{"id":12865,"date":"2008-09-16T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/16\/weakest-deaths-in-scifi.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:51:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:51:58","slug":"weakest_deaths_in_scifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/weakest_deaths_in_scifi.html","title":{"rendered":"Weakest Deaths in SciFi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via BD<\/a>, this charming list of the 12 Weakest Deaths in Science Fiction History<\/a>. My comments:<\/p>\n

12. Shepherd Book (Serenity)<\/em><\/strong>: Aside from being one of my favorite Firefly <\/em>characters, his death not not only robs Wash’s of impact, but it just comes off as “we didn’t know what to do with him, we only had one day to shoot with him, let’s make him motivate Mal then shift off this mortal coil.” Yes, I know there’s more to it than that, but I would rather have simply not seen him in the movie at all.<\/p>\n

11. Marcus Cole (Babylon 5)<\/em><\/strong>: Actually, it was a freaking fantastic death, spot on in character, driven by all sorts of foreshadowed motivations (and plot devices (literally a device) that had been pooh-poohed back in season 1). It just turned out to be an utter waste when Claudia Christian decided to leave the series the next season for a fabulously better-paying motion picture career<\/a>.<\/p>\n

10. Pantha (Teen Titans \/ Infinite Crisis)<\/em><\/strong>: Yeah, yet another in a series of “hey s\/he’s a cool comic book character we haven’t seen for a while, so let’s kill him\/her off to how how Evil the new Evil Baddy is.” Feh.<\/p>\n

9. Carson Beckett (Stargate)<\/em><\/strong>: Never watched it.<\/p>\n

8. The Lone Gunmen (The Lone Gunmen\/X-Files)<\/em><\/strong>: Never watched ’em. Wait, I think I did watch one episode of their show, but never followed up on it.<\/p>\n

7. Trinity (Matrix: Revolutions)<\/em><\/strong>: Never watched any of them after the first one. Nothing I’ve heard has encouraged me to rectify that situation. A pity, I did like Trinity.<\/p>\n

6. Hicks (Aliens 3)<\/em><\/strong>: Yeah, right along with Newt. Because nothing makes one of the best SF Action Flicks Evah (Aliens) better than having made it all meaningless by killing off the people Ripley had saved.<\/p>\n

5. Louanne “Kat” Katraine (Battlestar Galactica<\/em>)<\/strong>: Never that fond of her.<\/p>\n

4. Judge Giant (Judge Dredd)<\/em><\/strong>: Never read anything with him.<\/p>\n

3. Cyclops (X-Men 3)<\/em><\/strong>: Yeah … what’s with that? An off-screen death for one of the seminal characters? Of course, the movie has tons of other problems, too, but … My related runner-up: Phoenix, in X-Men <\/em>#137, which was a great death that was steadily robbed of all meaning and reality by resurrecting Jean Gray and, over the course of two decades, trampling the X-continuity into a muddy mire.<\/p>\n

2. The Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who)<\/em><\/strong>: Never heard this anecdote. Funny. And, yeah, kind of lame.<\/p>\n

1. Captain Kirk (Star Trek: Generations)<\/em><\/strong>: Never saw it.<\/p>\n

HONORABLE MENTION: Boba Fett (Return of the Jedi)<\/em><\/strong>: Yeah. Galaxy’s most kicking-ass bounty hunter (whom we’ve never seen actually do much of anything), and he gets accidentally kicked into a monster’s maw. Terribly, terribly weak.<\/p>\n

Any others I would add? Can’t think of any offhand, though commenters included all the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith<\/em>, and Tasha Yar (yeah, that’s pretty good, save that she was a lame character to begin with).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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