My mom quit Game of Thrones because they killed the dog in the first episode
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.
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.
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.
But bastard deserved it.
Yeah, he was a piece of shit.
Ragnar in Vikings. None of his sons had the same charisma and the show just fell flat to me. I still try to finish the show from time time but I still haven't managed to.
I felt like Ubbe had a lot of charisma, and Ivar had potential if they hadn't written him like Ramsey Snow. He should have been smart, unpredictable and morally grey, not a complete psychopath.
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.
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. 💔
I'm a leaf on the wind.
L from Death Note.
Kinda got boring for the other half, although Near-Mellow was okay after a while.
When Mulder went away to wherever he went in later seasons of X-Files.
Sweets in bones. I hated him when he showed up. Then he won me over and then he's gone :(
Glen in the walking dead. I was already on the posts during the governor arch. But Glenn fucking broke me.
Hard same. Then they immediately killed Abraham after, literally murdered every reason I had for watching that show.
Not only were they the best characters, they were the only good actors throughout all of the main cast.
Woodhouse and then Malory in Archer. i actually really enjoyed the coma seasons, but they’re damn good proof that you can’t come back home after you jump the shark.
You do know that both of the actors that played those characters died in real life, right?
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.
Shayla from Mr. Robot. I just lover her so much for some reason.
for real, but did you actually didn't finsig the show?
Hemmer on Strange New Worlds.
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.
Not one person in particular, but I gave up on 'The 100' after the space people decided to massacre the locals about two weeks after landing.
It seemed like the show was just one massacre after another at that point.
The only one for me was Matthew Crawley 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.
Hildur (played by Silje Torp) in "Vikingane" ("Norsemen" in English).
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 when his brother is gone, but fuck!
Couldn't do it, man.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and same here bro.
THAT WAS IT! thank you!
Marissa Cooper. Fight me.
Janice in Barry. I will probably go back to watching the series, but the finale kind of ruined the things.
If it helps, the show really deep dives the consequences of that, and really all of Barry's actions.
Idk, but I know what character death made me watch the rest of the series that I would stop otherwise.
It's Tuvix ofc.
Oh, and I almost quit Angel multiple times back when it was a new episode every week. The first one because the actor died, I understood and it was sad but not worth quitting. The next because Charisma got pregnant? (Even though I didn't know why Cordy was killed off then) Then the character of Fred, but at least she got a new character that I grew to really like. But hated how Wesley's death happened. Darla's death was pretty epic though. That show was so all over the place.
There's an anime in its 3rd season right now, that when a character death from the manga happens... I'll stop watching soon after. Does that count?
Jake, from the Dark Tower. Not because of Jake, but because of Oy. 😭😭😭
There was a fairly decent martial arts manhwa called Bowblade.
Tap for spoiler
They introduced a female love interest pretty deep into the story. She was the first character who was openly and unconditionally supportive of the main character. Unusually, they immediately progressed their relationship, got married, and had a child.
Of course this beacon of hope and warmth only existed to cause trauma. A terrible bad guy kidnapped her, against the advice of literally every other character. He tortured her to extremes only possible in a fantasy novel, then she died in the hero’s arms.
Awful writing. Just awful.
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.
I wish Rita was looking at the same moon at the same moment, I like that - connected by light
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