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"Allan C Cybulskie" <allan.c.cybulskie@yahoo.ca> looked up from reading
the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the
signs say:

>
>"Xocyll" <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote in message
>news:dst962984di4ele7qhus6gdc5d7tt8hh4q@4ax.com...
>> 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]?

Dunno, never saw it - no TV remember.

>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].

I saw some of it at friends places, but I haven't seen the ending of
Angel or Buffy - heck i'd only seen up to part way through the 6th
season and i didn't think i'd seen any (thought Once More With Feeling
was a 5th season thing.)

>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.

Hmm, dunno if i'd get into that at all.

Xocyll
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