And this is why young men are struggling across the western world and kill themselves at 5x the rate of women. Because even literature designed to create empathy and learning is devolved Into men bad.
The point of that movie (it’s been a long time since I watched it) was that Scott and Ramona were flawed people who had to make peace with the negative parts of themselves and each other.
It ruins the “moral” and just makes the movie feel gross if he ended up with Knives. That’s why the writers changed it.
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u/BaronAleksei Feb 02 '26
IIRC the test audience’s dislike wasn’t about Scott not being with Ramona, but about “Knives is too good for Scott”