EW:No main characters are safe

[RAMA]

http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/30/star-trek-discovery-characters-killed-off/

Game of Thrones influence on DSC.

I think we had an idea about this but it's all but confirmed now.

 

[Dukhat]

Yep. This is not Berman-era Trek. There's no point in making a big deal about the cast when half of them will probably be dead by the end of the season.

 

[Markonian]

I hope they don't kill off the two captains right off the bat because it would be too predictable. Otherwise I'm game.

 

[JD]

I just hope they don't just start randomly killing of popular characters, just for the shock value.

 

[Ovation]

I think "red shirt #3" should be the last one standing at series end.

 

[Tenacity]

There's no point in making a big deal about the cast when half of them will probably be dead by the end of the season.

A good reason not to make a big deal about the show in general.

 

[Dukhat]

A good reason not to make a big deal about the show in general.

So by that logic, no one should have made a big deal about Game of Thrones. Yet they did.

 

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[Jesse1066]

Sarek dies.

 

[captainkirk]

Sarek dies.

That would be interesting, but I think we should be writing Captain Lorca's obituary.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Georgiou and Lorca are goners.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Arthur Quiller-Couch was the one who initially advised writers to "Murder your darlings" in a 1914 lecture at Cambridge. He didn't mean characters. He was talking about extraneous ornamental writing that, while you're so very proud of it, does nothing but bog down the narrative. It has since been extrapolated to encompass the killing off of developed characters, and no one has run more amok with the idea than George R. R. Martin. There are better, less cheap ways of pulling the rug out from under the reader/viewer because you will inevitably numb your audience out, leaving you nowhere to go. I'm saddened to see Star Trek following the crowd this way.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Spock gets killed by a Le-matya when Michael Burnham fires first and shuts down the Guardian of Forever?

 

[Greg Cox]

In other words: no reset button if characters die.

I thought that was considered a good thing these days.

 

[Campe]

It's a great thing! I'm not for killing characters just for shock value. But if it's important to the story, make it big, make it real, make it stick.

 

[Mage]

Arthur Quiller-Couch was the one who initially advised writers to "Murder your darlings" in a 1914 lecture at Cambridge. He didn't mean characters. He was talking about extraneous ornamental writing that, while you're so very proud of it, does nothing but bog down the narrative. It has since been extrapolated to encompass the killing off of developed characters, and no one has run more amok with the idea than George R. R. Martin. There are better, less cheap ways of pulling the rug out from under the reader/viewer because you will inevitably numb your audience out, leaving you nowhere to go. I'm saddened to see Star Trek following the crowd this way.

Completely, totally this!! I'm so done with writers thinking we're still shocked about them 'daring' to kill main characters. These days, that's standard. Letting a main character live is becoming the new fab. All this fake drama about not knowing who will live and who will die..... How about just focusing on a good story and good acting instead of cheap shocks by killing of someone who the audience loves? And still, GoT and TWD still gather millions of viewers based on this simple theatrical trick. Meh. Done with that shit.

 

[Spider]

The problem with all this, is if they kill off a character you'd didn't have an emotional investment in, then it's not like you care, except for how it might affect future plots. If they kill off someone you really like, you get pissed. I've stopped watching shows before when they killed off a character I really liked especially when it was really a stupid death, like Lexa's death in The 100.

 

[cultcross]

Characters being at risk and genuine jeopardy - great. That's part of the more mature drama storytelling that had moved on from the era when the episodes must be playable in any order.

I would however be annoyed if they went down the route of TWD or GoT where the plot is almost overshadowed by who will die next. I don't see that happening at all, but it would be a shame if it did.

Non invincible characters, though, I'm all for.

 

[captainkirk]

What would be more dramatic than killing characters would be to suddenly stick them in new dangerous predicaments that they don't resolve within an episode. The occupation of DS9 for instance. They were also considering making BOBW the beginning of an arc with the Borg starting to assimilate Earth.

 

[CaptainPete]

Sarek dies.

That won't happen because it's Prime timeline. Changing visuals is one thing but changing the actual events is quite another. The show runners have said from the beginning the events are primetimeline with reimagined visuals.