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selenakI'll go for characters, and it's a trickier question than it appears to be at first glance. Because sometimes the unhappy ending is the RIGHT ending, no matter how much your love for the character makes you hurt for it. Prime example: Londo Mollari, who is my favourite tv character of all time. But a happy, or even happier ending for Londo would have been completely wrong for his story. So instead of picking a bunch of my darlings whom regardless of story necessity I wish to be happy, I'll try for characters who could have gotten happier endings in their respective universes without compromising the story told.
1.) Danielle Rousseau. (Lost.) Of all the many, many deaths of Lost, this still strikes me as the biggest waste of a fascinating and largely unexplored character. Just to think of the scenes she could have had with Ben and Locke makes me yell im frustration. And later with Claire, for obvious reasons. And there was no narrative necessity for her death (as opposed to the death of her daughter).
2. Sikozu (Farscape). It's the stupidity of the storyline that offends me most, not the spy!revelation (hey, in this 'verse...). She would have to be spectacularly dumb and naive to believe her people would be freed by the Scarrans, and she wasn't. If you absolutely had to listen to Wayne Pygram and write her out because Scorpius shouldn't have a happy relationship, writers, then there would have been far smarter ways.
3. Isolde (Merlin).. As I said in my review of the episode, if you need to kill off one of them to make a point, kill Tristan. This keeps a swordfighting woman neither magical nor evil alive, which would only have benefited the series. Also there's mythical precedent, if that counts.
4. Number Three (Battlestar Galactica). Come on. The last Three in the universe, and she just decides to stay around on a dead planet to die? I realise a lot of people are feeling suicidal at the start of 4.5, but this screams Doylist reasons (either they couldn't get Lucy Lawless back, or they had no idea what to do with D'Anna anymore, but it makes neither character nor story sense. It especially hurts after two very strong performances. in the last two 4.0. eps.
5. Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks). Being chained to an exploding bank was weird even for David Lynch. Mind you, everyone's storylines were bizarre in the last half of the show after Laura's death was cleared up, but with Audrey in particular I had the impression that no one knew quite what to do with her anymore, which given what a vibrant character she'd been earlier was galling. Presumably she'd have survived the explosion, this being TP, but we'll never know.
1.) Danielle Rousseau. (Lost.) Of all the many, many deaths of Lost, this still strikes me as the biggest waste of a fascinating and largely unexplored character. Just to think of the scenes she could have had with Ben and Locke makes me yell im frustration. And later with Claire, for obvious reasons. And there was no narrative necessity for her death (as opposed to the death of her daughter).
2. Sikozu (Farscape). It's the stupidity of the storyline that offends me most, not the spy!revelation (hey, in this 'verse...). She would have to be spectacularly dumb and naive to believe her people would be freed by the Scarrans, and she wasn't. If you absolutely had to listen to Wayne Pygram and write her out because Scorpius shouldn't have a happy relationship, writers, then there would have been far smarter ways.
3. Isolde (Merlin).. As I said in my review of the episode, if you need to kill off one of them to make a point, kill Tristan. This keeps a swordfighting woman neither magical nor evil alive, which would only have benefited the series. Also there's mythical precedent, if that counts.
4. Number Three (Battlestar Galactica). Come on. The last Three in the universe, and she just decides to stay around on a dead planet to die? I realise a lot of people are feeling suicidal at the start of 4.5, but this screams Doylist reasons (either they couldn't get Lucy Lawless back, or they had no idea what to do with D'Anna anymore, but it makes neither character nor story sense. It especially hurts after two very strong performances. in the last two 4.0. eps.
5. Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks). Being chained to an exploding bank was weird even for David Lynch. Mind you, everyone's storylines were bizarre in the last half of the show after Laura's death was cleared up, but with Audrey in particular I had the impression that no one knew quite what to do with her anymore, which given what a vibrant character she'd been earlier was galling. Presumably she'd have survived the explosion, this being TP, but we'll never know.
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Date: 2012-01-09 10:47 pm (UTC)Young Audrey's investigative instincts are excellent, even if her self-preservation instincts aren't.
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Date: 2012-01-10 03:28 am (UTC)4. Number Three (Battlestar Galactica). Come on. The last Three in the universe, and she just decides to stay around on a dead planet to die? I realise a lot of people are feeling suicidal at the start of 4.5, but this screams Doylist reasons (either they couldn't get Lucy Lawless back, or they had no idea what to do with D'Anna anymore, but it makes neither character nor story sense. It especially hurts after two very strong performances. in the last two 4.0. eps.
Frantic nodding for both of these. You are SO right.