ACFan71 — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 03:54 PM)

I am not sure if calling them "impulse killers" is the correct term for what I have in mind, but in a lot of the episodes the victim is killed by someone who really cares for them, but lashes out in the heat of passion or fails to intervene, which leads to the victim's death. Lashing out examples include
The Debut
,
The Crossing
,
It's Raining Men
,
The Sleepover
,
The Hen House
, among others. And for failing to intervene, I would put
Stand Up and Holler
in this category.
So, my question is, of those who did not fully intend to kill the person, who do you sympathize with? Who do you not? And not to split hairs, but I think that the "killer" in
The River
and in
Boy Crazy
are not strictly speaking responsible because
the victims in those cases asked to be killed
.
To start off, I don't find the killer in
The Sleepover
to be sympathetic, despite the fact that
she was a young girl
. And I don't think that the victim in
It's Raining Men
would have
outed his brother
, which seemed to be the primary reason for the death, plus the death was rather brutal.
I'm having a hard time coming up with sympathetic impulse killers (I think that
The Blackout
might fit the bill, but I am hazy on the details as I haven't seen it in years), which is partly why I asked the question.