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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jan 13, 2013 22:30:42 GMT -5
gotta disagree with everyone saying Game of Thrones. that character's death is the basis for the entire plot from that point forward. One person said it, but while on game of thrones... {Spoiler}Renly, weakest piece of writing in the entire series. Could have been used to show Stannis as a superior commander, but nope, shadow demon pulled out of Mellisandre's ass. {Spoiler}Well, I wouldn't say pulled out of her ass per se... ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 13, 2013 23:51:03 GMT -5
gotta disagree with everyone saying Game of Thrones. that character's death is the basis for the entire plot from that point forward. One person said it, but while on game of thrones... {Spoiler}Renly, weakest piece of writing in the entire series. Could have been used to show Stannis as a superior commander, but nope, shadow demon pulled out of Mellisandre's ass. The problem is that {Spoiler}Renly was craftier than he looked and had amassed quite a force. In a straight up fight, Renly's host would have probably crushed Stannis' forces. Relying on the power of the Red priestess was his only option for victory. It feels cheap because it is cheap. Stannis has compromised his ethics for power.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 14, 2013 1:09:56 GMT -5
Oh how could I forget: Alien3 - you probably already know what I'm going to say: {Spoiler}Newt & Hicks - What shitty way to start a movie. Made the most of the stuff done in ALIENS seem pointless.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Jan 14, 2013 1:56:32 GMT -5
No spoilers, since it's an ongoing soap opera, but General Hospital.
Alan and Emily. Just absolutely pointless deaths that didn't have to happen. Two established, significant characters who had been around for a long time, and are part of the show's main family. Are brutally murdered in whatever the hell violence and gunfire surrounding Sonny and Jason was going on. But then, the writers realize their mistake, and bring their actors back, Stuart Damon as Alan as a ghost (who still occasionally makes appearances today), Natalia Livingston as first as a tumor-induced hallucination of Emily (yes, really), and then as Emily's long-lost twin sister. If the actors are just going to be brought back a month later, why not just freakin' NOT kill off the characters!?
Robert Guza's reign of terror as head writer is what I consider the dark ages of General Hospital.
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Post by Cela on Jan 14, 2013 2:06:26 GMT -5
One person said it, but while on game of thrones... {Spoiler}Renly, weakest piece of writing in the entire series. Could have been used to show Stannis as a superior commander, but nope, shadow demon pulled out of Mellisandre's ass. The problem is that {Spoiler}Renly was craftier than he looked and had amassed quite a force. In a straight up fight, Renly's host would have probably crushed Stannis' forces. Relying on the power of the Red priestess was his only option for victory. It feels cheap because it is cheap. Stannis has compromised his ethics for power. {Spoiler}He was crafty, but in a Littlefinger way. All tournaments, double dealing, and pageants and such. More a Ren Faire type than an actual commander. Good for ruling, bad for war.
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Post by Hurbster on Jan 14, 2013 3:11:15 GMT -5
Fear 3{Spoiler}Killing off the lead from FEAR 2 just seemed petty somehow.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 14, 2013 3:55:44 GMT -5
No spoilers, since it's an ongoing soap opera, but General Hospital. Alan and Emily. Just absolutely pointless deaths that didn't have to happen. Two established, significant characters who had been around for a long time, and are part of the show's main family. Are brutally murdered in whatever the hell violence and gunfire surrounding Sonny and Jason was going on. But then, the writers realize their mistake, and bring their actors back, Stuart Damon as Alan as a ghost (who still occasionally makes appearances today), Natalia Livingston as first as a tumor-induced hallucination of Emily (yes, really), and then as Emily's long-lost twin sister. If the actors are just going to be brought back a month later, why not just freakin' NOT kill off the characters!? Robert Guza's reign of terror as head writer is what I consider the dark ages of General Hospital. ' One character from General Hospital that I thought shouldn't have been killed off was Kristina's old boyfriend Kiefer Bauer (played by Christian Alexander of The Lying Game fame). Yes, he was physically and emotionally abusive to Kristina, but he was also quite mentally disturbed, and I thought there might have been some chance to redeem him. I felt that if the writers handled him right, Kiefer could've become the next Luke Spencer or Todd Manning: a misunderstood anti-hero who regrets the horrific acts he committed, tries to be good and make up for his transgressions, but his reputation tends to get in the way. I also hated the WAY that he died, simply getting mowed down by Alexis in her car. I would've liked to see him go to prison or an asylum, and come out rehabilitated. Or I would've liked to see Sonny and Alexis confront him, but we couldn't have that, otherwise they'd just look like big bad rich people persecuting and oppressing a teenage boy. Oh yeah, and I actually didn't mind Natalia as Rebecca Shaw. Nikolas laying into her and calling her a whore is my favorite scene of all time. "So you opened your legs out of the goodness of your heart?" Amazing.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 14, 2013 5:27:58 GMT -5
24 {Spoiler}I'll give them almost any other character death, but Curtis did NOT need to die. You have a guy who's almost on par with Jack Bauer and you just kill him in the middle of the episode with no follow-up or mention afterwards. Ugh. {Spoiler} Damn that was stupid, they spent ages building him up and for what? And General Hospital had a character called Kiefer Bauer? I wonder who that was named after?
