"I thought it was very interesting that at the end of To The Lighthouse we have Charley all in slow mo going out in a blaze of glory and we a slow, dramatic music, sequence of Sarah finding Charley's body in the water...

And the very next episode, 15 minutes in we have Derek who is a main character, die so suddenly, so needlessly, so not-drawn out with slow mo in a blaze of glory and it was very... startling. It made an impact, it made a point. That's his life and that's his death. He's there to fight a war.. sometimes to save lives, sometimes to take lives. Every meal he has, he never knows if that's his last one. And in a moment, in an instant.. he's just gone. That's war. He was a soldier and that was a soldier's death. No heroics. No music. No dying last words. Just.. gone.

As much as I was shocked and hated the fact that he died, I sort of appreciated the way he went down. "

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I think Derek's death hurt even more because Derek as a character sort of went downhill in S2. While there were some awesome things about Derek in this last season.. he just wasn't used to his full capability. So it left SO much more work to be done with his character in relation to the others and with his death... all those possibilities die as well. It's like a double whammy :("