I'm very sorry to hear that this person lost his life, and I do understand the need for those who cared for him to mourn.
Although, under the risk of coming off as unfeeling, I must say that there was nothing special about 2016 in this regard, and 2017 won't be any different.
People die every year, including celebrities, but more often then not it goes unnoticed except for those who were very invested in that person's life and career. There was a few more still proeminent celebrities die in 2016, if you look specifically at anglo-saxon originated pop culture, but the same is not true for other people. Maybe in 2015 there was a bunch of french or german celebrity deaths that we simply never heard of.
What I'm trying to say is that people see patterns where there are none, and make sure future data fits into that pattern. It happened in 2016 when a couple of high profile celebrities died in January and people started seeing it as the year where celebrities died like flies. Then people and news sources started regarding every single celebrity death not as its own tragic little event, as every loss of life is, or perhaps outright ignoring it and letting it happen in the same peaceful anonimity so many of us enjoy, but as part of an ongoing story that can be easily packaged and sold to people: "2016 Strikes Again!", and in the process it may have robbed a lot of those deaths of some of their quiet dignity for the sake of creating a media circus around it, however small each may have been. The same may happen this year. If people are seeking celebrity deaths they will find them, and award 2017 with the same hellish year brand 2016 received.
I know none of this is your intention. Clearly you care about Allo Allo, this person and their work and I see how genuinely upset you must be.
Forgive this small and petty little rant, but the public's attitude to the year of 2016, particularly in regards to death, has irked me quite a bit, and I really hope to not see it repeated in 2017.
Post edited January 23, 2017 by DaCostaBR
