I love Fantasy stories, movies, games and books... but why do most of these always start to go downhill? The magic starts to die, people start die, everything that made it what it was dies...

 

(Harry Potter SPOILERS)

Look at Harry Potter, it started out as a magical journey, for all-ages. A movie that filled my hopes and dreams as a kid... then it started to get dark and violent... they killed his uncle... Dumbledore... then most of the people at the school and other major characters. Blood started to appear more often, such as bad language and disturbing images... Started to dislike the series after fourth book and hated it after Dumbledore's death.

 

(Chronicles of Narnia SPOILERS)

Narnia was another of my childhood favorites. A world filled with magic and... Aslan *_* ! It was so amazing! I instantly fell in love with the first movie, but then all of it was kind of destroyed on the second movie/book, but not entirely. I must say that the big PROBLEM in here was the last book - where everyone, except for Susan, dies a horrible death on a train wreck and then Aslan tells them that he's Jesus of some kind and that Susan was a sinful woman.... C.S Lewis was drunk.

 

 

I can't remember of more books/series right now, but most of them end the same way. Why?

 

Same thing happens to games... I hope Kingdom Hearts doesn't follow this.

Edited August 30, 201411 yr by Marcomax

they killed his uncle

Killed his uncle?Vernon Dursley went on to live a very successful life- he opened a pastry shop and was even elected to the British Parliament

It's known as progression. Why do you think some anime, like FMA (It does start out dark, but gets even darker) follow that same thing?

 

There has to be a climax for a story to grab the reader's interest. Harry Potter gets darker because as they reach said climax, worse and worse things happen to prepare for it. People start dying as Voldemort builds power to return. The climax is the peak, the biggest most dramatic point in the story. All stories have to have it, or else there is no reason for progression at all. While getting dark isn't always a necessity, it shows for one how bad things have gotten, and at some point the darkness goes away, and the author can show how well their characters have evolved after conquering the dark part of their lives.

Depends on what you are reading. Long children fantasy gets darker as it progresses since people grow up. It helps keep the audience through the books I find.

You do know that there are spoiler tags, right?

Anyways I didn't think the ending of the Chronicles of Narnia was that dark. I mean yes what you said happened. Though I feel like it was supposed to be a slight bit of a bittersweet ending, though I do feel like the last book could have done with being longer.As others have said some of it is to build up tension, and some of it is to grow up with the kids. Because the older the kid is the more likely they are going to able to handle something "dark". And you can use a book getting "dark" to teach a lesson to those willing to listen.

Killed his uncle?Vernon Dursley went on to live a very successful life- he opened a pastry shop and was even elected to the British Parliament

Not that one! Sirius Black!