Wtf: I'm freaking cursed... (Spoilers for tonight's The Walking Dead)

[black_sluggard]

I must just be naturally attracted to expendable people. I mean, every, time I pick a favorite character, every goddamned time, that character ends up dying. And it's always in the most pointless of ways. Example: I stopped watching Stargate Atlantis when Beckett died. I mean...an exploding fucking tumor? And it wasn't even his tumor.

Jesus.

Moving on... The Walking Dead.

I liked Dale. I liked Dale a lot. He was a little bit of an oddball. He was a bad ass old guy, and he stood by his convictions. He was a living reminder of the ideals of the past, but without the implication that those ideals were no longer relevent.

I'm not sure if his death is supposed to symbolize the death of the values he represented, or if it is supposed to be a wake up call to the rest of the characters. While I loved him as a character, and I tend to root for humanist ideal, as a writer I kind of hope it's the former. While I agree with his significance, I've never liked martyrs. Dying for your beliefs is one thing, but his death had nothing to do with his message.

A person's death should never be the reason their words carry weight, and if that's what they do, I think it cheapens him as a character, and cheapens the arc he died for.

TL;DR: Whaaaaaaa! They killed Dale! T_T

Comments

[adja999.livejournal.com]

I loved your TLDR tag at the end. ^^

Eh. I sympathise with you. I'm attracted to impossible/disposable ships. (the enemies you KNOW would seek comfort in reconciliation but would NEVER take a step in that direction, the couple that gets together only so that one of them realizes they're still in love with someone else...)

I remember tuning in to Lost once because I'd heard Michelle Rodrigez was in it, and it turned out to be the episode she died... Yeah. So... *pats your back*