Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161112032800/@comment-27082610-20161114180451

KNN005 wrote:

1) If you skip the school life and have the story open up with them already friends and just referring to their time growing up thats better IMO than having to see them literally in class.

2) If you have characters die it keeps the cast small preventing a large amount of the cast from being left unused and forgotten. Plus the impact of their death and swansong as they die is like a good send off. That way fans of those characters can't be like "Fox never got to say a word the whole series then he just vanished after season 3".

3) Finally and most important when death happens and doubt arises the hero feels the pain but bounces back in a timely manner. No spending a whole seasons moping around. No whining and bitching about how they "can't save anyone". No turning on their friends and acting like someone forced this life on them.

4) When I write its like here's the point let's go for that. Boom boom boom. Hit all the major plot points. Explain all the motives. Each episode serves its purpose to push story along. And you're done. Move on to new show.

Edit: that wasnt the number of episode in that list before, they were a list of what was covered in the series. 1) No, it doesn't. It removes all reason to care about their relationships if they're all pre-established with only occasional callbacks.

2) Those are all terrible reasons to kill of characters. That last sentence makes me question if you know what a teritiary character is. Not everyone needs/gets a ton of screentime. Trying to do so bloats the series unnecessarily.

3) Once again you discount how human emotions work. Good job.

4) Unlike how you talk.

5) If that's spread across 25 episodes it's still rushes the narrative and slows the action to the point that it's just terrible storytelling and horribly boring to watch.