Kill 'em all...

[fajrdrako]

From fannish5: Name five characters who should die, or should have died sooner.

This one is fun!

1. From Heroes: Maya. The one who cries and runs and runs and cries all the time. What a drip. Yeah, she did die - I know. Then they brought her back. Sylar - shoot her again? Please? And make it stick this time?



2. From Smallville: Lana Lang. When I first saw pictures of Kristen Kreuk, I thought she was beautiful. It didn't take long for me to learn to hate the sight of her.



3. From Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness. And he did. Over and over. Wrings my heart every time. And the other Captain Jack Harkness: dying for his duty, so beautifully, heroically and tragically. Yes, the death should have happened - had to happen.



4. From Battlestar Galactica: President Roslin. I know everyone has a character in Battlestar Galactica whom they love to hate - someone told me recently that looking at Baltar made her sick, and I have another friend who feels that way about his Six, while I happen to quite like watching them both. For me, the character I loathe to see is Laura Roslin. I don't think there's anything I like about that character, including her relationship with Will Adama, who is my favourite in the show. So - let her die before we get any more drug-induced religious visions, please?



5. From Lost: Ben. No offense to Ben himself, really, but his regular appearance in Lost coincided with my completely losing interest in the show. I'd loved first season: intriguing stories about interesting characters, and mysteries surrounding them, but by the time the focus shifted to Ben and the Others it lost all meaning. So I blame Ben. And I miss the show that I thought Lost was going to become.

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

My, you are sounding ... bloodthirsty lately.

Have you watched too much _Pirates of the Caribbean_ (even if it does have Barrowman, IIRC)?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

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<iby the time the focus shifted to Ben and the Others it lost all meaning. So I blame Ben. And I miss the show that I thought Lost was going to become.</i>

You are totally not alone in that.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - it started out interesting. And then? Not so much. What a disappointment.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My, you are sounding ... bloodthirsty lately.

Hee. I didn't set the topic! Maybe I saw it as a chance to express my inner savage.

Have you watched too much _Pirates of the Caribbean_

Surely you jest. That would be an oxymoron, and quite impossible.

(even if it does have Barrowman, IIRC)?

Alas, no. I think you are confusing one Captain Jack with another. Captain Jack Sparrow is the hero in Pirates of the Caribbean, played by the ever-beautiful Johnny Depp. Captain Jack Harkness is the hero in Torchwood, played by the ever-beautiful John Barrowman.

There are other Captain Jacks around, but none so important.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

#3: Definitely. Jack can't die too often -- he does it so well.

#5: Also agree. I started losing interest in Lost about the time it became evident Ben was completely omniscient -- no matter what strategy the Losties tried, they always ended up playing into Ben's hands. The wheels-within-wheels stuff was strung out endlessly to milk the thin writing and it just got so boring.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Jack can't die too often -- he does it so well.

He does. That was such a shock to me, in "Everything Changes", when he was shot and came back - I was totally not expecting it. And every time since, it wrenches me.

As for Lost - it's a good point about Ben being omniscient. I began to fell they were just spinning wheels, pretending to advance the story - pretending to have a story - and really having nothing much there at all.