in their own way and in a different medium, they are replicating all those romantic symphonies that strive for a 'big finish' so long and overwrought as to leave their audience wrung out with induced emotion. when I hear those symphonies now I experience those climax-piled-on-climax endings as a musical joke instead of a passionate catharsis.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 9 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link