The show I watched earlier seems to have traumatised me.
I was trying to drift off to sleep but the image of a character getting shot in the head kept disturbing me. His head bobbing about like a limp sack of brain-meats as another bullet slammed into it. A character I came to know and feel a certain affection for over four seasons, just cut down in such a brutal-yet-inevitable manner. His pointless death driving home the endless cycle of... well, death and stuff, I guess. Damnit, I was getting all poetic for a moment there and then my brain had to go and ruin it.
I can't remember the last time I got freaked out about something like this.
Oh, wait, yeah last time was probably a death scene in the fourth season of American Horror Story. Damn, that one was a doozy. I find that TV shows, with their far longer running time, really allow one to form more of an attachment to their characters than movies. It tends to be the sudden end of a character that shocks me, rather than the gory details of their demise. Just gruesome deaths on their own usually just make me chuckle, but when it's a character that you've gotten used to having around- like a comfortable, aesthetically pleasing couch in the corner of a room- having them suddenly torn away can be emotionally devastating. Then again that might be because I don't have many friends and thus tend to become way too attached to fictional characters. I dunno.
Sorry for rambling, but I can't sleep. And rambling is a thing I do when I am sleep deprived. A lot.