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"Xocyll" <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote in message
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> mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
> spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
> >In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic gray.wizard@moria.mines wrote:
> >> On Thu, 11 May 2006 07:36:45 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>It also made you pretty sure that River was going to die too when she
> >>>ran out, tossed the med pack in and sealed the door.
> >>
> >> Yeah, damn bastard...I fell for it hook, line, and sinker, too.
> >
> >I didn't. River is never going to die. At least not permanently. It'd
> >be like killing Buffy.
>
> Um, hasn't Buffy died at least twice in her series?
>
> The parallel between River and Buffy doesn't fit though - Buffy is the
> core of her show, River is a supporting cast member.
>
> Buffy had to be brought back for the show to continue, River did not
> have to survive the movie since there isn't likely to be any more
> Firefly in any form,  and he'd already killed two of the cast off.
>
> It could easily have ended up with Mal sending out the wave, then making
> it back to the others just in time for the Reavers to break in and kill
> them all.
>
> Be a downer for sure, but when the writer/director *KNOWS* there isn't
> going to be any more there's no _need_ to keep the cast alive.

You mean like the end of Angel [grin]?

Buffy had a good ending, or at least one that fit the series.  Angel's was
kind of a let down.  Then again, I never forgave him for what he did to
Fred, so that could be it [grin].

For other Whedon fans, he was writing the Astonishing X-Men comic for a
while (he might still be doing it, but they messed around with their books
for a while and so he might be gone).  Basically, it was a continuation of
Angel with X-Men characters.