A good play comes in 3 acts.

Act 1: Get to know the characters and the setting and the rules of the game.

Act 2: Evil wins, good loses. There is no hope.

Act 3: Pull a Deus Ex Machina out of your butt and see evil get destroyed and the heroes come back to life!

The Greeks understood this pattern so well they gave it a name: "COMEDY"

A "TRAGEDY" on the other hand is much more serious:

Act 1: Get to know the characters and the setting and such.

Act 2: Bad stuff happens.

Act 3: Everyone dies.

We were told how many times that this is a movie?

We just witnessed the end of Act II. Think: Empire Strikes Back is now done. What comes next? Return (Revenge) of the Jedi.

Act III starts off slow. At first, you see that the heroes weren't actually all killed. They are in hiding, moving around, doing things. Then the bad guys start to realize that their victory from Act II wasn't as definitive as they thought. They forgot a few key facts, misunderestimated (thanks Bush II) the good guys, and now they are scrambling to reinforce the victory from Act II.

What happens next is the heroes rise up and challenge the villains in mortal combat, on the battlefield of THEIR choice. One by one, they defeat the villains until they fight the ultimate villain and conquer him, often with his one weakness.

Take hope, friends! Now you know what Job felt like. Now you know what the saints felt after watching the Messiah hang on a cross and die. Now you know the bitter, bitter taste of defeat.

But you know what? You've already won, and you don't even know it.