The book, film or show you finished purely out of stubbornness, and whether it paid off

[Ivory Boar]

Not everything we finish, we finish because we loved it. Tell us about the time you pushed through a book, film or show purely on stubbornness, refusing to be beaten by it even though you were not enjoying it, and the honest verdict on whether that stubbornness was rewarded or simply wasted

The reasons for the stubbornness are often more interesting than the content itself, sometimes it is pure pride, refusing to let a story defeat you, sometimes it is a nagging feeling that everyone else got something you were missing, sometimes it is simply sunk cost dressed up as determination

The genuinely useful split here is between the stories that rewarded the persistence with a late payoff that justified the whole slog, and the ones that simply ended, offering nothing for the suffering, because telling those two experiences apart in advance is basically impossible and that is exactly why this is a gamble worth discussing

So share yours, why you refused to quit, and whether the ending earned the stubbornness or just confirmed you should have abandoned it hours earlier, and the harder confession, the one you are STILL grinding through purely out of pride with no real hope left

[GlassyCandle]

Pushed through a famously slow classic purely out of pride after a friend said I would never finish it, the last quarter turned out to be genuinely brilliant and completely recontextualised the slog, stubbornness paid off handsomely that time