The only thing that makes me feel better about it at all is knowing that Henson was in on it from the beginning and didn't want to stay on the show. It doesn't help to know that Carter had a completed arc, because I don't mind so much that she died (from a Watsonian perspective) as how they did it. I'm the first to stand up and cheer when a show kills a character off right, but I want to feel sad when it happens, or furious at the person who killed them - not just kind of blank and incredulous and focusing more on the betrayal of canon and tone than the actual death.

Maybe next week will make up for this somehow, but I'm doubting it. And even if so, it's still going to be hard to rewatch the episode that should have been pivotal and tremendously moving.