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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fedifensor" data-source="post: 2632052" data-attributes="member: 7289">I disagree.  Doyle's death was a heroic death, where he chose to die to save everyone else.Wash died for shock value, nothing more.  I've watched most of Buffy, all of Angel, and Firefly several times over, and I like Joss as a writer.  But I really hate this tendency of him to kill a character simply for shock value.  Especially when that character showcased something extremely rare in both movies and television - a person in a committed relationship that doesn't cheat on his partner, even when tempted.  He also brought a necessary lightheartedness to the crew - something that was utilized extremely well in the series.Book's death was also annoying to me, but for a different reason.  In addition to the already-mentioned fact that Book lived long enough to give a long death scene (heck, about as long as the entirity of his non-dying screen time) but not long enough to be revived by a competent medic, he died with his story untold.  That bugs me - there was significant build-up in the series that Book was the man with a mystery past, only to have it fall flat with his death in the movie.I'll still give the movie an 8 out of 10, but I'm docking Joss 1.5 points for killing Wash, and another half point for Book.</blockquote>