is it that the saddest endings always seem the truest? in the stories i told myself i was always the heroine - always reaching for my happy ending.'' this is a delightful, cute, deliciously quirky love story. a story of two young people who are complete opposites. an intelligent and talented writer and an obnoxious, fierce publisher. it is an engaging light read for a bookish person that doesn' t really enjoy romance that much. jane is a wonderful character, her thoughts and motions mirrori
a man punches another in the face, knocking him out and bloodying his nose; a woman imagines banging a man' s head against his typewriter; two men joke about killing a woman' s dog to make her sad; a woman throws a book and an award at a man' s head out of anger .
i had no idea that this was the book of a film when i picked it up, so i started reading with no precoceptions. half way through i saw that there was a film of the same name, and assumed that the book came before the film. now i know that the film came first, i' m even more impressed. the transition from page to screen, or screen to page, is never an easy one, but although i haven' t seen the film yet, the book of not another happy ending works so well. i read a lot of na and ya books, but i do have a penchant for a bit of chick - lit too, which is how i would classify this book. it' s not deep, it' s not going to change anyone' s life, but it is a really good, enjoyable read. the characters are brilliant, which i guess in hindsight may be because they already exist in the film. but they have really been brought to life in the book as well. the story is interesting and fun, and while there' s a certain amount of will - they / won' t - they, it does have a bit of originality to it. you' ll laugh, you' ll cry, you' ll shout at the rude, sexy frenchman, and you' ll inevitably go' ahhhh'. i really, really want to see the film after reading the book, which can only be a rather marvelous endorsement of it .
james matthews was educated at uppingham school but did not go to college, instead initially following his father into motor sports. he then entered a finance career as a trader in london, before setting up eden rock in 2001 .
i never cared why ted was telling the story - to me after nine years all that mattered was seeing the moment
how ted met the mother
. i didn' t care one bit about what happened after that. so after all that build up - they totally ruined that moment by not making it the biggest moment of the show. the sad thing is the exchange between ted and the mother was great but completely tossed aside for another ted still isn' t over robin - just shoot me in the head moment. ruined the entire series for me.
not another happy ending is a 2013 british romantic comedy film directed by john mckay , starring karen gillan , stanley weber and freya mavor . produced by claire mundell and wendy griffin , and written by david solomons , the film premiered at the edinburgh international film festival on 30 june 2013 . it was largely shot in glasgow 's merchant city . 
not another happy ending is a 2013 british romantic comedy film directed by john mckay, starring karen gillan, stanley weber and freya mavor. produced by claire mundell and wendy griffin, and written by david solomons, the film premiered at the edinburgh international film festival on 30 june 2013. it was largely shot in glasgow's merchant city.
not another happy ending is a 2013 british romantic comedy film directed by john mckay, starring karen gillan, stanley weber and freya mavor. produced by claire mundell and wendy griffin, and written by david solomons, the film premiered at the edinburgh international film festival on 30 june 2013. it was largely shot in glasgow's merchant city.