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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5371751" data-attributes="member: 177">If you want to know, you have to look at the structure of the movie, and where it sits with respect to the series as a whole.&nbsp; It is quite obvious if you were one of the obsessive Browncoat fan/freaks who saw one of the pre-release showings*.[sblock]Book dies first.&nbsp; You figure that's done to make Mal mad (both in-story and out: the Operative and Joss both want Mal to be pissed off there).Then Wash dies.&nbsp; Wash was perhaps the most beloved character in the series.&nbsp; Joss is now showing you he's damned serious - his world is cruel, and bad things happen to good people.&nbsp; Good people can and will die.Then comes the big fight scene at the end.&nbsp; If you're watching this in the theater, a fan of the show, not having seen folks discuss it later, now you really don't know what's going to happen.&nbsp; It is now quite credible that he could go for the TPK!So, that's why Wash dies - to add tension to that fight, because Wash's death means you cant' tell who, if anyone, will survive to the end.[/sblock]*Me? No I don't know anyone like that.&nbsp; Not at all.&nbsp; At least, not anyone who dressed up in costume to go to the premier.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5371751, member: 177"] If you want to know, you have to look at the structure of the movie, and where it sits with respect to the series as a whole. It is quite obvious if you were one of the obsessive Browncoat fan/freaks who saw one of the pre-release showings*. [sblock] Book dies first. You figure that's done to make Mal mad (both in-story and out: the Operative and Joss both want Mal to be pissed off there). Then Wash dies. Wash was perhaps the most beloved character in the series. Joss is now showing you he's damned serious - his world is cruel, and bad things happen to good people. Good people can and will die. Then comes the big fight scene at the end. If you're watching this in the theater, a fan of the show, not having seen folks discuss it later, now you really don't know what's going to happen. It is now quite credible that he could go for the TPK! So, that's why Wash dies - to add tension to that fight, because Wash's death means you cant' tell who, if anyone, will survive to the end.[/sblock] [SIZE="1"]*Me? No I don't know anyone like that. Not at all. At least, not anyone who dressed up in costume to go to the premier.... :)[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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