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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Channing" data-source="post: 412683" data-attributes="member: 10">While on the one hand it's normal to get attached to certain characters and miss them when they're gone, soaps need drama, and there's nothing more dramatic than a character dying, especially an important or well loved one. And if you regularly have characters almost die but end up surviving it undermines the drama of characters in peril because the viewer knows they'll be fine. So now and then you have to follow through.Although I actually really liked all the characters mentioned above, I'm not sure I'd change anything about how and when they exited the show, with the possible exception of Digger, as he died very early in the shows run and the Barnes family was already very small compared to the number of Ewings.</blockquote>