Your reaction? [Serenity Spoiler]
POSTED BY: iheartwash
UPDATED: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:55
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What was your reaction to Wash's death? (I should have known Joss Whedon would kill him, but it was completely unexpected and sudden, which I'm sure was the intent.) I was almost in tears, howling "Nooooooooo! You can't kill WASH!!!! What about Zoe? And who's gonna fly the ship? Noooooooooooo...you can't!"
Anyway, just curious to see if anyone else reacted as crazily as I did. :)
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Originally posted by iheartwash:
I was almost in tears, howling "Nooooooooo!
Dude, I had tears streaming down my face!!!!!
And again at the end of the movie!!!!!!!
I cried harder than when I saw Spock die in '82!
And what's worse, I just took the FF character test, AND I'M WASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Choked up Chrisisall
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I saw Serenity at a rough cut in February. Well before there was even hint that the ending might be contentious.
Book - not too surprised actually. He always had a feel of "dead meat" to him. But then the ship crash landed and... bam.
I felt like someone had struck me in the chest with a hammer. And then Zoe got sliced... and Jayne got hit... and then Kaylee... and BAM Simon was down... saying his goodbyes... and I was fixed in my seat thinking "Oh my god, he's going to kill everybody." I literally believed Joss was going to kill them all off.
Didn't see it coming. I would have put him about 8th or 9th in likelihood of dying in the movie. Just goes to show; with Joss, you never know.
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Honestly, when I first saw Serenity, I hadn't yet seen the series, so I wasn't as emotionally involved.
Tears in my eyes, yes, but not overwhelmed.
Then, in the course of three days, I watched the entire Firefly DVD set and headed back to the theater.
BAWLED. Tears streaming down my face. How dare Joss kill him? Why WASH? Wash, the most innocent of the entire crew? The least likely to have been any sort of threat... well, except Kaylee.
HOW dare he?
Oh, yeah. That's exactly why he dared. Jayne, Zoe, Mal, always in the line of fire.
Wash. Not so much. He was universally likeable, as was Book. They were lambs to the slaughter for the generation of righteous anger.
I have to say now that I'm just as offended by Joss killing Wash as I am over PJ killing Haldir. And that's saying alot.
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It put me on the edge of my seat. I honestly don't remember what anyone else in the theatre was doing or saying. I think I was in shock a bit.
On subsequent viewings, I got to hear the deafening chorus of gasps around me. A lot of new Browncoats bein' made then-and-there. 
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iheartwash wrote, in part:
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...I was almost in tears, howling "Nooooooooo!..."
Dude(ette?)... I totally had a Star Wars Revenge of the Shith, Frankenvaderesque moment reading your post. Did buckets of popcorn and garbage pails of soda suddenly implode all around the theatre as you cried out in agony at Wash's death?
More importantly, did your evil master try to make you believe it was all your fault, that you had done it?
Force-fully,
zoid
P.S.
Look at the bright side: At least they didn't whisk your kids away to the other side of the universe, without even letting you know you had kids. Sheesh. Sympathetically, Darth.
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'
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My friends and I discussed this for DAYS on end, who would die.
We dismissed Wash right off the bat. (All of us were Joss virgins) Because you can't kill the funny pilot.
Then I got into a preview screening. Book was sad, but we all saw it coming. I thought that was it.
BAM.
Oh lordy, I BAWLED. I didn't just cry, I made the little crying gasps when people BAWL. I completely zoned out the audience then.
I was in shock for about three days.
And on top of all that I had to keep quiet to my friends.
P.S To all those in the preview screenings: wasn't the whole theatre gasp the greatest sound ever?
PIE!
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Originally posted by zoid:
Did buckets of popcorn and garbage pails of soda suddenly implode all around the theatre as you cried out in agony at Wash's death?
More importantly, did your evil master try to make you believe it was all your fault, that you had done it?
Funny, but RAWR. Someone feeling a bit mean today?
I didn't scream at the top of my lungs - quietly enough for the people I was with to hear me.
And the movie theater I was in had...maybe ten people in it. (I live on an Air Force Base in Germany - it was mostly young airmen with nothing to do or wanting to see fights.)
~Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!~
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Zoid, Shith aside, didja cry? Or did you do what I did in Matrix: Revolutions and just go cold, kinda putting emotion in the background while assessing if I wanted to let it get to me (which I decided I definitly didn't; I felt it was too manipulative in a cliched way)...?
Chrisisall, call it my 'need to know'...
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I actually laughed. I guess that's kind of a nervous self protective reaction to shocking things. In actuality, Wash's death was done kinda funny. The only thing that might have made me laugh harder would've been if Kaylee got decapitated.
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