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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 2632118" data-attributes="member: 9298">Wash's death serves so many purposes.It is done to give a sense of urgency to the film. To make you worry that ANY or ALL of them will die in the finale. It makes you sit at the edge of your seat.It is done to show realism. If you do crazy suicide missions like this, sometimes you die. It makes you believe that this is a real. Not another happily ever after fairy tale.It is done to make you feel emotion. Very few movies actually affect the audience, and many Firefly fans cried for Wash. And most importantly it is done because Wash's character arc was over.On the series, he was the normal guy. He wasn't in the war, but he married into this strange "family" and found a home. But he always felt inferior, he was the comic-relief, and the pilot nothing more.  He wasn't a soldier, he wasn't a hero, and he was definitely treated as a second-class crew member. In War Stories this all comes out and is mostly resolved. His problems with Mal and Zoe's relationship are settled.  He is at peace with his role. In the movie, he finally gets his chance to be the hero. To be their equal. To prove to them that he belongs. He is a leaf on the wind.Joss knew he needed to do all these things. Make people feel, make people believe, make people sit at the edge of their seats.Joss knew he was ending Wash's character arc.And he tied everything together so suddenly, so brutally, so beautifully, that many people are so emotional about it that they're angry about it.This could very well be the best and most complete death scene ever.  It works on so many levels.</blockquote>

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