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Fuming in Tropeland
Sep. 16th, 2018 05:06 pmI have been watching “Killjoys” since the beginning (2015), ten episodes a season, more or less. By that scheme, there should be one more episode in season four, but the IMDb makes it look like nothing until 2019, which will be the last bunch of episodes. There has always been a huge body count, including some strategic characters. Central to all plots are the combinations of found family and genetic family, and my attraction to that aspect has not dimmed. Interesting world building. Quirky spelling. Lots of good stuff.
After Friday’s episode, though, I am feeling peevish enough that I may give up on it.
I did some rummaging through TV tropes and discovered that I could slot it into “Someone has to die” with a subset of “convenient terminal illness.”
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SomeoneHasToDie
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConvenientTerminalIllness
Were the writers trying to get rid of two characters at once (the non-dead one has left out of distress)? Other plot points did not demand this level of sacrifice. The probably terminal illness might have led to the same effect sooner or later, but still.
After Friday’s episode, though, I am feeling peevish enough that I may give up on it.
I did some rummaging through TV tropes and discovered that I could slot it into “Someone has to die” with a subset of “convenient terminal illness.”
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SomeoneHasToDie
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConvenientTerminalIllness
Were the writers trying to get rid of two characters at once (the non-dead one has left out of distress)? Other plot points did not demand this level of sacrifice. The probably terminal illness might have led to the same effect sooner or later, but still.
