Yeah that was great. And aside from being a very touching trbute, one of things I remember the most about it was noticing that Max Gail didn't have his hairpiece on!
Best TV character deaths (Major spoilers, obviously)
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Yeah that was great. And aside from being a very touching trbute, one of things I remember the most about it was noticing that Max Gail didn't have his hairpiece on!
You'd also have to eliminate Trip's death, or at least have him not randomly die as an afterthought for nothing.
Here is a few more:
1 The Sopranos mob guy who died on a toilet. I mean nobody had any emotional investment in the character but you just don't see people die on toilets on tv. There is something both tragically sad and funny about it. Also I think it speaks to a deep fear everyone has. Nobody wants to go out that way. I would put it right up their with the fear of being barried alive in terms of fears we have even though logically we know neither thing is likely to happen to us.
2 Everyone at the end of "Lost." I don't care what anyone says. I found it very emotional to see them all together before they go to heaven or the great beyond or who knows where. I really enjoyed how the show ended.
3 Cally being killed by Tory on "Battlestar Galatica" Nobody deserves to die being sucked out of airlock while your murderer is holding your baby. All this while your no doubt confused because of the illness she was having in that episode.
4 William Baldwin's character being killed on "Homicide:LIfe on the Streets" It has been awhile since I saw the episode but I do recall them finding his body with head blown off and I think they were trying to find out if he killed himself or someone murdered him. I kind of forget what the answer was.
Jason
1 The Sopranos mob guy who died on a toilet. I mean nobody had any emotional investment in the character but you just don't see people die on toilets on tv. There is something both tragically sad and funny about it. Also I think it speaks to a deep fear everyone has. Nobody wants to go out that way. I would put it right up their with the fear of being barried alive in terms of fears we have even though logically we know neither thing is likely to happen to us.
2 Everyone at the end of "Lost." I don't care what anyone says. I found it very emotional to see them all together before they go to heaven or the great beyond or who knows where. I really enjoyed how the show ended.
3 Cally being killed by Tory on "Battlestar Galatica" Nobody deserves to die being sucked out of airlock while your murderer is holding your baby. All this while your no doubt confused because of the illness she was having in that episode.
4 William Baldwin's character being killed on "Homicide:LIfe on the Streets" It has been awhile since I saw the episode but I do recall them finding his body with head blown off and I think they were trying to find out if he killed himself or someone murdered him. I kind of forget what the answer was.
Jason
Daniel Baldwin, not William.
Anyway, Felton was executed by the kingpin of an auto theft ring who found out that Felton was an undercover cop, and then staged the murder scene to look like a suicide.
Even though off-screen, how about Bleeding Gums Murphy from "The Simpsons"? Lisa finds him in the hospital. Later she goes back to see him and finds out he died.
Even though a very brief appearance, I like how this actor died/acted his death in the episode "Chato" of the TV series "Gunsmoke". One of the series best episodes, guest starring Ricardo Mantalban (Khan).
1:28 in.
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Even though a very brief appearance, I like how this actor died/acted his death in the episode "Chato" of the TV series "Gunsmoke". One of the series best episodes, guest starring Ricardo Mantalban (Khan).
1:28 in.
(Link for those who can't see embedded Youtube links: youtube.com/watch?v=pEQtQHMf6Xc)
Speaking of that--Dan Turpin's demise was up there.
My only problem with the way the flash-sideways ended was that they were set up to be something a little more interesting than that. I don't have any problem with the idea of them all creating a staging area for the next step to find each other.
Technically, for many of the characters we do not actually see the deaths, we just knew they died at some unspecified point in between the end of the main thread and the start of the flash-sideways.
I agree somewhat. It is kind of weird to understand how the sideways word works. Is everyone their just a hologram for the lack of a better word. Not real or is everyone their basically a real person who are coming to terms with their own life as well. Is Jack's son real on any level? Maybe some people like Jack's sons are kind of like angels. What happens after all the "Lost" people disapear. Does Ben have to explain why the gym teacher is no longer showing up for work.
Jason
I'm not sure what all the extras in the world were. An interesting case is Anthony Cooper, where he's there but he's a vegetable. Like, he needed to exist there to fulfill John's need to grow up with a father, but his soul couldn't be there because he's so evil, so John gets the memories of growing up with a loving father, but in the present he's just a prop.
Characters like Jack's son and all other people never seen in reality, I would guess he's just a projection. As for Martin Keamy, Mikhail, people who died in the sideways-verse, probably same case as Anthony Cooper, soulless projections of themselves, there because Sayid needed bad guys to kill in self defense.
There's also some weird questions like, what qualifies you to get into the Good Place in this world? Michael kills Anna Lucia to save his son, then sacrifices himself to save everybody who survived the freighter, he wanders the island forever. Ben murders many many people, traps and enslaves many many other people, all for his own selfish desires, then spends presumably a couple centuries second in command in the Hurley dynasty and all is forgiven. And other people absent from the Good Place, Eko and Richard, people who did nothing as bad as Ben. (I'm skipping Walt because his absence was related to the height of the actor).
Characters like Jack's son and all other people never seen in reality, I would guess he's just a projection. As for Martin Keamy, Mikhail, people who died in the sideways-verse, probably same case as Anthony Cooper, soulless projections of themselves, there because Sayid needed bad guys to kill in self defense.
There's also some weird questions like, what qualifies you to get into the Good Place in this world? Michael kills Anna Lucia to save his son, then sacrifices himself to save everybody who survived the freighter, he wanders the island forever. Ben murders many many people, traps and enslaves many many other people, all for his own selfish desires, then spends presumably a couple centuries second in command in the Hurley dynasty and all is forgiven. And other people absent from the Good Place, Eko and Richard, people who did nothing as bad as Ben. (I'm skipping Walt because his absence was related to the height of the actor).
Yep. He memorably drops dead of a heart attack while strolling up to the farm
house. We even see his funeral afterwards.
"All my power . . . and I couldn't save him," etc.
Actually, Clark had prodded Pa into jogging.
It really was. That whole part of the film is outstanding IMO.
I'm not an Enterprise fan, I just saw the 3rd and forth seasons of the show for the first time last year. That was AWFUL, just completely random, his sudden stupidity got him killed. It made no sense at all.
Quite so.
He holds one arm with kind of a bewildered, then worried look. Good old Glenn Ford. When I was a kid, I thought he felt his arm for a pulse and there was none, not knowing pain down the arm was a sign of heart attack.