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Post by Throwback on Jan 14, 2013 7:13:39 GMT -5
Days of Our Lives {Spoiler}Dr. Drake Ramoray
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Post by Captain2 on Jan 14, 2013 7:42:45 GMT -5
Buffy: {Spoiler} Anya, I had really grown to like her over the course of the show and the last season just pretty much seems to be "well we don't have much for her to do so lets kill her to make the last episode seem important"
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 14, 2013 10:38:21 GMT -5
gotta disagree with everyone saying Game of Thrones. that character's death is the basis for the entire plot from that point forward. One person said it, but while on game of thrones... {Spoiler}Renly, weakest piece of writing in the entire series. Could have been used to show Stannis as a superior commander, but nope, shadow demon pulled out of Mellisandre's ass. once again, bad example. it was all about showing that Stannis claims to be morally superior but is more than happy to make use of dark magic to get his dirty work done, and it's also to show that Melisandre has him wrapped around her finger.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 14, 2013 10:42:50 GMT -5
Buffy: {Spoiler} Anya, I had really grown to like her over the course of the show and the last season just pretty much seems to be "well we don't have much for her to do so lets kill her to make the last episode seem important"
{Spoiler}that actually happened because Emma Caulfield specifically requested to be killed off in the finale because she didn't want to be asked to come back for any sequels/spinoffs and felt it'd raise the stakes in the finale (which, let's face it would've been a total curb-stomp battle with no stakes at all if NOBODY died).
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Post by xCompackx on Jan 14, 2013 11:07:31 GMT -5
24 {Spoiler}I'll give them almost any other character death, but Curtis did NOT need to die. You have a guy who's almost on par with Jack Bauer and you just kill him in the middle of the episode with no follow-up or mention afterwards. Ugh. {Spoiler} Damn that was stupid, they spent ages building him up and for what? And General Hospital had a character called Kiefer Bauer? I wonder who that was named after? {Spoiler}It's funny too, because Assad dies only a few episodes after Curtis did so killing him off was even more pointless since Assad doesn't even achieve anything.
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Post by Captain2 on Jan 14, 2013 11:58:57 GMT -5
Buffy: {Spoiler} Anya, I had really grown to like her over the course of the show and the last season just pretty much seems to be "well we don't have much for her to do so lets kill her to make the last episode seem important"
{Spoiler}that actually happened because Emma Caulfield specifically requested to be killed off in the finale because she didn't want to be asked to come back for any sequels/spinoffs and felt it'd raise the stakes in the finale (which, let's face it would've been a total curb-stomp battle with no stakes at all if NOBODY died). {Spoiler} Spike died, although he did come back in Angel. I didn't know that story but even then it really feels tacked on. Basically her character arc was learns to be a human, falls in love, gets engaged, Xander runs away because something COULD go wrong in a marriage, gets all vengencey but then feels bad about it, sits in the background for the last season, gets stabbed. It was really disappointing for such an awesome character
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2013 12:17:50 GMT -5
I'm gonna be blatant about it. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 {Spoiler}
Nena Trinity. Who else?
She deserved retribution for her lone action of random evil in Gundam 00, but seeing Louise kill her still pisses me off. That was a really cheap death.
I am aware that the implication is "karma is a bitch" for Nena's death. However, the problem with that is that while what Nena did was wrong and downright petty (fueled by a person with the mind of a little kid who doesn't know right from wrong), the things that Louise did to get to that chance to kill Nena were also bad. And, if you thought that killing Nena would make everything all better for Louise... it made things a LOT worse for her, as she descended to near-madness immediately after.
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Post by Cela on Jan 14, 2013 14:11:07 GMT -5
{Spoiler}that actually happened because Emma Caulfield specifically requested to be killed off in the finale because she didn't want to be asked to come back for any sequels/spinoffs and felt it'd raise the stakes in the finale (which, let's face it would've been a total curb-stomp battle with no stakes at all if NOBODY died). {Spoiler} Spike died, although he did come back in Angel. I didn't know that story but even then it really feels tacked on. Basically her character arc was learns to be a human, falls in love, gets engaged, Xander runs away because something COULD go wrong in a marriage, gets all vengencey but then feels bad about it, sits in the background for the last season, gets stabbed. It was really disappointing for such an awesome character Also, Whedon always wanted to realistically kill off a main character, casually, one scene, no giant last stand. Dickweed.
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Jan 14, 2013 19:48:30 GMT -5
Walking Dead (Comic Books) {Spoiler}Glenn Agreed 100%. Not sure if I can continue the series after that ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 14, 2013 23:06:57 GMT -5
I'm gonna be blatant about it. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 {Spoiler}
Nena Trinity. Who else?
She deserved retribution for her lone action of random evil in Gundam 00, but seeing Louise kill her still pisses me off. That was a really cheap death.
I am aware that the implication is "karma is a bitch" for Nena's death. However, the problem with that is that while what Nena did was wrong and downright petty (fueled by a person with the mind of a little kid who doesn't know right from wrong), the things that Louise did to get to that chance to kill Nena were also bad. And, if you thought that killing Nena would make everything all better for Louise... it made things a LOT worse for her, as she descended to near-madness immediately after.
{Spoiler}That is probably why they did it. A big part of Gundam 00 is that revenge hurts you as well as the one you seek it against. That is why Smirnoff's son is one of the most pitiable people in the show, even with his belligerent douchiness. He can never take back what he did, just as Louise had to kill part of herself to get to where she could kill Nena.
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