# Difficult actors on TV shows whose characters are killed off **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difficult-actors-on-tv-shows-whose-characters-are-killed-off/1012674 "2025-01-07T14:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 81
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difficult-actors-on-tv-shows-whose-characters-are-killed-off/1012674/81 "2025-01-09T17:09:01Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Huh? Care to enlighten another relative SDMB newbie (only 15 years)? So, J. Michael Straczynski was a former occasional poster to this board, and he and RealityChuck would get into it over some topic, with JMS landing some sick burns on RC? Is that what I’m picking up? This post. > [@Ridiculous portrayals of professions on TV](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-portrayals-of-professions-on-tv/601375/104): > > Ummm…no. No on several levels. SFWA did not say that I was not a real writer in terms of writing short stories and fiction. Second, I was a member of SFWA for some time, so I met their technical requirements. But that did not, and does not, mitigate against the inherent prejudice against TV and film writers that was rampant at that time, the late 80s. Specifically: Harlan Ellison, DC Fontana, Michael Cassutt, David Gerrold and I and many others were lobbying for the restoration of the Nebu… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difficult-actors-on-tv-shows-whose-characters-are-killed-off/1012674)._