Talk:Frenemy/@comment-24.58.213.161-20120628150236/@comment-86.149.149.248-20120629002559

Killing off charecters only works if you do it right.

Good example: The death of Ashley Magus in Santuary= After being brainwashed and turnned into a unstopable killing machine by the bad guys she is released on her mother and friends. The heroes exhaust all options and come up with a weapon to kill her but Helen (her mother) ultimetly cant pull the trigger and it seams like daughter is about to rip her throat out. Helen pleads with her daughter and the bond between mother and child is stong enough to break the brainwashing. This joy is short lived has Ashley ultimetly sacrifices her self to defeat the badguys last weapon and save her mom.

Reason: This was a good death death because it was a selfless act and compleatly unexpected. Ashley was a main charecter wich added the shock factor and her last words a tearful "Mom" has her mother pleeads with her not to do it gets me all the time. Also the death is not swept under the rug and we feel the aftermath for a while. Her mother loses the will to live for a time and her dad relapses into his old murderous habbits. It forces the other charecters into the forefront and makes the battle with the badguys a lot more serious.

Bad Example: What I like to call the Torchwood massacre= It was established people die young in the show and we knew it was going to happen and that made the charecters more precious. Then Russel T Davis had to go and ruin it by killing off 3/5ths of the main cast in rapid sucsession and then replaces them with new charecters he just has quickly kills off in ways that get repetative and boaring in my opinion.

Reason: These were bad deaths because we lost the intresting layered charecters and were left with the annoying Eve Myles's Gwen and John Barrowmen who being the immortal Jack Harkness was never in danger to begin with. These deaths were swep under the rug and hardly every mentioned depite promise to the fans that there would be plenty of the old series to keep fans intrested. When the deaths were mentioned it was mostly done in a callous nature with Gwen saying that she was glad they were dead because it made her fell important. The replacement charecters will little more than cheap coppies of the former team and did not relay make an impression on you.