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Current Talk '06 II / Re: What are the chances of a new Dark Shadows?
« on: October 18, 2006, 09:45:20 PM »A good example, I think, is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With this show Joss Whedon only killed people off when it tied into a storyline and when it would resonate with the characters. I can't think of any character that died, that I cared about, that didn't affect the story somehow. Maybe Anya, but that's only because they didn't have time to show effects of her death because it was the last episode. Buffy, Tara, Joyce, Angel, Jenny, Kendra, and others IÂ may have forgotten--all these characters who died had some sort of affect on at least one, if not all of the characters, and it wasn't simply thrown away.
It's interesting that you make this point because it most certainly wasn't always the case with DS. Sure, there were some characters whose deaths impacted certain storylines from the moment their deaths took place to quite a bit afterward (Bill and Jeremiah come to mind), but in a great many cases characters were killed off simply to tie up loose ends (can you say Sky?). And even in the cases where there was a character whose death impacted future story, it wasn't often that a character's death was truly lamented by the audience long afterward. I mean, I still haven't gotten over Jenny Calendar's death in season two of Buffy, and even though many deaths on DS have been tragic (Sarah, Josette, Rachel, just to name a few) it's very hard to come up with many deaths on DS that have affected me as much. But then Buffy's Joss Whedon is a master at making his audience care and then pulling the rug out from under them. But that's not a discussion for this forum.