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Nov 21
2009
01:30 PM ET
What TV or movie death scenes have left you disappointed?
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Faraday’s death scene on Lost. I know kinda weird mom killing you even though she didn’t know who you were but was still disappointed.
I totally agree. I loved his character!!
Agree 100%! He just walks into a campsite waving a gun like a wildman!
It was dissapointing in that he was my favorite character, but not dissapointing in the fact that it was by far the COOLEST death scene ever in Lost. So all in all, not a dissapointment.
totally! wtf?! They just HAD to kill Faraday, one of the BEST ALL TIME CHARACTERS ever on Lost. I was devastated.
biggest death scene disappointment was jack in “the shining.” i was waiting for the big hotel explosion (like in the book)and all we got was a shot of a frozen jack in the maze…what???
Maybe thats why Stephen King wanted another Shining made for tv.
the tv version was VASTLY superior to kubricks suck-fest. ive always enjoyed when a live-action version of a book has more in common with the book than just character names.
dumbledore’s death in the half-blood prince was very anti-climactic.
Buffy’s death @ the end of season 5. She jumped off a tower and … no blood, no mangled limbs, her white sweater wasn’t even dirty. There may have been a smudge on her cheek, but she looked like she had just laid down for a nap. It could have been done better; Angel’s death @ the end off season 2 was the high point of the whole series.
Kimberly’s death on the original Melrose Place. She blew up the building, had two alternate personalities (Rita the biker chick and Betsy the homicidal 1950s housewife), threatened Sydney with a blowtorch, ran Michael down with a car dressed as Jane, became a sex addict with a radio call-in show, commandeered a mental hospital and tried to give Peter a lobotomy… but was done in mid-5th-season by a quick, painless brain aneurysm.
I’m not sure this is considered “disappointing” in the way the pop watch author meant, but William Peterson’s character in “To Live and Die in LA” was very sudden and jarring, even all these years later.
Don;t know if anyone remebers, but at the end of “Alpha Dog” when Anton Yelchin gets shot, i just felt let down. Looked like it was on a green screen, and the emotional buildup was great, felt it didn;t do justicce
The old lady in The Towering Inferno that Fred Astaire was in love with. When she was climbing down the stairs with Paul Newman, there was a perfect opportunity for her to die because it was so suspenseful and it seemed like she was going to fall down. But she never died until later when they were all on the elevator and she fell out of it. it was not surprising and her death did not make me sad because it was not the right time for her to die. yeah she got to say goodbye to fred astaire, but the death on the stairs would have been more suspenseful and saddening.
My candidate for most disappointing TV death scene: The pointless, unnecessarily gruesome death of Xena, Warrior Princess in the contrived, poorly written series finale. After being beheaded by one of the most ridiculous villains in the series (a “Japanese” general with a New Zealand accent!), poor Xena’s bloody headless body was stripped, defiled, and strung up. Worst TV series finale ever. F U Rob Tapert, you jackass!
I agree. AWFUL way to end the series.
Agreed about Jack shooting Curtis on 24
Henry Blake’s death on MASH will always disturb me
While a fairly satisfying series finale, the death of Emma Caulfield’s Anya in the last episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer was kind of lame. It was like well we have to kill someone and she is the only character who wasn’t originally on the show… so yeah. Slice her in half real quick. wait what?
True enough. I felt bad for Anya. I actually think Spike’s death in that episode is exactly how you do kill off a popular character in a series finale. I was almost disappointed that he was resurrected in Angel because it took some of the power of his death away from that episode.
I read that Emma Caulfield asked to be killed off.
I agree on the Spike thing. I was like wow, now that is a way to go, and then he comes back on Angel? It deflated his death and made it seem like a fluke. It would have been so much more powerful a death if he’d stayed dead.
Anya’s death had decent set-up, because she was finally embracing being human and accepting the consequences of being a puny mortal human… but then she dies and the only person that seems to care is Xander. So, liked the ramdom slashing in half (oof!), didn’t like the aftermath.
RE: The Deathly Hallows: (SPOILERS) Tonks, Lupus, etc. etc. Just by the way here they are, you know, dead. And oh, by the way, their battles were epic, but not gonna share the details with you.
*Lupin. Yeah, I felt really cheated when Harry just found them in the hall, and we didn’t even get to witness their death scenes. It was still really shocking though.
SO cheated. Oh so cheated. Worst scene in that book, by far. They were such AMAZING characters and we never really got to say good-bye.
Aren’t we supposed to be discussing TV and movies not books?
…It will be a movie, eventually…
How has no one mentioned Randall Flagg of The Stand/Dark Tower fame? Decades of character buildup and the dude was snuffed by a baby. I love the King, but come on.
exactly! i read “the stand” after i read “dark tower” and i thought the bomb explosion and disintegration of flagg’s body was more climatic than evil baby spider eating him.
Definitely for me it was when Cyclops died in that last X-Men movie. Why was he even in the movie at all?
I totally agree
Agree. I loved Cyclops and i hated the way they just threw him aside like he didn’t matter anymore.
Yup. The worst part of a sub-par movie.
Cyclops was a low point of that whole franchise.
Even Brian Singer never really handled Cyclops correctly (who is supposed to be a capable leader, but is second banana to Wolverine in the movies, and doesn’t do much of anything in the 2nd one). And then they just kill him.
Xavier’s death was properly shocking though.
Yeah, Cyclops’ death was VERY poorly done. I was very disappointed with that…however, James Marsden only had a limited time to film X-Men 3 because he was set to shoot Superman Returns so he had to be killed off but I don’t think it was handled well.
James T. Kirk’s final moments were the most disappointing, especially his last words.