Best TV character deaths (Major spoilers, obviously)
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CSI: NY was mostly forgettable, but there was a plot thread where the young Latina detective was fired and went into the private eye business. Many episodes later they're investigating a corpse burned beyond recognition, and they discover it was her. I was sad.
Speaking of which, Warrick's murder on CSI (prime) was quite a scene. You could see him struggling to stay alive and glowering hatred at the police official who shot him.
Speaking of which, Warrick's murder on CSI (prime) was quite a scene. You could see him struggling to stay alive and glowering hatred at the police official who shot him.
I think the show runners had dumped this fate on Michael, because many of the fans did not like him. And I suspect many of them didn't like him because they regarded him as a "bad" father, instead of the inexperienced parent that he truly was. And I also suspect that they didn't like him because he was more concerned about Walt than the "gang" and was willing to forsake "the gang" for the sake of his son. I've always suspected that a good majority of the "LOST" fandom weren't that fond of characters who were parents - unless they were portrayed as "ideal" parents . . . like the kidnapper known as Kate Austen.
I started watching the show in season 3 so don't know how fans initially reacted to Michael. But I have a feeling the only reason Michael was written out is that the actor who played Walt grew too much to plausibly look like he'd only been there for thirty days. I thought Michael was very sympathetic in season one.
If anyone in the show are bad parents it's Jin & Sun. First Sun left her child to be raised by her gangster father to go back to the island, then Jin died needlessly in a symbolic show of togetherness, consigning his son forever to that fate to be raised by the same man who turned him into a monster.
I also think I read somewhere is the only reason Libby died is the actress had a DUI. She's probably the character who died with the most gaps in her personal history, we never found out why she was in that mental institution or how she got out.
One theory for what determines the eternal fate of souls is less based on a naughty/nice tally and more based on whether they overcame the personal weakness that made them candidates.
If anyone in the show are bad parents it's Jin & Sun. First Sun left her child to be raised by her gangster father to go back to the island, then Jin died needlessly in a symbolic show of togetherness, consigning his son forever to that fate to be raised by the same man who turned him into a monster.
I also think I read somewhere is the only reason Libby died is the actress had a DUI. She's probably the character who died with the most gaps in her personal history, we never found out why she was in that mental institution or how she got out.
One theory for what determines the eternal fate of souls is less based on a naughty/nice tally and more based on whether they overcame the personal weakness that made them candidates.
Thankfully she came back in the comics. She's actually one of the few Angel regulars that's also a regular in the comics. It's basically Fred, Illyria (who is time-sharing Fred's body), Angel of course, and Spike (although Spike is mostly appearing in the Buffy comics, not the Angel comics).
My favorite Kenny death was when he ended up in a persistent vegetative state, allowing them to comment on the Terry Schiavo situation.
But while Kenny died a lot, I think the true death champion is Hyatt from Excel Saga. She died a total of 51 times over the course of only 26 episodes.
I considered mentioning that. Both characters that were killed off on the TV series were killed off without the participation of the actors playing them, yet both deaths were handled pretty well considering that. First you had Crosetti killing himself offscreen at the beginning of Season 3. Then, at the beginning of Season 4, Felton & Bolander were written off offscreen when Munch described an instance of Felton & Bolander going to a policeman's convention in New York, where they got drunk and started running around the hotel naked, leading to them getting suspended for something like 6 months. What's interesting is that Bolander was frequently name dropped for the rest of the season as Munch breathlessly awaited his return only for him to retire instead. Meanwhile, after Felton was suspended, no one ever spoke of him ever again, like they were all glad that he was gone. He wasn't mentioned again until they found his dead body.
The best part of that episode though was when they thought that it was a suicide and then Lewis kinda lost it and wondered aloud if they should all just line up and pop themselves off one by one. It fit with the character considering that he used to be Crosetti's partner and because earlier that season there was an entire episode devoted to a single scene where Lewis just barely talked Kellerman out of killing himself. Lewis was actually one of the better characters on that show and I'm not sure that he ever really got his due.
Agreed. Serenity was actually my first introduction to the series and even then Wash's death was pretty brutal and enraging. (When I first saw the movie, it was at a preview screening and afterwards there was a woman from Universal asking us what we thought about the movie. She wanted our opinions on the movie overall but she was instead confronted with our raw grief over Wash's death. I kinda feel sorry for her, although there are far worse jobs that one could have.)
I didn't like Wash's death because it kinda felt like an arbitrary writer decision rather than something that fit with the narrative of the story. Matthew's death on Downton Abbey had a similar effect on me. It happened not because it was part of the story but because Dan Stevens decided that he didn't want to do the show any more. What makes it worse is that it kinda invalidates all of the time & energy I spent rooting for Matthew & Mary to get together during the first couple seasons. I still kept watching the show for the remaining 3 seasons because I still liked a lot of the other characters but it just wasn't the same. And I know a lot of other people who quit the show at that point and I don't blame them.
I loved the Wash death for how shocking it was and I think it did serve a point. It made everyone's safety in question during the final attack because at this point you don't know who will live or die. Plus I liked that he got to be a hero but their os always something tragc or distrubing by characters being killed mid-sentence. Still not sure if his death techincally would even count in this thread since it happened in a movie instead of the tv show. I can see how though it might work in some movies like this since "Serenity" has always felt more like a series final than just a regular movie.
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