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[@Fabricant451]  Things are always better in stories when death is a driving element for character progression.
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See I don't necessarily agree with this. Death is a hard thing to do properly when it comes to story telling and even more so in an episodic medium like television and most of the time the death isn't so much for character progression or drama but for shock value and buzzwords over the water cooler. Loathe as I am to bring up the show again but Lost is a perfect example of fucking up death. Locke's death did not accomplish anything other than tank the show's one actually great character for a shocking cliffhanger that ultimately led to nothing. Locke was dead but Terry O'Quinn was still around because who fucking cares. 

It always seems like the easy route to go, killing off a character, and rarely have I been "Oh, this death serves the plot/characters well". Death in a television show is the punchline of an unfunny joke. It used to be a novel thing. Now it's like the producers and writers are taunting you. Yes, having a show where no one is safe can do wonders for dramatic tension but still at the end of the day you know that the only characters that benefit from death are the ones that don't die because they can cry for a scene and submit it for an Emmy.


Though I suppose any show ever made can do death better than fucking The L Word. Oh my GOD what a disaster.