Which episode or character death had more of an impact on you? Which episode do think was better?
Personally Time stands still had more of an impact on me because that episode had me tearing up.
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Which episode or character death had more of an impact on you? Which episode do think was better?
Personally Time stands still had more of an impact on me because that episode had me tearing up.
The shooting is definitely moar powahfull by over nine thousand miles.
Okay, now that the obligatory memes are taken care of, I should point out an important difference:
JT's death: Stupid school rivalry is stupid.
Rick's death: Rick's death actually, you could get inside Rick's head. He was the hero, until he became an hero. There's also the mirror set up. Rick was killed by Sean, who was said to be just like Rick way back in season 1. (We didn't really see Sean doing anything bad until season 3, and even then, it was at the "stupid kids" level.)
To me, it's apples & oranges.
TSS had the advantage of being a 2-parter; plus, there was really a long build-up to it, going back to when Rick & Terri were dating. You kind of had a feeling that something bad was going to happen...just not what. When it did, it wasn't much of a surprise. Lack of surprise lessens the impact for me. There WAS a certain level of "I can't believe I just saw that!" to it...another plus.
RTT was, as stated earlier, too short...and, really, kinda random. Less of a build-up, tho. TOTALLY caught me by surprise. I expected a lot more back-n-forth between Lakehurst & Degrassi before (pardon the pun) cutting to the chase. Also, you'd expect a periferal character like Rick not to survive something (a Lt. Redshirt); not a character that shows up in the opening credits every season from day one!!!
I'd be hard put to say which one is "better" or affected me more.
Wait it was filler so why was JT killed?
I'm pretty sure it was just for shock value.
^ That's what I heard too, no way he was kicked off. seen a video of his last day, seems like he was really close with everyone on the set, he seems so sweet. i think rick's was pretty well set up, and i always enjoy seeing how they do school shooting episodes, and i think degrassi did it pretty well.
I think it was well done and the lead up was great. it went for more than one season and the impacts of it are, well their remaining in every episode that jimmy stars in. the shooting itself was also well done, all brilliantly acted out and it was still shocking even if you knew it was coming, if that makes sense. i liked the sean/rick fight, and the way we weren't shown who was shot. i liked the sean storyline following afterwards, even though sean annoys the hell out of me in most of his stories.
however, jt's death hit me more emotionally because i loved his character. but i did think they could have had a bit more of the lakehurst war rather than the 2 or 3 episodes it did go for, it should have dragged on a bit longer, it seemed to escalate a little too quickly to be realistic. but it still made me cry and so did liberty's reaction.
