Talk:Lost Episodes/@comment-26054278-20150221225325/@comment-1216259-20150505021129

I agree about this being subjective, at best. When I look back into the story's context, your complaints don't really make much sense, & they make even less sense in light of the glowing praise that you gave Autopilot.

"Sid showed that he hated the happy endings and he liked the new and more dark endings, so it makes perfect sense that he would put himself in one of the happiest environments ever (sarcasm)."

Yes, actually, the story also said that Sid's favorite material was cartoons.

"Secondly, where is his motivation? Sid was just shown to be obsessed with doing this whole thing with tapes and maybe a bit insane, but they never suggested him wanting to essentially kill himself and (possibly) his parents."

It's weird that you would make this complaint considering you praise the author of Autopilot for not having the speaker directly say everything. The point is that Sid is becoming withdrawn from reality & identifying more with his fantasy world. Killing his parents could either be a utilitarian tactic to keep them from stopping him, or just more of his obsession with gore & inability to distinguish fantasy & reality. Of course, essentially downloading his brain into a tape ensures that he can keep doing what he loves forever, without pesky concerns like eating & sleeping.

"Lastly, this twist would never, ever work in reality. Why would they have a sign saying a bank bought the property and yet allow all their stuff to remain there, leave the power on, and not even bother to investigate the house or conduct any search for these dead people? It makes no sense, and completely makes this story fail."

The ending does say that everything will come to light when the bank comes to investigate the house. As for the power, it's implied that whatever Sid did to himself is responsible for keeping everything up & running, something which is corroborated in the story's sequel when Sid turns out to be able to act from within the tape.

The Star Wars and BO paragraphs fit just fine within their respective sections, so I don't even see what the complaint is. So what if those sections could be shortened slightly, it's bad writing to elaborate on what the speaker is trying to get across using examples? What?

"The thing about other stories is that while they have that supernatural element in them, they usually do not have plotholes."

Yeah, I HIGHLY disagree with that. It's virtually impossible to have a scary story with a supernatural element that I don't see some logistical problem with. That's the rub with the supernatural, having something that can interact with nature enough to be perceived by some random schmucks but yet most of the world doesn't know about it is a concept which inherently does not make sense. So you have to suspend your disbelief.

"Autopilot is grounded in reality and could actually happen. Just an example."

Yeah, you give this ending such high praise, but how is "My phone is on the counter and my daughter is dead" any less silly than Sid being a cartoon?

"Could happen"? I guess technically, it's physically possible, but it's still not that likely. Either way, I think that's a poor reason to consider it the better ending.