Talk:Battlefield/@comment-86.139.36.62-20120807003225

Killing off charecters can go one of two ways.

It can either cause a shock that will force the charecters to grow and change and highlight the dead has a hero. For example Nathan Stark sacrificed himself in Eureka to save the world from a collapsing time annomoly. Ashley Magnus gave her life to save her mother from the Cabal and herself has she had been turnned into a weapon by them. This forces Magnus to confront her own imortality and her sense of mortality as everyone she is close to will someday die.

Or it can go tits up with the writers killing off the popular charecters for shock alone or because they cant think of a decent plot so they start killing off people left right and centre. Torchwood is a perfect example of this where they killed off the three charecters everyone liked and found intresting to show people died young in the orginization. This on its own would have been ok iff they had not killed them off pratically right after the other. This led to crap fest wich was season 4 with substadered replacement charecters, a neutered John Barrowmen, plot holes I could drive a Jumbo jet through and more annoying Eve Myles than should have been allowed.