These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'
You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
I like happy endings.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.