[ SECRET POST #6640 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6640 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Character deaths you resented the most

[philstar22]

For a long time Robin on Once Upon a Time. Mostly because I was bitter he was killed off and Hook wasn't. And because I massively shipped Robin/Regina back in the day.

the Mother on How I Met Your Mother. Such a bad story choice.

Sirius on Harry Potter, again back when I was in the fandom. He was a favorite character and I was bitter that he never got to enjoy post-prison life. I get the choice narratively, it might have even been the right one. But I still didn't like it.

Still bitter about Jadzia on Deep Space Nine. Will be bitter about that forever. Wrong narrative choice, wrong because of the behind the scene awfulness to the actress, wrong because the replacement character just didn't work for me.

Re: Character deaths you resented the most

[(Anonymous)]

Sirius on Harry Potter, again back when I was in the fandom. He was a favorite character and I was bitter that he never got to enjoy post-prison life. I get the choice narratively, it might have even been the right one. But I still didn't like it.


What I never got were the number of non-fandom people who didn't care about Sirius. I'd mention finding his death said, and they'd ask me, 'who?" I realize he wasn't a casual fan darling to the extent he was a fandom darling, but he did have an entire book dedicated to his existence...

Anyway, I have mixed feelings. I do think it may have worked better narratively, but I don't know, it could've been interesting had he been allowed to live. Maybe he's never really able to settle safely until the end, so he's always a somewhat absent adult figure (allowing/forcing Harry to fend for himself)?

Re: Character deaths you resented the most

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I would have taken Jadzia getting killed off, but the way they did it was so dumb and awful (and so nothing to do with her!), and finding out about the behind-the-scenes reasons later only made it worse.

Re: Character deaths you resented the most

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Robin too. I thought he was a good character in that ensemble, he brought something that I don’t think the other characters really had. Kind of his own sense of purpose and his own take on good and evil. And I didn’t even have shipping feelings about the show, but I thought he was really good for Regina’s character development and growth.

(I hated how they killed Baelfire/Neal too. I guess I knew he was probably going to die at some point, but I remember it being so unsatisfying. It just felt like the actor wanted out and they thought this was a good time to inject some random tragedy into the story.)

Re: Character deaths you resented the most

[(Anonymous)]

Sirius's death always pissed me off because it was too early. Now, for the entire story structure, it made sense. Dumbles died in book six, so Sirius couldn't die then, and Sirius had to be gone for Dumbles to die because it's supposed to show an escalating pattern of isolation and drama. (I expect we were also supposed to care about Dumbles but he was so unlikable in book six alone I think a lot of people were just glad he bit it.) His parents were some of the last dead in the first war, then for Harry it built from a classmate, to a godfather, to his wise old mentor/the leader of the good side (again, I do feel JKR thought we'd all be more attached to him). This is a perfectly logical progression and makes sense.

But for Harry and Sirius, who'd barely gotten to spend time with one another, it was too early. They were just starting to really find their footing with one another and then boom, gone, Harry's lost another parent figure.