IT WAS an entirely unsatisfactory, yet wholly fitting end to what had come before.
A wholly unsatisfying end.
With almost all degrees at the LSE, student assessment is based wholly on end of year exams - no coursework, no mid-year exams, and no room for failure.
Nathan Rabin, exercising admirable magnanimity in the Dissolve, meanwhile, observes that " 'R.I.P.D.' begins from a place of endless possibilities and imagination, then follows the breadcrumbs of formula to a wholly generic end".
Everyone you know and love will eventually be forgotten and rot silently in the ground where they will, if they're lucky, help feed the roots of a tree that will rot and die itself, and on and on until the sun someday explodes and swallows the Earth in a fiery, violent, wholly meaningless end.
The film has many problems, not least some of the bizarre casting decisions, but the final scene featuring Kurgan and McLeod battling to be the final immortal is beautifully shot, and provides a wholly satisfying ending to the film, and what would arguably have been a fine ending to the franchise as a whole.
Raised from the merely formulaic by Freeman's emotional literacy, sense of place and an uncanny ability to wrong-foot the reader and produce a wholly unexpected ending, The Burying Place is far more than the sum of its parts.
This book was conceived of as a piece of work, but the professional project is, in the end, wholly subsumed by a floodtide of personal crises that leave the author gasping for air.
A final word about Anna and Bates, who are plunked back into the same kind of silence and mutual misunderstanding that defined their early relationship and which seems to be driving them inevitably toward a wholly evitable bad end.
For all of her increasingly dodgy ethics, did anyone else quite relish Claudia being able to say she was, in fact, head lawyer having been told by Peter and Mark to fetch "him" and bring some coffee (even if the exchange didn't end wholly rosily for her).
