Never Finished?

Hi All! Happy Wednesday. I hope all of your weeks are going well. My Dad and I talked about our favorite books and endings the other day. My Dad made a comment that’s stuck in my head.

He doesn’t finish a book he loves because he doesn’t want it to end.
That surprised me, and I didn’t have a response, so we moved on to other topics. But I wondered, was there ever a book I loved so much that I never wanted to finish it because then it was over?

Really it didn’t make sense to me because I have to know how all the loose ends will tie-up. I have to know everything will work out in some way.

But then I realized I do a similar thing for TV shows. I can’t finish BBC’s Merlin because I don’t want to watch Arthur die. White Collar, NCIS, Burn Notice I just started watching a few years ago, but I go through spurts of watching and still haven’t finished. I finished Friends and Gilmore Girls but Friends more just finished because I was so close and didn’t realize how few episodes were left. Gilmore Girls, the ending I wanted to tie things up, which it did but still never felt satisfying.

I love Firefly, but it finished in a movie. I recently watched the original Star Trek and Star Trek Next Generation, and I enjoyed them. Still, the endings didn’t do much for me. I believe the original Star Trek wrapped up in a series of movies.

As I’m listing all the TV shows I’ve caught up on since Netflix and other streaming services came out. I get why my Dad isn’t finishing his books. Terrible endings to a form of literature you enjoyed are the worst. Maybe that’s why I’ve started stopping watching shows halfway through their life. I don’t want to be disappointed in the end.

So do you ever want to not finish a storyline because of how it ends? Or it might end?