Wash is not really dead!?!
POSTED BY: Autumleaf
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 04:14
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Wash is not really dead.....so we don't need no resurrection.
So who is on with my thinking?
When the crew was forced to leave serenity and fight the last battle, they were most likly gone for an extended period after. The Alliance troops and operatives would not let them just waltz back to their ship with out a debriefing of some sort. As those things go....probably it went on for hours and hours. When they did go back to the ship, and did not find Wash still pinned to the chair, they would assume that he had been taken either by the Alliance troops or by the Reavers (for un-named purposes) ick. Either way they assumed he was dead, so they went on with a "memorial" service. Watch your DVD's closely - the service is for ALL the people that died. the video memorial cylinders, on the un-named planet DO NOT appear to be graves. they are not big enough.
Taken by someone yes, but not the reavers as the crew thinks. No, it was the Alliance...but by accident. Put on your combat hats now and Read on.
When there is a battle, there are always the combat troops, and the back up folks. The Alliance troops that poured off the Operatives ship would have been backed up by medics and other personel to triage and clean up the casualties. In the aftermath, the medics would have been going around the area and collecting injured or the dead. Because Wash was not a reaver, they would have taken Wash dead or alive back to the medical facilities or their morgue. reavers bodies are burned by the local planet sanitation dept. anyway, when the crew got back to the ship, the last place they are going to go is to the Alliance to see if Wash was there. Even if they did, they would have received the buracratic run-around because Wash would have been a john doe to the authorities. So, they assume it was reavers that took 'um, and they go about their service. imagine how pissed Zoe is about that.
so how to I figure our Wash is not dead?
Look at the Serenity video again. This is the CSI part. Look at the angle of entry of the spike. While it could be perceived to be going directly in to the heart, it looks in fact to be lower, and thus going into his stomach. While this would sever the main artery to his torso, causing him normaly to bleed to death, the impact was so fast and clean that the spike caused the cauterization of the artery. thus rendered him in Shock, but not dead. Notice in the scene there is no blood? the spike seems to go through him out his back, where again there is no blood, so we have the severd spine to deal with. but I have worked this out too.
So our poor Wash, comes too and the place is crawling with Reavers and Alliance troops, he's trapped, can't move his legs, no one is there to protect him and yes he is dying slowly. What next? Chapter II
AutumLeaf
AutumLeaf,
I still soar.....
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I like how you think. 
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The detail in your theory is, well, creepy! I think you've been watching too much CSI
But hey it could work, Mal was brought back to life by Niska (although Mal wasn't run through with a spike), and the medics on an alliance ship are very good, so Wash may be keeping the wounded allaince soldiers entertained with shadow puppets.
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didn't they bury Wash and Shepard Book at then end of the movie? I suppose they could just have been erecting "memorial sites", but Zoe would have not left there without his body.....but I'm open to suggestions!
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I think my sig points to my opinion
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Yup. Really dead.
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Wash Lives
I think of Wash's death like a bad marriage.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
The ceremony was nice.
But now the spouse is revealed to be a vile, abusive, dim-witted lout.
But you wouldn't want to get a divorce because
it would "cheapen" the marriage?!
Book's death had value and made sense.
But you can't "cheapen" a "Cheap Shot".
While some may think Wash's death was a good idea at the time,
I haven't heard ANYONE say,
"Boy I sure am glad Wash is dead!"
Since I feel the death was cheap and frivilous in the first place,
(and we are talking about "entertainment" and "fiction" here)
I want Wash back as a character more than I want to service a
manipulative, low blow.
I admit it, I still mist up at the Bedlam Bards "Leaf On The Wind" song.
Wash Lives,
Mike
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Really dead. *sniffle*
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Quote:
Originally posted by Causal:
Really dead. *sniffle*
Yep... Like a doornail...
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I remember a similar theory being posted last year, and it still doesn't quite work for me for one simple reason, and that's that the Reavers were there before the Alliance was, and they're not exactly gentle and fuzzy. Maybe he would have been uninteresting prey for them in his state, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't have done anything to him at all.
We'll see what happens in the sequel (yes, gorrammit there will be a sequel) but until then, I consider him to be dead and put to rest on Haven.
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