Who would have been the first character to die?

POSTED BY: Jahzara
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 3, 2004 01:16
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KURUKAMI

Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:55 PM

I'd actually put in a vote for Inara. Not that I'd want her to die... just that she seems the most likely candidate.

History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it merely shouts "Weren't you listening the first time?!?" and lets fly with a club.

SHINY

Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:59 PM

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Originally posted by Kurukami:
I'd actually put in a vote for Inara. Not that I'd want her to die... just that she seems the most likely candidate.

Yeah...we all know she's dying anyway...

RIVER
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MAL
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JAHZARA

Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:09 PM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
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Originally posted by Kurukami:
I'd actually put in a vote for Inara. Not that I'd want her to die... just that she seems the most likely candidate.

Yeah...we all know she's dying anyway...

Oh! I forgot.

Yeah, her first.

BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:11 PM

I would put even money on Inara or Book.

Inara is a candidate because her death would greatly affect Mal, the whole unrequitted love thing. Then there is Inara's friendship w/ Kaylee; there would be drama there as Kaylee tries to cope w/ the loss of Inara.

Book and his death could have all kinds of odd twists, if only we knew his background. Maybe his supposed ties to the Alliance could haunt Serenity and crew if they were blamed for his death.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:04 PM

Simon.

Imagine the struggle to deal with River that would then ensue?

LOTS of story value there.

-frem
diefuxdie

NIGHTMARCHER

Friday, January 30, 2004 10:46 AM

not likely to happen, but i personally think that Jayne would've been the first to go. at the very least caused himself a very nasty flesh wound by the barrel of Vera. sure he's good with a gun, but he's not the brightest star in the galaxy. he could be cleaning Vera one day at the kitchen table and someone would walk in and scare the begesus out of him while he's got his finger on the trigger... BOOM! not that he had a whole lotta brains to begin with anyway.

KALATHENA

Friday, January 30, 2004 3:41 PM

Joss has never killed a contract character until the series finale and never will. That's just part of his formula. A "contract" character is one who is contracted for every episode of the season and appears in the opening credits. The crew of Serenity is exempt from death until such time as there would have been a series finale.

I do, however, love that one person observed that Joss likes it best when his fans are pissed off at him. That's just so true. He also hates it when his characters are content with their lives. On Buffy as soon as Jonathan started going on about he didn't care if people from high school knew what he was doing; he was happy wondering about them and with his life the way it was, I turned to my husband and said, "Uh oh. Boy's gonna die..."

Five minutes later my prediction came true. I wonder if he even realizes how formulaic he's starting to get.

--Kala

TMURRIE

Saturday, January 31, 2004 7:22 PM

Ya, like in Buffy when Tara was FINALLY in the opening credits, she died that same episode.

STEVE580

Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:06 PM

Actually, he does kill people from the credits, and not just at season finalles. Doyle is one. Haven't seen season 4 of Angel yet, but I'm pretty sure Cordillea (I know, I know, I can't spell) left the group (via a comma) while in the credits.

But then, people are probably more likely to die on Buffy and Angel than on Firefly. In these two shows, there is always the possibility of magically bringing them back; on Firefly, they're just gone, forever. I'm pretty sure that no charactor has ever left the show on a Whedon program without making one or two more appearances (ie Oz, Riley, Joyce, Jenny, Lindsey, Conner, Conner's abducter, Cordelia, ect)

Anyways, I doubt Whedon will kill any of these people. If he does, it'll be doing something heroic (Doyle-style), not just something random (Joyce & Tara).

That's what I think. I hate that there's the chance a charactor would die; but it's really a good thing: when watching Ariel, I was unsure if Jayne would live or not. On any other show, the exact same scene may have been somewhat dull.
-Steve

KALATHENA

Sunday, February 1, 2004 2:07 AM

Yes, but if you listen to Joss' commentary from the "Welcome to the Hellmouth" you know that Doyle was meant to die from day one. Joss never intended him to be in many episodes. He explains that had hoped to put the guy who played Jesse in the opening credits, but couldn't afford at that time to make two versions of the opening credits. He says, "So then I did it on ANGEL and it just pissed a lot of people off.

Cordelia's not dead, either.

--Kala

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