So... a higher body count if Firefly went the distance on TV-?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
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Inara had a fatal illness as we now know.
Book was always gonna die (Sage/Mentors always do).
Was Wash destined to go? Or was that a movie-only decision?
My bet is that Simon would have also kicked at some point to make River grow up a little more completely.
Thoughts?
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Joss and Alan have both said Wash likely would have died in season 2 anyway.
It's Joss - of course there would have been a high body count.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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The short stories have thematic hints that Mal or River are on the chopping block, where Simon dying had no hints whatsoever. But I agree with your reasoning on why Simon might be killed off.
Wash was probably always going to die. See River's foreshadowing of it in Safe. Dinosaurs, and Alliance-types resorting to cannibalism (Reavers).
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If I were a writer/creator Kaylee would be my choice. The set-up would be going the other way of course with maybe storylines leading towards someone else. But ultimately Kaylee's death would really tug the heartstrings.
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I think Joss was making Kaylee the Willow of the show. She'd be safe from death, but lots of bad stuff would happen to her to pull at the heart-strings.
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Joss would've definiteley introduced new charatcers to take their places.The only downside to it is that one of those new characters would've been a narcissistic teenager *cough*Dawn and Connor*cough* whom tends to screw with chemistry of the show.
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Hey Storymark.
Kaylee is the Willow type character and I thought about that, but Joss used Fred in a similar way in Angel and had her killed off. Plus while it was only a one off, he also killed off Felicia Day's character in Dr Horrible... So he's quite able to kill off a beloved character. Whether Kaylee is quite on the same standing as Willow in terms of a loved character or not I couldn't say.... Personally by season five of Buffy I'd have been quite unmoved had Willow been killed. In fact I may even have cheered.
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Quote:As is, the body count was high enough- more and I might have been too turned off to continue wanting to care.
Originally posted by Storymark:
It's Joss - of course there would have been a high body count.
Just sayin'.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Hey Storymark.
Kaylee is the Willow type character and I thought about that, but Joss used Fred in a similar way in Angel and had her killed off. Plus while it was only a one off, he also killed off Felicia Day's character in Dr Horrible... So he's quite able to kill off a beloved character. Whether Kaylee is quite on the same standing as Willow in terms of a loved character or not I couldn't say.... Personally by season five of Buffy I'd have been quite unmoved had Willow been killed. In fact I may even have cheered.
Good points, but I don't see him killing her. Even with Fred, he held off until nearly the end of the series, and used her death as a catalyst for the final arc - not just as a stunt.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:As is, the body count was high enough- more and I might have been too turned off to continue wanting to care.
Originally posted by Storymark:
It's Joss - of course there would have been a high body count.
Just sayin'.
The laughing Chrisisall
Lightweight. ;)
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