Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-29295148-20160825214302/@comment-25396609-20160920041433

One of the many reasons we enjoy things is that we connect to them on an emotional level; the things that happen to the characters cause us to have similar reactions to if we they had happened to real people.

By having things happen in a somewhat realistic way (such as a seemingly random or pointless death) the level at which we can associate with the show deepends.

This is one of the reasons series like A song of Ice and Fire are so popular; despite being fantasy, they have a strong degree of realism. Deaths have consequence, people die for seemingly no reason before they can achieve their so-called "destiny" and neither the heroes or villain is ever guaranteed to come out unscathed.

If you want something where nobody ever dies for real, and everything has a neat and tidy ending, go watch a sitcom.