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What are the five most depressing episodes/chapters/scenes?
(They are in descending order of most depressing to least.)
1. The ending of Star Wars: Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith- it always manages to make me cry like a baby. (The whole ten minutes right up to the ending credits, yep.)
2. The Doomsday episode of Doctor Who. 'Nuff said.
3. The amnesia arc in Hana Yori Dango- I know it's not real sad, and everything ends happily ever after, but it was depressing for me to read, and I was counting the chapters, and looking ahead for when Tsukasa would finally remember Tsukushi.
4. The ending of The Kouga Ninja Scrolls- basically everyone dies; no one of twenty people lives. And the chapter is, appropriately, entitled The Last Battle.
5. The most depressing episode of Kyle XY for me, so far, was The List is Life episode (?)- the one where Lori & Declan break up.
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As a side note this is the best thing I've read so far:
It's not easy confronting these things and sometimes I think fen want easy answers. Not a lot of extrapolation is given to Padmé's psyche but I think that with what's there, you can pick up the clues. In TPM, Padmé the person had to be subsumed under the strong leader Amidala. She might have been good at statecraft but outside of her cadre of handmaidens, did she really have any friends? Nope, not until she met lil' Ani. While I'm sure she loved her family and they loved her, she had been separated from them pretty much since childhood. She's the boarding school girl who didn't get to go home at the end of the year. As soon as she steps off the throne, she's a Senator. No time for dating or anything resembling a normal life for a girl her age. Again, aside from her handmaidens, she probably didn't have any real friends her age. Then hot grown-up Anakin reappears in her life and he's interested in Padmé the woman, not the Senator. For the first time in her life, she learns what it is like to be wanted, to be desired by someone. Especially a someone who's willing to sacrifice his own career, heck his life, for her. Throw in some dangerous situations, emotional drama, and some time alone on the most romantic planet in the galaxy, Padmé is as good as gone. She'd have to be more pious than Joan of Arc to turn down Anakin after all of that. He gives her something missing from her emotional life and once she has it, it's not easy for her to give it up. Both she and Anakin craved intimacy on an emotional and psychological level as well as a physical one, and for a while they were able to give that to each other.
The link to the rest of the article. (Although I pretty much copied the whole article on here.)
It defends Padmé, although I don't know why some people are...critical of her, I guess (haven't come across anything bad about Padmé, but I suppose it's out there). I know she has some faults, but as the article talks about, she's human; of course she's gonna have faults. Most of the characters in SW have faults. But do we all love them regardless? YES.
(They are in descending order of most depressing to least.)
1. The ending of Star Wars: Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith- it always manages to make me cry like a baby. (The whole ten minutes right up to the ending credits, yep.)
2. The Doomsday episode of Doctor Who. 'Nuff said.
3. The amnesia arc in Hana Yori Dango- I know it's not real sad, and everything ends happily ever after, but it was depressing for me to read, and I was counting the chapters, and looking ahead for when Tsukasa would finally remember Tsukushi.
4. The ending of The Kouga Ninja Scrolls- basically everyone dies; no one of twenty people lives. And the chapter is, appropriately, entitled The Last Battle.
5. The most depressing episode of Kyle XY for me, so far, was The List is Life episode (?)- the one where Lori & Declan break up.
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As a side note this is the best thing I've read so far:
It's not easy confronting these things and sometimes I think fen want easy answers. Not a lot of extrapolation is given to Padmé's psyche but I think that with what's there, you can pick up the clues. In TPM, Padmé the person had to be subsumed under the strong leader Amidala. She might have been good at statecraft but outside of her cadre of handmaidens, did she really have any friends? Nope, not until she met lil' Ani. While I'm sure she loved her family and they loved her, she had been separated from them pretty much since childhood. She's the boarding school girl who didn't get to go home at the end of the year. As soon as she steps off the throne, she's a Senator. No time for dating or anything resembling a normal life for a girl her age. Again, aside from her handmaidens, she probably didn't have any real friends her age. Then hot grown-up Anakin reappears in her life and he's interested in Padmé the woman, not the Senator. For the first time in her life, she learns what it is like to be wanted, to be desired by someone. Especially a someone who's willing to sacrifice his own career, heck his life, for her. Throw in some dangerous situations, emotional drama, and some time alone on the most romantic planet in the galaxy, Padmé is as good as gone. She'd have to be more pious than Joan of Arc to turn down Anakin after all of that. He gives her something missing from her emotional life and once she has it, it's not easy for her to give it up. Both she and Anakin craved intimacy on an emotional and psychological level as well as a physical one, and for a while they were able to give that to each other.
The link to the rest of the article. (Although I pretty much copied the whole article on here.)
It defends Padmé, although I don't know why some people are...critical of her, I guess (haven't come across anything bad about Padmé, but I suppose it's out there). I know she has some faults, but as the article talks about, she's human; of course she's gonna have faults. Most of the characters in SW have faults. But do we all love them regardless? YES.
