Highlander, Lost, and Sidekicks
If there are any Highlander fans on my flist (or heck, anyone with even a slight familiarity with it), I could really use some company! :(
I've been working my way through the series from the beginning and just finished watching season 5. What timing I have! Just when I thought I had seen the most depressing season finale ever with last week's LOST ( Read more... )
I've been working my way through the series from the beginning and just finished watching season 5. What timing I have! Just when I thought I had seen the most depressing season finale ever with last week's LOST ( Read more... )
And it's not even so much that they die, but because it usually seems to be like what you said -- to give the hero more angst. Or to put the audience on edge. "Increase the tension." (Did you listen to the writers' commentary for LotR? Every story change they made was to "increase the tension." I can't even read the word "tension" anymore without hearing it spoken with a New Zealand accent in my head. But I digress...) It's emotionally manipulative is what it is.
The sidekick dies in one of my very favorite books, and it was sad, but didn't make me angry because it was impossible for it to go any other way. It had to happen... I kind of hoped it wouldn't, but I could accept when it did because that's what the story was about. It wasn't just done to add some punch or to make you think that "anyone can die". :p
On a side note, the same author wrote another book where she killed the hero. The viewpoint character in a first person narrative. It didn't work very well.
I haven't heard of that movie before, but I'll look for it. I could use some sidekick-love right now! ;)
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You know its funny but I think I could take the death of Harry Potter better than I could Ron dying! I think Harry would go out like Charlie...saving the world and I could take that. Ron...I don't think so.
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I'm getting paranoid! :P
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