SkavauWhat character death made you not want to continue the series?
Jimmy in boardwalk empire. After that it was like, what, I’m gonna keep watching just to see what the guy who obtains kids for rich pedophiles is gonna do next? Nah, I love Steve Buscemi in serious roles but I lost interest after Jimmy finished his Oedipus arch.
TrackinDaKrakenZoe Barnes (Kate Mara) in House of Cards. Until her death, I didn’t realize she was the only reason I was watching the show.
Same.
But wow, the shock value. That may have been the first time I was palms-to-mouth shocked. Not until the crosswalk incident in the Billy Bob Thornton lawyer show was in that shocked again.
He killed the reporter at the end of the original, so they were quite clever to have her survive season one and then do it immediately.
Joel’s death in The Last of Us. It was a bad idea in the second game and it had the same effect on the show.
Yeah, he was a piece of shit.
L’s Death in DeathNote. Near was cool and all, but the entire story after L dies felt like an epilogue rather than a continuation of the plot.
I stopped reading the manga after L died, and decided to never even start watching the anime. Death Note without L was just worthless to me.
agamemnonymousThe anime is fantastic if you stop after L dies
I could be wrong, but I remember reading that it was the original ending, but someone didn’t like Light winning, so they added the other two characters to beat Light.
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My wife quit GoT when Geoffrey ordered the dire wolf killed. Same reason, kinda.
She made the right decision.
Walking Dead (show): Glenn
Glenn and Maggie were the only thing worth rooting for at that point and losing one of them ruined the last thing interesting about the show.
I’m not shitting on it, and I strongly doubt it is the only show. They also didn’t follow the comics most of the time so making it a big deal for this one event, where they also killed off another character that was on a semi interesting arc, is a silly thing to focus on.
Killing off main characters can be a good thing, but the show just didn’t have any remaining compelling character arcs once they killed off the last thing that gave any reason for living to introduce yet another ‘humans are the real monsters’ villain.
Tbf, I meant generally.
Its the most common reason people seem to have for why they quit the show.
SanctusYes, but is their reason like mine where it isn’t the death itself but how they lead up to it with the stupid trash can fake out and that they had already ruined any reason for rooting for the other characters?
It was the last straw in a series of decisions by the showrunners, not something that came out of the blue and ruined an otherwise enjoyable show.
I stopped watching mostly because of the ridiculousness that these guys had the logistics to shut down every single road and trail away from there, during a zombie apocalypse no less. No groups ran into problems? None? Then glen died. And I tried to watch it longer but the hopelessness led to pointlessness.
This was my event, but it triggered something larger in me. I stopped watching most things where people were being killed off for entertainment and shock value. I asked myself “What am I doing with my life and watching this?”.
This one really sucked, to me. There’s so much more they could have done with the character!
It was nice to learn, from an interview with the actor, that he intentionally signed only a one season contract, and was a big fan of the story that wrote Hemmer out.
He didn’t say why, but I know many actors regret the time in the make-up chair, required to play an interesting alien.
There were a lot of questionably sadistic choices made by the producers in Game of Thrones, but when the >!orphans!< were strung up burned to death I said to my parter ‘ok that’s last warning. The show isn’t good enough to endure this crap’.
Then the red wedding happened next season and it was full of sadism - unsuspecting soldiers gruesomely and gleefully murdered by their comrades, >!foetus stabbed in the womb!<.
And that was the last Game of Thrones episode I watched. I don’t have any desire to revisit it.
A fantastic production in every other sense, ruined by extreme sadism at every corner.
To be fair, both of these things happened in the books. Except the Red Wedding with regards to Talisa/Jeyne, but everything else happened. They were following it.
Oh I’m not implying they didn’t happen in the books. But there’s a significant experiential difference between the written word and having it dramatically filmed, expertly recreated with special effects, centre-framed and shots lingered upon.
The showrunners revelled in the sadism and sexual sadism way too much for my tastes.
How would you depict a world as low and as violent as ASOIAF without doing that for specific plot moments like that though?
Just one example?
The baby being slaughtered by the queens guards (illegitimate offspring of the king) in the first season is a perfect example.
Harsh. Immoral. Brutal. Gets everything it needs to explain across to the viewer and does it all off camera.
Shots can also be partial or glimpses instead of lingering and detailed. Like the young prince’s sexual-sadistic murder of the kind-hearted brothel girl.
Whole series is a sadists wet dream.
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Comments like yours are one reason Lemmy is growing so slowly.
Gonna do my part and block your existence from my feed.
To be fair, we didn’t literally see the kids that Theon’s henchmen killed being killed. Only their charred bodies.
Shots can also be partial or glimpses instead of lingering and detailed (like the young prince’s sexual-sadistic murder of the kind-hearted brothel girl).
I don’t see why you find that somehow more acceptable than the charred kids that Theon killed in the way the show presented it.
I don’t, I was giving another example of a lingering and detailed shot that didn’t need to be to serve the story. Maybe I could’ve been clearer.
Janice in Barry. I will probably go back to watching the series, but the finale kind of ruined the things.
Not a show, but a movie spin-off. When they killed Wash in Serenity. I knew I wasn’t going to like it as much as the tv shows.
If they meant for that death to hurt a lot, it worked.
Wash and Sheppard both, man. 💔
The premise was that you stopped watching a show because of a character, but you’re talking about something that happened at the end of the wrap-up movie, so there wasn’t any more show to stop watching.
But yeah, that was one of the biggest shocks I’ve ever had.
OBJECTION!I put off watching the last season of DS9 for a while, after they killed off Jadzia Dax in a really forced way. The worst part was that there was another episode that season where she almost died and it would’ve been a much more personal and appropriate way for her to go, but instead she’s randomly at the wrong place when the big bad shows up doing main plot stuff and that’s it. It was incredibly disappointing. Apparently there was some drama with contract shenanigans behind the scenes, so they ended up having to write it in last minute.
I did eventually come back and watch the last season and I’m glad I did, but I legit almost dropped it.
The last half of the last season of DS9 was some of the most exciting TV I’ve ever seen. That final arc was great.
DaMonsterKneesMarissa Cooper. Fight me.
Sora. The last (latest?) entry of the kingdom hearts series was a slog of pointless, elongated, wish fulfillment cutscenes. It wasn’t his “death” that made me uninterested in whatever the future brings, but it did provide an easy out.
Alex death in the expanse. Rounded off the experience and end of the series but also marked the end for me.
The only one for me was Matthew Crowley in Downton Abbey. I don’t recall now exactly why, but reading the plot overview, I think it was because the aristocrat/commoner tension was what held my interest. The show was mostly a period soap opera with some social commentary elements. With his death, it felt like losing the drama and keeping the melodrama. (Although that plot line was mostly wrapped up by the end of the 3rd series, too.) I don’t recall being angry, or deciding not to watch further, I just never got around to it.
Idk, but I know what character death made me watch the rest of the series that I would stop otherwise.
It’s Tuvix ofc.
It’s Tuvix ofc.
John, John, John, John John John John John John and the rest. No consequences ever.
Uhhhggg that one anime with the two brothers and the mechs with drills.
I could not handle when sunglasses bro died. He was literally the only reason I liked that show, which I know is kind of the point because the little bro doesn’t even like his own show, but fuck!
Couldn’t do it, man.
THAT WAS IT! thank you!