Best death scene of a star in a TV series...

I'm going for either Tasha Yar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Sb9BHmaxU

or

Anyone from Buffy/Angel: Cordelia Chase, Jenny Calendar, Doyle, Tara.

That was strong stuff. I never much got into Babylon 5, but this was very good.

quite like dropping a ship with a couple of 500 megaton bombs.

Even remembering the episode brings tears to my eyes. :cry:

Although Dr. Greene on ER is a close second.

every single time. :cry: :cry: :cry:

poor dude and helicopters

It wasn't the actual dying that did it...it was the horrible goodbye he got at his wake.

You know, the first time.

Col Blake's death, MASH.

Very sweet final scene with her and Archie.

Just watch the final episode and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Probably no one here knows what I'm talking about...

Great character. Such a sad and unexpected death.

Although, in retrospect, I should have known something was up early in the episode when his story arc became: "Hey guys! Guess what I'm going to do when I get home from Vietnam?"

That was the death sentence right there...

...but don't have a clear memory of the character/death scene. Now that you mention it, though, it's familiar. Of course the cliche is always the guy that's going home or almost ready to retire....

Not so with Doc Matsuda.

It was an episode in which the company gets a new CO, an ambitious staff flunky who requests a combat command in order to further his career. He turns out to be hopelessly incompetent.

The firebase is besieged by NVA regulars who overrun the base at the end killing Matsuda (total surprise; didn't see it coming) and many other supporting characters. Most of the other major figures survived the siege.

...and everyone (especially himself) was sure he'd be killed at the last moment - but he survived and went home?

The first season was not only the best, but it was the only good season of the show. It went rapidly downhill in the second season trying to appeal to a broader audience, including women.

There was an episode in the first season in which Marcus Taylor was preparing to go home when he finds out his girlfriend has dumped him and his Detroit neighborhood has been demolished due to urban renewal. A fast-talking recruiter convinces him to re-enlist. When his platoon buddies find out about it, they manage to steal the re-enlistment papers and destroy them, allowing Taylor to go home. Taylor, however, changes his mind and stays for a second tour.

Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHwaFzzbkQ

:P

oh wait that was supposed to be acting!

That or Lorne Greene in Battlestar Galactica. :D

involving blow up sex dolls and Rapture Ready woman = the single best death scene even committed to film and possibly the best death scene ever conceived by the human mind.

Great TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk1pOUb8a_g

Acting! Genius!

It's a very, very nuanced performance.

Dennis Franz played a cop transferred from another precinct who never fit in, for several seasons. The captain kept making crazy demands on him, like delaying an undercover sting until the bad guy cut his finger off. So he went dirty and stole drugs or money (I forget which), and through a sequence of events I can't remember, he wound up held up in a bank vault with the rest of the precinct surrounding him, about to arrest him. He started the normal "reflect on the sadness of life before killing yourself" bit, and while most of the cops tried to talk him out of it, JD (the off-and-on alcoholic with his own problems) yelled out "Do the right thing!" A moment later you hear the gun shot.

Powerful scene, I always thought.

Franz played a very bad cop, Sal Benedetto who offed himself on Hill Street Blues but then they brought him back as Norman Buntz.

Buntz's HSB storyline ended by his punching out the chief and then spinning off with Sid (Peter Jurasik) the Snitch to his own show Beverly Hills Buntz.

I didn't know what order I was watching it. Didn't realize it was a different character and that the suicide came first. :)

The original Stig, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiJkQzpzRc

from the Wire. Stringer Bell, Omar,...

One of the few times a TV show made me cry

Sayid in the same catastrophe. :(

So he had it coming...

I never did understand why he didn't step through and close the door from the OUTSIDE though.

I was BAWLING. Just BAWLING.

even though I knew it wasn't permanent. The actress who played Sun is really amazing.

Second best Lost death was Charlie.

Most of the rest just pissed me off.

He was dying at the time he filmed that, and it was remarkable.

Ralph Cifaretto's undoing was also quite memorable... the fight with Tony and the subsequent dismemberment of his remains.

I'd forgotten about Bobby's death in the Hobby Shop, but that was another good one. As were the deaths of the various thorns in Tony's side--Ralph, Ritchie Aprile at Janet's hand, and Tony Uncle-Al on the porch ...

runs a close second to Jimmy Smits for me.

Probably the best season ender I've ever seen.

Boy, did that make me cry. And, mad that they did that. x(

it set the standard at the time for unusual (and often hilarious, offbeat) happenings.

to check that the elevator is really there before getting on.
I was young and impressionable when I saw that. 12 or 13 I think. It was one of my parents favorite shows.

OK, not a star but a regular character.

Just because of the way it happened.

It was in a poison knife fight, but as many star trek fans know, that was not her end.



Star Trek: TNG "All Good Things"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqe1m2p1BVM

where they sent him off to a fine new life in civilian practice in the States, and his plane got shot down over the Sea of Japan.

Freezes to death in his own psychotic weather machine. :rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkUmKtd0ek

I'd forgotten why we called him Mikkos Colicos.

Thanks for the memory nudge!

In the movie "Serenity", made to wrap up the story of "Firefly", they killed off Wash! I'll never forgive them for that!

Biker's Old Lady

Chuckles the Clown on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Welcome to DU

:cry: really did not want his character to go that way.

...on third watch. Actually, I think she got blown in half. I don't remember. I just remember her landing and her legs landing next to her. She said it was freezing that day and took hours to shoot.

He was blown up...listerally blown up and bits of him went everywhere. It was disgusting and a total shock.

Rita, the used car salesman, the first guy Dexter kills in the pilot, the corrupt DA, and even Doakes all had memorable deaths.

Series, we have to include him here, at least a few of his deaths were pretty spectacular.