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It's nice to see a main character snuff it. In most stories, the main characters go through hardships and all, but rarely get the axe... even if it's just for a short while, (perhaps the knife sunk into a copy of the Necronomicon or something, and saved his life, ala "bullet deflected by bible"). Though I must say, if someone HAD been hit in that spot (right at the heart, through the lung), there'd not be any time to say tearful goodbyes, as that's a pretty instant death spot... But still. It's a comic. No one important dies unless they get to do a great monolouge or two before they cack it.

You could have the sky erupt in armageddonish fury, the earth beneith the doomed warrior boil and seethe, the air turn to sulpherous death, and the hero would STILL be able to say something pithy before he died. It's one of those rules, like, "There is always glowing fungus of some sort so the night-blind heros can see in the tunnels," and "Any princess needing saved will be beautiful and witty. The more swarthy and handsome her rescuer, the more sharp-tounged and shrewish she will be. Matched luggage optional."

That's a good point. I wish next main character gets his / hers head cut off, just so he / she can't say anything before dying. Except if he's the lich (whateverhisnamewas). Then again, he doesn't truly die ('cause he is already dead).

Pshaw - this was nuthin'. Hamlet gets three pages of dialogue, including three separate soliloquies, between the stabbing and the croaking. After that, anything looks restrained and quick.

i dont know about that, the guy who dies at the end of Robin Hood: Prince of thieves, stumbles around for a good third of the movie after getting a knife in the lung.

Hamlet -- the greatest tale ever told about a big wuss.

Ain't that the truth. I love the play, especially because of the language used, but by the time he's "to a nunnery go"ing, I just want to shake him, slap him, and put him on Zoloft for a while.

If you ever get the chance, listen to the three-minute satire Evans and Doherty did about Hamlet. It's awesome.

I got into real trouble back in my university days on the subject of Hamlet. The prof had spent days going on about the whole concept of the "tragic flaw", and how they destroyed the central characters of the tragedies. Othello was jealous. Macbeth, ambitious. Lear, vain/insane, depending on who you talk to. I wrote up a piece declaring Hamlet's tragic flaw as "wishy-washy". I'd started out by calling him a pussy, but I chickened out.

It's true though...the guy is just an utter jellyfish. No spine, anywhere.

I remember the good old times, when we actually had a moderator on these boards. Will the good times ever come back?



-edit- I just have to say our moderator got WTFPWNT, even if I say so myself -edit-

Not to be rude or anything, man, but you seem to consistently be a jerk on here. Is that just a property of the anonymity of the internet, or are you generally unpleasant?

I phail to see my own jerkism. Please elaborate.

Dude, I mod these boards as I see fit. If you feel something is offtopic, then by all means, PM me and I'll look into it. The subject of whether Glon's death scene connects him to classic tragic literary figures is still within the context of this thread.

Carry on, MacDuffs.

On the Hamlet thing: If we'd swapped Othello with Hamlet, two tradgedies would have been averted.

Death can be a really solidifying force in a story, you get vengance and all that tossed in, especially if it's a father or a son who dies (that's pretty big in literature and myth.. if the son isn't cutting off the father's testicals and throwing them into the ocean where they become the seed of lust goddesses, he's trying to kill him to take the throne or, on the happier note, the son is avenging the father, or saving the father, or whatnot. Gotta love generational angst).

Totally random: A friend of mine was in a produciton of Hamlet. The big death scene, practically everyone dead, corpses all over the place... And the corpse of Hamlet starts sneezing. And sneezing. And then the other corpses start giggling. Then the Hamlet corpse starts giggling too, after he finished sneezing...

Totally ruined the moment.

Also, Bacon.

*Snif* a noble end for a fun character. I admit I was looking forward to him making more of an ass of himself over Arachne... but it was still a mighty plot twist.