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Perhaps a bit of an unclear question so I'll explain what I mean.
A full conclusion is one where the general plot introduced by the series is fully closed. The Evil Empire is defeated, the lead wins over their love interest. That sort of thing. For instance Avatar the Last Airbender.
However, sometimes works just end--especially older shows often simply stopped rather than having a real finale. The overall plot isn't really resolved--the villain wasn't defeated but also hasn't won, we don't know if the lead and his love interest get together, etc. Any of the many shows that ended without a real finale episode. There's a softer version of this where an episode is intended to be the last one but leaves the overall plot open.
To use theoretical examples for Pokémon, a full conclusion would have Ash become a Master or give up on his goal or make some major change to his life, like settling down from traveling long-term for whatever reason, and Team Rocket as an organization would probably have to be defeated.
The alternate would be it just ends with no conclusion to his "Master" arc. Imagine if, for instance, XY or DP had been the last series with no changes to their stories or the league outcome.
Which do you think will end up happening? I sort of suspect we'll get a proper ending (pre Alola I was leaning towards the latter though).
A full conclusion is one where the general plot introduced by the series is fully closed. The Evil Empire is defeated, the lead wins over their love interest. That sort of thing. For instance Avatar the Last Airbender.
However, sometimes works just end--especially older shows often simply stopped rather than having a real finale. The overall plot isn't really resolved--the villain wasn't defeated but also hasn't won, we don't know if the lead and his love interest get together, etc. Any of the many shows that ended without a real finale episode. There's a softer version of this where an episode is intended to be the last one but leaves the overall plot open.
To use theoretical examples for Pokémon, a full conclusion would have Ash become a Master or give up on his goal or make some major change to his life, like settling down from traveling long-term for whatever reason, and Team Rocket as an organization would probably have to be defeated.
The alternate would be it just ends with no conclusion to his "Master" arc. Imagine if, for instance, XY or DP had been the last series with no changes to their stories or the league outcome.
Which do you think will end up happening? I sort of suspect we'll get a proper ending (pre Alola I was leaning towards the latter though).