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Saddest Death
Jun. 28th, 2018 07:52 am28. Saddest death?
Toss up between Regina's and Sam's. Both have issues with fallout but the deaths themselves are both sucker punches. I like that Regina's death has some meaning. It's not simply forgotten in the following book (or the one after that) and that it's brought up more than once or twice because it makes sense for basically the first big death in their class to be mentioned quite a bit. Even moreso when you remember how many people genuinely liked Regina.
Sam's death sparks one of the bigger arcs in the series but after that particular arc is over, they kind of gloss over his death and that's just... weird. I will say that Sam's death was the bigger surprise as I can still remember reading the book and finishing sometime later in the evening and having to call Ari to tell her that HOLYCOW, she'd never believe what happened. And I also remember having to debate with myself if chancing the call was worth it because it was late enough I'd get in trouble if we were busted on the phone. It was, btw, worth it.
It's interesting to me that Olivia's death is probably the most realistic in terms of mourning, though. Ken and Liz both have some serious issues with it over the course of SY.
If Sam's death broke my heart, Regina's shattered it. Olivia I waffle back and forth about whether I even count that part of SVH as canon so...
Also, for how important Sam was to the series, he's on very few book covers.
Toss up between Regina's and Sam's. Both have issues with fallout but the deaths themselves are both sucker punches. I like that Regina's death has some meaning. It's not simply forgotten in the following book (or the one after that) and that it's brought up more than once or twice because it makes sense for basically the first big death in their class to be mentioned quite a bit. Even moreso when you remember how many people genuinely liked Regina.
Sam's death sparks one of the bigger arcs in the series but after that particular arc is over, they kind of gloss over his death and that's just... weird. I will say that Sam's death was the bigger surprise as I can still remember reading the book and finishing sometime later in the evening and having to call Ari to tell her that HOLYCOW, she'd never believe what happened. And I also remember having to debate with myself if chancing the call was worth it because it was late enough I'd get in trouble if we were busted on the phone. It was, btw, worth it.
It's interesting to me that Olivia's death is probably the most realistic in terms of mourning, though. Ken and Liz both have some serious issues with it over the course of SY.
If Sam's death broke my heart, Regina's shattered it. Olivia I waffle back and forth about whether I even count that part of SVH as canon so...
Also, for how important Sam was to the series, he's on very few book covers.