Right. George Takei is the only one who should get to say, “Oh, my.” 
I concur with this. I think the idea was to shock everyone because we know despite what injuries they get, the main crew will survive so Tasha’s death was supposed to blindside us … except everyone knew it was going to happen before the episode even aired.
I thought killing off Lady Sybil and Matthew in one season of Downton Abbey was a little excessive, but if someone wants to leave the series there aren’t too many options.
I disagree. It let the President dramatically rail at the Almighty - in the National Cathedral, no less!
They can go on tour, join the army, be posted overseas, go to live in The City, etc etc.
I lost a lot of respect for the character and the writers with that piece of crap.
Jennifer Jones in The Towering Inferno.
Fond as I was of Tasha, I always like the original death. The fact that it seemed pointless WAS the point. By giving her a death usually reserved for minor characters, but showing the reaction of all the major characters to it, they made it became more powerful somehow.
Pamela had the dream. And she woke up to find Bobby in the shower.
Talking about pointless deaths, I’d say just about all of them in The Americans. All in the name of “the Cause.”
I thought they killed her off for doin nude pix.
The pictures first appeared in “Playboy” in the late 1970s when she was billed as Bing’s granddaughter so they should have known about them. Playboy, always willing to recycle things , published them again when TNG became a hit.
Donny in The Big Lebowski. I mean, I do get how he was a mostly pointless character, and his random death underscored the pointlessness of everything, and that was the point. Or…something.
When Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) left the show, the writers had him join the Army. Problem solved. But no . . . before he could get out of the country, he was hit and dragged by a bus. He was so gruesomely injured that he was unrecognizable to his former coworkers.
Completely unnecessary death . . . except possibly to sate the apparent bloodlust of GA viewers.
Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
The blind baby in the Crocodile episode of Black Mirror.
But then, with both parents dead, it would be better for me to think about it as a mercy killing. Nah, nope. Needless and cruel.
The dog in Dead Calm.
He was out of his element.
The dog in Mad Max.
Another star trek one: The death of Commander Tucker in the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise.