Jake, from the Dark Tower. Not because of Jake, but because of Oy. 😭😭😭
Glen in the walking dead. I was already on the posts during the governor arch. But Glenn fucking broke me.
Hard same. Then they immediately killed Abraham after, literally murdered every reason I had for watching that show.
Not only were they the best characters, they were the only good actors throughout all of the main cast.
I honestly think Abraham hurt way more now that I’m thinking about it. Cause I identified with homie! I’m huge, fairly strong, but went bald early. Sorry about waxing nostalgic, but I had almost forgot about homie until now.
L from Death Note.
Kinda got boring for the other half, although Near-Mellow was okay after a while.
It didn’t stop me watching the show, but in Batwoman S2 when Oshun kills the manipulative psychologist in such a petty asshole-ish way, it just ruined so much intrigue for me and I stopped caring about him as a character.
The show had a lot of other problems, and pivoting into ACAB drivel (oh but its private security being criticized not cops so its totally different lolololol) really made me want to give up. But S3 dialled up the sapphic angst so I was determined to get that far.
Then it got cancelled anyway. So I guess killing off half the interesting characters made everyone stop watching it anyway.p
I wish Rita was looking at the same moon at the same moment, I like that - connected by light
Shayla from Mr. Robot. I just lover her so much for some reason.
for real, but did you actually didn’t finsig the show?
Woodhouse and then Malory in Archer. i actually really enjoyed the coma seasons, but they’re damn good proof that you can’t come back home after you jump the shark.
You do know that both of the actors that played those characters died in real life, right?
Walking Dead (show): Glenn
Glenn and Maggie were the only thing worth rooting for at that point and losing one of them ruined the last thing interesting about the show.
This was my event, but it triggered something larger in me. I stopped watching most things where people were being killed off for entertainment and shock value. I asked myself “What am I doing with my life and watching this?”.
It already felt like the writers weren’t going anywhere before that, Glenn ended up being the last straw.
TWD is the only show that gets shit on for that time it followed the comics.
I’m not shitting on it, and I strongly doubt it is the only show. They also didn’t follow the comics most of the time so making it a big deal for this one event, where they also killed off another character that was on a semi interesting arc, is a silly thing to focus on.
Killing off main characters can be a good thing, but the show just didn’t have any remaining compelling character arcs once they killed off the last thing that gave any reason for living to introduce yet another ‘humans are the real monsters’ villain.
Tbf, I meant generally.
Its the most common reason people seem to have for why they quit the show.
Yes, but is their reason like mine where it isn’t the death itself but how they lead up to it with the stupid trash can fake out and that they had already ruined any reason for rooting for the other characters?
It was the last straw in a series of decisions by the showrunners, not something that came out of the blue and ruined an otherwise enjoyable show.
I stopped watching mostly because of the ridiculousness that these guys had the logistics to shut down every single road and trail away from there, during a zombie apocalypse no less. No groups ran into problems? None? Then glen died. And I tried to watch it longer but the hopelessness led to pointlessness.
I hated the cliffhanger … not showing the person(s) was just cheap.
The trash can thing didn’t help, to be sure.
Probably because it seemed like a reversal. Glenn is nobody in the comics so when this happens.
My mom quit Game of Thrones because they killed the dog in the first episode
She made the right decision.
My wife quit GoT when Joffrey ordered the dire wolf killed. Same reason, kinda.
oh yeah, that’s the dog I was talking about
Same for me, except in Kung Pow.
Sweets in bones. I hated him when he showed up. Then he won me over and then he’s gone :(
When Mulder went away to wherever he went in later seasons of X-Files.
Joel’s death in The Last of Us. It was a bad idea in the second game and it had the same effect on the show.
But bastard deserved it.
Yeah, he was a piece of shit.
Oh, and I almost quit Angel multiple times back when it was a new episode every week. The first one because the actor died, I understood and it was sad but not worth quitting. The next because Charisma got pregnant? (Even though I didn’t know why Cordy was killed off then) Then the character of Fred, but at least she got a new character that I grew to really like. But hated how Wesley’s death happened. Darla’s death was pretty epic though. That show was so all over the place.
Ragnar in Vikings. None of his sons had the same charisma and the show just fell flat to me. I still try to finish the show from time time but I still haven’t managed to.
I felt like Ubbe had a lot of charisma, and Ivar had potential if they hadn’t written him like Ramsey Snow. He should have been smart, unpredictable and morally grey, not a complete psychopath.
Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) in House of Cards. Until her death, I didn’t realize she was the only reason I was watching the show.
Same, almost. It was jarring but I watched for Kevin spacey and Robin wright and their sheer talent.
But wow, the shock value. That may have been the first time I was palms-to-mouth shocked. Not until the crosswalk incident in the Billy Bob Thornton lawyer show was I that shocked again.
He killed the reporter at the end of the original, so they were quite clever to have her survive season one and then do it immediately.
