SPOILER ALERT! The full edition of this post, if you choose to read it all, includes spoilers from the following series: Castle, Chuck, Damages, Fringe, Ghost Whisperer, How I Met Your Mother, The Secret Circle, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries. If you have yet to see the most recent episodes of any of these series and plan to: steer clear.
I've watched enough
Chuck episodes to know that whenever Chuck, Sarah, and Casey are
thisclose to getting a gun shot at them in close range: it won't happen. I've read enough forum posts to know that
The Vampire Diaries showrunners would never in their right mind consider killing off Damon. I've witnessed
Fringe kill off its leading lady to then promptly change timelines entirely.
And yet, TV shows continue to test my intelligence by not only creating scenarios based on a main character's supposed impending death but by centering
entire episodes around it. Basically: a waste of my — and your — time.
But does death, the lack of characters dying, and resurrection of some characters via ghosts actually ruin TV shows, or at least the seriousness of death itself within that series? …
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