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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Hatter" data-source="post: 2723537" data-attributes="member: 23731">I think everyone might agree that the lead up is what makes the death or what happened before and what happened after is the thing that drives the mood.  Tara's death was tragic because she and Willow had finally talked...really really talked.  They were on the mend...and then wham!  Tara's dead by the hands of the Trio who up until that point were cartoonish and not real villains to the Scoobies and Buffy.  And you had significant character development in pretty much everyone on that show including Andrew and Jonathan.  Even Buffy's multiple deaths were led up to very well and I thought the aftermath of each was brilliant.I can't comment on GRRM because I haven't read anything by him.  To me, the death can be completely random thing that happens because the poor shmuck was unlucky, but it stands the test of reason when you examine how the author/creator deals with it afterwards.  And the death of a main character does lend realism because these are heroes we're reading about and they get into danger day in and day out. I don't think there's a person out there who will ever be able to convince me that at any given moment a hero shouldn't be knocked off or at least be abused mercilessly.  It just has to flow with the book.  Film noir is a perfect example of this.  In that genre. the good guy isn't so good all the time and he/she goes through hell and back.</blockquote>

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