#like. everything

okay, let’s see here. I’m gonna go mostly through the “all my faves are dead” deaths because otherwise it’s just too broad. also for obvious reasons: here be #spoilers for just about everything, so, like. be aware of that

including: Lymond Chronicles, Black Sails, A Song of Ice and Fire, the MCU, BBC Merlin, Wheel of Time, Angel, The Silmarillion, and Malazan: Book of the Fallen.

when it comes to deaths that I liked (for a given value of “liked” as in “thought were effective, upsetting but didn’t make me angry on a narrative level”) - I think of Anomander Rake, Maeglin, basically every Feanorian (basically everyone who dies in the Silmarillion, really). Erik Killmonger, actually - I love him and I would’ve liked to see more of him, and I will read all of the fix-it fic where he lives, but his death worked for me. Robb Stark is another one where, while it was/is intensely upsetting to me that he died, it doesn’t make me angry that he did. Light Yagami’s death at the end of Death Note. 

Charles Vane in Black Sails; while I’m mad about it on some level, it was also really well done and certainly effective. 

actually, even (to a certain extent) Morgana in BBC Merlin - while overall her character got shafted in a lot of ways, I don’t actually think her death was a bad move. I just wish the way they’d gotten there, and the way her face turn had been written, had been done better.

deaths I didn’t like - the one I’ve been loudest about for the past year has been Loki, obviously, and also Gamora. Since it came up recently I’m also putting Marthe in this category, and I maintain that Egwene was also thoroughly unnecessary. Fred and Cordelia in Angel. I don’t feel great about Eleanor in Black Sails, though I can live with hers better than I would expect.