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Re: The movie: Serenity

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From: Ceowulf
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 04:01
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"Zaghadka" <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 10 May 2006 19:34:08 +0800, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Ceowulf
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>>Got a question about this great movie, couldn't find a satisfactory answer
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>>Spoiler Space if you haven't watched it!
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>>Why the hell did Wash die?! Did he want to leave any potential future 
>>series
>>(any news on that? Is there going to be a season two?), did Wheadon not 
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>>him? Ah man, what a bitch of a thing to do!
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> LOL.
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> If you have the DVD, listen to the director's commentary. None of those
> characters are ever coming back. "Serenity" is a swan song for an 
> excellent
> series that the media establishement failed to understand or appreciate. 
> So in
> effect, they were all dead from the very first frame.

That's depressing. The series was fantastic, I was hoping that he made the 
movie to hopefully rekindle peoples appeties for it.

> Why Wash? Everyone else was worth something in a fight, 'cept Kaylee, and 
> she
> was the doctor's love interest. I actually found it rather contrived that 
> Wash
> was the one to die. He gets done landing the ship and then he dies because 
> he's
> useless to the story. I think that's where most of the offense comes from, 
> that
> it felt like the character was used.

Harsh. Such is movie life however :)

Ceo- 
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