[ SECRET POST #4161 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4161 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

There's a Timothy Zahn quote from a 2008 interview that I saw floating around tumblr recently:

"I often hear the argument that having major characters die is more realistic than having them always come through unscathed. Of course it is. But I personally don't want my fiction to necessarily be 'realistic.' I want my fiction to be entertaining. For me, that means watching engaging characters I care about get into and out of dangerous predicaments, working and thinking together in order to defeat the bad guys. While some authors (and readers) like the tension of wondering who will live and who will die, I prefer the tension of seeing how the heroes are going to think or work their ways out of each difficult or impossible situation they find themselves in. If I want realism and the deaths of people I care about, I can turn on the news."

[(Anonymous)]

I'll co-sign this quote. Well said.

I don't mind the idea of character deaths in stories in and of themselves-done right it can be a powerful, moving storyline (and depending on the circumstances with a movie/show, sometimes they may not have a choice but to kill the character off-like if the actor dies, for instance).

But character deaths should also be used sparingly, because death is such a shocking situation much of the time, and death is something that changes the story and the characters who mourn dramatically to some degree. If you've got people dying left and right on shows, it risks getting to the point where it takes away the impact and emotion of such a weighty, significant, important storyline.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a good quote. I think too many people conflate "realistic" and "well done" and "entertaining". If I had a dollar for every time someone said, "I don't like X" and someone else went, "But X is realistic!!!!" as if that wasn't a non sequitur. /sigh