main character death cliffhangers

[angelfire east]

I really hate main character scare death cliffhangers

It's like is "Clark greatest future emeny really going to die?" (season 2 & 3). I mean come one! Is Lana really going to die (stay dead)? (season 1, Rackoning) I don't think so.

Chloe's and the Kents scare death chiffhanger didn't scare me. The only scare death chiffhanger that had me worked up was Lionel's (season 1). Will Lex step over the line and let him die? That's a good scare death, why keep doing the same thing over again as was done two seasons in a row with Lex. I hope when this season end there is no main character fake scare deaths.

[brainiacowen]

When Chloe's house blew up, I assumed she was gone...I mean, how would we know? She and Lionel are the only two characters who were made up...

[Ra's Al Ghul]

when the house blew up that really caught me off guard

[brainiacowen]

I know! My first reaction was WHAT? CHLOE NOOOOoooo!

That was such a powerful ending...the Lex part, well...you knew he was going to survive, but the question of HOW was the cliffhanger. The writer's dropped the ball with the whole blood purifying thing. It's kind of lame and besides that...they just dropped it!

[UpandAtom]

why add a cliffhanger like Lex being poisoned? it seems like something that the writers came up at the last minute and it didn't even have any long term effects.

[Summers]

Heck, Lex dying scares happened in "Exodus" with plane crash as well. Yea, like he is going to die. Give me break writers :lol:. The poison plotline went into those blasted Lex's text messages and that's where it ended :mad:. So lame.

[LexLuthorMetropolis]

It didn't help that they didn't give us much to even go by to explain his sudden cure (except for the Verizon Wireless messages), which felt like they were ignoring other viewers instead of putting it into the main storyline. Same goes for Mxy leaving 33.1

[UpandAtom]

The only characters that could be placed in death cliffhangers are Lionel, Chloe, Jonathan, and Martha (plus whatever new character they make up for the show).

[MBCorp]

Ack, the Verizon email messages, oh god how I loathed those dratted things. Remember how Lex didn't get hardly any screentime 4th season and all of his character development went into those cursed Verizon emails? :mad: What got me was that people argued that they should be considered canon when the show never alluded to them at all.

[UpandAtom]

The show did allude to them back in "Spirit".

[Summers]

Plus not everyone has Verizon, access to the Net, and many still don't know about it. It's like it never happened except for those of us that remembers :\.

[MBCorp]

You mean the scene where we see a very brief glance of Jason looking at Lex's emails? Sorry, that really doesn't count for me. I meant the show never alluded to them in a substantional way. Like nothing that was mentioned in the emails ever showed up on the show or in any of the plots.

[Summers]

Originally posted by UpandAtom
The show did allude to them back in "Spirit".

Allude's the word but you needed a quick eye to see the subject heading, and to know what was in the emails itself. A casual viewer now wouldn't think nothing of them, or a person who doesn't know about those text messages. So the plotlines 33.1, Mxy, and the poison looked dropped.

[MBCorp]

Originally posted by Summers
Plus not everyone has Verizon, access to the Net, and many still don't know about it. It's like it never happened except for those of us that remembers :\.

I still see people starting threads wondering about Lex's illness. :\

[Summers]

Originally posted by MBCorp
I still see people starting threads wondering about Lex's illness. :\

Remember a long time ago you, me, Timester, and VB said that would happen. Look and behold. I see it on other boards as well.

[MBCorp]

Sad thing is, I don't think there's anyway for people to read them now. It's not like they're up on any sort of website or anything that people could go to. I can't consider something canon that the majority of SV viewers don't know about and have no way of knowing about.

[LanaandPete]

Nope, fans can't read up on the text messages. I wish Almiles appeared at Comic Con this year for fans to question them, but I guess they knew that, so thats why they hid

[UpandAtom]

if a fan is really dedicated to finding out about the e-mails, they can search through the KryptonSite archives.

[Summers]

Still doesn't account to the many fans who don't know about them ;). That's doesn't make a majority.

[LexLuthorMetropolis]

Yeah, honestly the biggest portion of the fans aren't going to find the website and dig through it to find it.

[angelfire east]

Originally posted by Summers
Heck, Lex dying scares happened in "Exodus" with plane crash as well. Yea, like he is going to die. Give me break writers :lol:. The poison plotline went into those blasted Lex's text messages and that's where it ended :mad:. So lame.

That's what I mean! It's like come one, try to think of something better for a chiffhanger if there has to be chiffhangers.

That's what really bugs me, we just lame scare death chiffhanger and somone of them don't go anyway. I don't count those stupid text message, since like many of the fans never got to see them and never will.

[UpandAtom]

Originally posted by angelfire east
That's what I mean! It's like come one, try to think of something better for a chiffhanger if there has to be chiffhangers.

That's what really bugs me, we just lame scare death chiffhanger and somone of them don't go anyway. I don't count those stupid text message, since like many of the fans never got to see them and never will.

Think of individual episode cliffhangers as well. Like in "Lineage" when Pamela held Lex hostage. Did we really believe that he was going to die? The same thing goes for any regular in that situation.

[angelfire east]

Yes but leaving the fans for a few months with a chiff hanger and a individual chiffhangers are a bit different. I dunno maybe I'm the only one but if we going to have chiffhangers for the end of each season I'd liked something better then 'will Lex die was his poisoned drink'?

[UpandAtom]

The cliffhanger in "Exodus" was more than will Lex die? We were supposed to wonder what happened to Helen and the pilot.

[Clark's Angel]

What are the e-mails you're mentioning? I'm so lost right now. . . . It's actually been said why Lex didn't need the blood purifying treatment anymore?

[UpandAtom]

The e-mails were released by the WB and Verizon last year as a marketing gimmick. They served to tie up some loose ends on the show and foreshadow future plots.

[Clark's Angel]

What kind of loser would tie up loose ends on something that isn't actually the show? *raises eyebrow* Whatever, getting over it. What did they contain anyway?

[Jellie]

I agree the emails were redundant (I didnt even know about the emails)

Im not sure what the emails contained. I think one of them was about Lex being cured from his blood poisoning. Other than that I dont really know

[UpandAtom]

One of the e-mails mentioned Mxyzptlk getting his powers back.

[Clark's Angel]

So mainly just things they'd dropped from the actual storyline and didn't feel like using up air time to mention again?

[Summers]

Basically yea. They concluded storylines by the means of those emails and now the Chronicles, but to a vast majority of people who do not know of them. They are essentially to many, many people dropped storylines. To me if it's not mentioned specifically by verbal dialogue, then it turns into another dropped storyline.

[UpandAtom]

The e-mails would fall under the same category as the Ledger and Torch. You don't need them to know the story, but you'll understand it better if you read them.