That's cheesey. How many times have heros/heorins been saved from a danglinbg cliff?
I do not think sad endings are cliched (Sorry, I really can't be ****ed figuring out the alt combination for that accented 'e'). But sad endings resulting in the death of a main character are rather overused. If there was to be a depressing end, I would hope it to be an intelligent kind of depression. As in, making the viewer feel sad without killing something.
Otherwise, I'm all for the killing.
