Killing a character appreciated on a television series with a fiercely devoted fans base can obviously be quite perilous, especially when they do not know that it happens. It is a particularly difficult decision in the social media era, when viewers can evacuate their fury as the unthinkable and (for some) unacceptable occurs. If you had not read “A Game of Thrones” by George Rr Martin, you were almost certainly cleared during the first season when Ned Stark by Sean Bean, the apparent protagonist of the series, was cruelly executed by this Twerp Joffrey Lannister. Twitter caught fire that evening, with furious newcomers to Martin’s saga committing never to watch another episode. If you had Read Martin’s novel, you were dizzy with the anticipation of knowing a lot, much worse, it was still to come.

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For any writer with less integrity, death is always on the table. You go where the story must go. I wanted a lot Omar by Michael K. Williams To survive the streets of Baltimore in “The Wire”, but his cheeky Robin Hood act had to end with a ball in the dome sooner or later. “The sopranos” was incredibly tough in this regard; There were characters who won their horrible disappearance more than winning, but should they really do poor Adriana (Drea de Matteo) like that?

A series like “9-1-1” is a more delicate affair. It is a rigidly formula procedure, which means that, as long as you know that the actors are contracted to return to the series, you can be quite certain that nobody will catch a bad one. Thus, when the heroic captain of Peter Krause, Bobby Nash, sacrificed himself and died of an Ebola type virus, many fans of the series were inconsolable. Some were apoplectic with rage. Why did the ABC series produced by Ryan Murphy eliminate his co-chief?

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It is not uncommon for a long-lasting series to rein its actors when the series begins to become too expensive in the taste of the network, but, according to the showrunner “9-1-1” Tim Minear, the death of Nash was necessary to make things happen on a series that was going to finish its eighth season. As Minear said variety::

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“I had to convince everyone about it. The network was not like” yeah, get rid of him, it will save us money. “It was nothing like it.

It was a little too real for some fans “9-1-1”, What a former “six feet under” star krause anticipated. So on Thursday after the episode was broadcast, Krause published a statement. “I have heard that many fans are upset by this loss, and they have the right to be,” he said. “It’s a loss.” He then framed Nash’s death to remind you that real heroes risk their lives every day. Per Krause:

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“”[I]It was more than a daring creative choice on a daring show. Bobby Nash was written in sacrifice and was built for this. The first stakeholders risk their lives at work so that others can see another day. His story honors them. At 9-1-1 ‘, we salute all the incredible men and women who do this dangerous work and we strive to keep us safe. Our show is incredibly difficult to do sometimes with long hours, difficult waterfalls and developed disasters. We could not do it with each other. “”

Nash’s latest moments were heartbreaking for the faithful “9-1-1”. Although he was able to offer a farewell in tears to his wife Athena Grant-Nash (Angela Bassett), he made her vital organs were lifting. It’s a awful way of going. Ned Stark has become easy with fast and clean decapitation.