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Current Talk '06 II / Re: Moments that made you go "WHAT?!!!!"
« on: October 05, 2006, 07:30:06 PM »
For better or worse, whenever a character/actor was being written out of the show, the tact the writers most often chose was to kill them off. I'll grant them that it was certainly the most dramatic choice.
And while we're on this subject, there's been something that has always puzzled me. I most definitely agree that the act of [spoiler]Barnabas killing Carl[/spoiler]was reprehensible and in no way am I trying to defend it, BUT [spoiler]Carl was determined to expose Barnabas, so at the very least Barnabas acted in self-defense.[/spoiler]However, the act that I think was even more reprehensible was [spoiler]Dirk programming Judith to shoot Rachel. In that instance Dirk's motivation was nothing but pure revenge, and Rachel had simply stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time through absolutely no fault of her own. Yet poor Rachel's death doesn't elicit half the sympathy or outrage that Carl's death does. I just wonder why that is? For me, anyway, Rachel's death is more tragic than Carl's...[/spoiler]
And while we're on this subject, there's been something that has always puzzled me. I most definitely agree that the act of [spoiler]Barnabas killing Carl[/spoiler]was reprehensible and in no way am I trying to defend it, BUT [spoiler]Carl was determined to expose Barnabas, so at the very least Barnabas acted in self-defense.[/spoiler]However, the act that I think was even more reprehensible was [spoiler]Dirk programming Judith to shoot Rachel. In that instance Dirk's motivation was nothing but pure revenge, and Rachel had simply stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time through absolutely no fault of her own. Yet poor Rachel's death doesn't elicit half the sympathy or outrage that Carl's death does. I just wonder why that is? For me, anyway, Rachel's death is more tragic than Carl's...[/spoiler]