I mean next generation killed off tasha yar and Enterprise killed off tucker at the end.
Should Discovery kill off a character after Season 1?
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Yeah, I agree. Isaacs is gonna get Ned Stark'd to close out the season with a shocker, and set up the rise of Martin-Green's character to the leadership role
Good thing Sean Bean didn't get the role, we'd all be waiting for the day he kicked the bucket
Yar was killed off because Denise Crosby left the show. Tucker was killed because B&B know nothing about dramatic effect.
If anyone in this show is getting killed off, it's because they were meant to be killed off per the already-written 13 scripts.
The writing is definitely on the wall.
...in bigger letters than it was for Han Solo.
I'd like the show to have that "anyone can die at any time" vibe that The Walking Dead had at its peak. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence, after all.
I always thought it would be interesting to do a show where a character dies off at the end of the season. For example, plan for the show to run four seasons and hire five cast members. Then film the show as far along as they can until they have to write the finale. Then have all the actors draw lots. The loser gets written off. Repeat the process each year.
So basically like a scripted/fictional Survivor thing.
I do it with a show premise similar to Voyager with a smaller ship--say the size of Firefly.
So basically like a scripted/fictional Survivor thing.
I do it with a show premise similar to Voyager with a smaller ship--say the size of Firefly.
Back when Stargate Universe wrapped up, you could have knocked me over with a feather when Lou Diamond Phillips lasted the entire series.
They could do a "Blake's Seven" and kill off all the characters...
It's important to have credible mortal danger in the show, but it's more important that death be impactful and consequential.
Kill Lorca! Now! 
I know that the narrative is that Crosby wanted to leave TNG, but I suspect that Yar was also partly killed off because the character didn't really gel. Crosby herself wasn't a good actress either, and she didn't seem to really understand the show at the time, and I think the decision to kill her reflected those facts. Under normal circumstances she'd probably have simply been written out of the show after the first season.
If someone on Discovery doesn't pull their weight they might go the same way, but casting is generally a more meticulous process these days. It's unusual to see a big-budget show getting it wrong. I think any deaths on Discovery will be entirely story-related. No shock value, no behind the scenes drama.
If someone on Discovery doesn't pull their weight they might go the same way, but casting is generally a more meticulous process these days. It's unusual to see a big-budget show getting it wrong. I think any deaths on Discovery will be entirely story-related. No shock value, no behind the scenes drama.
Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that...
