Yeah I was pretty bummed when Derek died in the Sarah Conner Chronicles. It was so close to the end of the series though that it doesn’t really register.
I don’t know if Lady Marjorie Bellamy on “Upstairs, Downstairs” was my favorite character but I was shocked when she drowned on the Titanic. Her maid Miss Roberts, an unlikeable snoot, survived and was put out to pasture at Southwald.
Good thing Mclean Stevenson had some great shows to fall back on when he left “MASH” and Henry Blake got killed off.
I was very surprised when Opie was murdered in prison on Sons of Anarchy
Two characters on “Night Court”, Florence Halop and Selma Diamond and one on “Cheers”, Nicholas Colasanto all died-off on the show. Except they really, you know DIED :(. “Hill Street Blues” too, I think, and they had to re-write the shows to reflect that. Also Jack Soo on “Barney Miller”.
Nm dammit
I love Kal Penn, both as the character Kumar and as Kutner on House. So of course I hated it when Kutner committed suicide. Or was it? House was still figuring it was maybe murder when I stopped watching the series.
It’s loosely based on Hamlet where every developed character except Horatio dies gruesomely. And it’s debatable whether Horatio is a developed character. Expect them all to die.
Because they just wanted to piss you off :rolleyes:
^^^ If that had been their intention, I wasn’t the only person that they ticked off.
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That episode was done really well. House was trying to tackle it like a mystery because that was how he coped with the death of one of his ducklings. But there was no mystery to Kutner’s death, or if there was, it was too complex for a tidy diagnosis.
Someone had spoilered it for me. Amber’s death was more shocking to me but I don’t know if I would have thought that if not for that spoiler.
There were many on MI-5 (Spooks in England), but the one that bummed me out most was Jo Portman.
I suppose it may not technically qualify as being killed off, but I remember being supremely annoyed when Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor regenerated in “The Caves of Androzani.” Having no real idea of the length of his tenure on the show, I was totally surprised when this turned out to be the one predicament he wasn’t going to be able to think his way out of. I nonetheless look back quite fondly at the fact that I had the opportunity to be so surprised. If that episode had debuted today, I probably would have been aware for months that a change was in the offing, and maybe even an idea of the identity of the next actor to take the role.
On China Beach way back in the 1980s, there was a character named “Cherry” who had volunteered to be a Red Cross “Donut Dolly” and was in Viet Nam to search for her brother. About half-way through the first season, I told my wife during a commercial that I absolutely loved the way her character was developing, from a wide-eyed, fresh-off-the-airplane, naive farm girl, to an older, wiser, woman, without totally losing her ideals.
About 15 minutes later, she was gone.
I think I was almost physically ill. IIRC, it was the first time I had seen someone I considered a “main character” get killed off.
Several years later, my daughter had reached the age where she was old enough to stay up and watch Law & Order. She really liked Jill Hennessy’s character, Claire Kincaid. I’m not sure she ever knew the character’s name; she always called her “Counselor”, which was her title in the show.
One night, she was getting ready to go to a friend’s house and had asked us to tape the episode, so I was. I remember her walking down the stairs on her way out the door, and she stopped at the bottom of the stairs to wait for her friend. Right at that moment, Kincaid was in the accident that took her life.
My daughter immediately burst into tears. It was probably 3 years before she watched another episode.
I echo the death of Lady Marjorie on the original Upstairs, Downstairs as a shock to the system.
The death of Ned on the first season of Game of Thrones caused me to stop watching the series. He was the only likeable character in that universe, despite his flaws, and once he was killed, I had no interest in the fates of any of the others. (I had the same problem with The Sopranos, we lost interest because there was no likeable character.)
NCIS-Near the end of the episode, Kate sees the sees the shooter aiming at Gibbs and makes a dive to block the bullet. Shot goes off, Kate goes down, shooter taken out. Gibbs and Di Nozzo see her face down on the ground and roll her over…and her vest had stopped the bullet. As they pull her to her feet, she says “Wow!, I thought I’d die before I…”
Then this happens, and the episode ends.
Ripper Street:
[SPOILER]Constable Hobbs - they built him quite nicely. Young lad, eager, takes on the telegraph, starting to learn forensics, gets to put on civvies and tail someone. You knew he would end up in trouble. But not that much trouble. Gone.
I sniffled a bit.[/SPOILER]
I’m a HUGE fan of Steve Earle, so I loved his character, Harley Watt, on Treme. For him to be killed off in such an unexpectedly brutal pointless way was a shocker. I was sad for days after watching that episode.