30 Days of TV Meme -- Day 30

[gehayi]

Day 30 - Saddest death of a character.

Now I've seen some sad deaths on TV. Tara Maclay's death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer provoked a huge Skywalker NO and a hatred of Warren Meers that I'm never going to get past. A few years back, when commercials for the Subaru Tribeca SUV started using the song "Dust in the Wind," I either had to turn the

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[ja_bucc]

I'm very sorry about your mother. :(

Along a vaguely similar line, I absolutely canNOT watch any television episode that has to do with the disappearance/abuse/death of a child. It's impossible for me to separate the lines of reality and for days I'll be fearful of every move my children make, imagining what I would do if it happened to one of them.

For me, that is not entertainment.

[ja_bucc]

There are just some things that will never be entertaining to me. The writer(s) will have obviously done the job of making readers/watchers empathize. However, no thank you in those instances.

[gehayi]

Yeah. That's the reason I won't watch "Children of Earth"--not because of Ianto's pointless death (which IS absolutely pointless, and could have been canonically prevented) but because a) aliens want kids so that they can get high, b) the governments of the world start deciding whose kids are expendable and whose aren't and c) Jack sacrifices his own grandson. There are some things you don't get to do and still be the good guy, and between giving kids to the aliens in the first place and being responsible for his grandson's death...Jack Harkness, you have crossed the moral event horizon and I want nothing to do with you now.

Oliver Twist becomes even more horrifying if you know 19th-century history and realize that for most slum kids, working for the likes of Fagin (who was based on a real person) and Sikes was the GOOD option; they at least got fed because, as pickpockets, whores and assistants to housebreakers, they had value. Once I realized that, I found the book almost painful to read, because in the end, Sikes dies (and serves

[lareinenoire]

That is awful about your mother; I am so sorry. And it does make perfect sense that you would react to the episode that way. Even I haven't watched it again since the first time I saw it, and I haven't got even a fraction of the same baggage.

[gehayi]

Thank you for understanding. And yeah, the baggage does make the episode rather sucktastic.