Which TV character's death moved you the most?

I'm pretty sure I saw that one in syndication at least once.

That episode "ruined" Futurama for me for years. Every time I tried to watch the series, all I could think of was that dying dog

 

Wallace, season 1 of The Wire.

Lots of characters die on that show, many of whom I liked more than Wallace, but that one was hard.

 

Jenny and Tara on Buffy. The first utterly horriffic, the second utterly tragic.

 

Henry Blake's death affected me deeply because I was so young when I first saw it on tv and had never even thought of death or what it means before that episode.

The other one for me was Joyce Summers from Buffy. It was such a powerful episode. Very raw and real.

 

Just saw that ep on the DVD set a couple of months ago.

I was bawling at the end of that! Come on, man, this is a comedy show, you're not supposed to make me cry!

 

Another television character who died in a film.

I didn't care for the film as a whole, but the character's death really shook me. And a large part of it was in what it represented. It not only marked an end to an era, but it was also totally pointless.

The death of Captain Kirk made me equally sad and angry.

 

Likewise Wash and Book in Serenity.

 

Kate Todd Agent Lee and Paula Cassidy also there was Jenny Shepard

 

Didn't The Bill blow up the station like 3 or 4 times, coincidentally whenever they wanted to introduce a new set?

 

Mrs. Landingham from The West Wing. All our family was quite shocked. The series was quite popular at the time as was that character. I remember reading that it affected a lot of people in D.C. too.

When she popped up again in a flashback later on, I gasped.

 

"Two Cathedrals" is one of the greatest television episodes ever.

 

In the second season premiere of L&O they killed off Max Greevey, but since the actor didn't want to return to do that one scene, they did it in an interesting way: all you could see was Max working on his car (from the POV of his wife who was inside the house) and barely see the guy come up and shoot him. The whole scene is basically told by Max's wife and Mike Logan who was talking to her on the phone. You hear his wife go "Oh #%#*!" and then it cuts to Mike, who yells into the phone "MARIE!!!!!!!"

Also a very powerful scene.

 

I remember watching that when it first aired. It was seriously

 

Dee's death in Battlestar Galactica. Seeing her happy and telling Felix she just wanted to savor the feeling, then, when he leaves, she takes out the gun and shoots herself.

I'm just now getting around to watching The West Wing and though, I knew Mrs. Landingham died, I thought it was later on in the show. "Two Cathedrals" took me by surprise.

"Sleeping in Light" always has me tear up.

Dinobot's death in Beast Wars was really well done. He went out like a badass, got one last quip at Rattrap, and a Hamlet quote to boot!

More recently, Hershel's death, though we all knew it was only a matter of time, just seeing it...

 

Just to be clear for those who don't know, Mrs. Landingham dies in the episode called "18th and Potomac". "Two Cathedrals" is the immediately following episode with the flashbacks and season two finale.

 

Damn, you're right. Though to be fair, her death, if I remember from watching it a few months ago, was revealed in the last few minutes of "18th and Potomac," with the impact of it being revealed over the course of "Two Cathedrals," as President Bartlett tries to come to terms with it.

I'd submit, though, that, as sad as it was to hear she died in "18th and Potomac," it was just shocking. "Two Cathedrals" really made it moving.

 

Yeah. That's the way it went down.

 

The Tenth Doctor, "I dont want to go." Just killed me.

 

Ugh. I loved the Tenth Doctor. But by that point in the episode he'd done so much arm-folding, and leaning, and watching, and sighing, and goodbye-ing that I was like, "Just die already."

 

Tara