Will Joss kill off another character in S2?
POSTED BY: Hixie129
UPDATED: Sunday, February 26, 2006 22:33
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Ok, asarian but you gotta admit that joss might kill off the character, it is remote.. very remote.
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I love my Simon, but I think he's got the biggest target on his chest. Of course, if he wanted to end the series all together, he'd kill Kaylee or Mal. If one of them dies, we know it's over...can't live without heart or soul.
Simon
Inara
Jayne
Zoe
River
Mal
Kaylee
This isn't crew importance. It's just plot significance. Simon goes out...River and Kaylee are lost in the wind. They get lost, the ship falls apart. River's death will destroy Simon and Mal. Mal's death will break River, Inara and Kaylee. Kaylee's death would rip the ship apart. The ship loses Kaylee, the ship can no longer fly.
Feel free to completely disagree. It's more fun that way. :-)
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Originally posted by Hixie129:
Ok, asarian but you gotta admit that joss might kill off the character, it is remote.. very remote.
I honestly cannot see that happen (in every way thinkable). Without River, there's no FireFly. The best thing to do, if someone must die per se, would then be to kill off all the other characters first, and just keep River. :)
No, seriously, let's not kill any of the crew. I'm still trying to cope with Washes death. And if Joss really kills off the River character, or has her sent off somewhere, then I will take my Browncoat, gently hand it to the person next to me, and leave the theatre. Then I will go home, and weep uncontrollably for weeks. :( Seriously, even the thought alone gets me all terrified.
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Yeah,
River has way to much potential character development to kill off hand and she still has a lot of secrets wrapped up in her head that will take many episodes/seasons/BDMs to develop.
Think of what the possibilities could be.
* She knows the secret of "earth that was"
* Figures out how to stop the Reavers
* Starts her own cult.
* Dark River Saga - where river becomes a type of villian.
* Mal kills River in the climactic show finally or vise versa 
.
Oh the potential 
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Yeh, without River it would never be the same.
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I believe it's likely that Inara's going to be killed off next, most of this this is based off pure speculation though. But, if she were killed, I think that Mal and the rest of the crew would lament, but would go on nonetheless. It's also very plausible that Jayne will be killed, probably in a noble way...or betraying the crew in some way, (he's capable of it, you know) but I don't think he would do it a second time. I don't know, maybe I just didn't get those subtle plot messages everyone's referring to, maybe they're relevant as well.
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No, seriously, let's not kill any of the crew. I'm still trying to cope with Washes death.
Yes, that was difficult to cope with, Wash was one of my favorite characters, I was aghast when he was killed in Serenity; he was so vulnerable, it was easy to identify with him and how he dealt with everything. I think he was one of the most interesting characters, and he just had to be killed...
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No, seriously, let's not kill any of the crew. I'm still trying to cope with Washes death.
Yes, that was difficult to cope with, Wash was one of my favorite characters, I was aghast when he was killed in Serenity; he was so vulnerable, it was easy to identify with him and how he dealt with everything. I think he was one of the most interesting characters, and he just had to be killed...
Some people think Wash was just the comic relief. I think he was much more. He has a centeredness about him, even a moral one, that I found quite appealing (far more so than in Book, whose moral compass always seemed to point in the right direction on the outside, but where you're still left doubting about the inner workings).
Wash was a good man; generous, honest, and genuine; the real article. When Captain was tortured, he didn't hesitate for one moment to go back and rescue him.
Now, look at me, waxing lovingly about Wash as if he were River, lol. :) But seriously, Washes death was quite unacceptable in a way. That is, I have a hard time picturing the crew without him.
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I think others have said this too, but I am of the opinion that Joss doesnt need to kill anyone else off in the second movie. Imo, he cant afford to, because his stuff isnt about people dying, it's about people living, and if he gets a chance to do a sequel, for sure he would give wash's and book's deaths the backlash they deserve.
In Buffy n Angel, he had to occassionally kill folk to remind everyone that the world they lived in was actually really dangerous... and, if you think of movie-firefly as a new series (because a lot of folk would go see serenity2 on the strength of serenity1, i think) then those folks know that people can die, the movie doesnt have to be, nor should it be, about just randomly killing folks.
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Yes, quite true, Wash was a simple character; but there was also that underlying complexity. It just made you wonder "How would Wash respond to this?" It's not always apparent how he would assess a situation because of that complexity. And he'd have none of that ambiguity of most of the other crew members, whose morals and ethics are not always clearly defined. He contributed a sense of stability to the mostly unstable crew. I think that worked well in regard to the story, but also to the character himself.
I didn't like the way he died.
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