Everything about how Joss handles character death is brilliant. He gives the characters their moment to shine. He doesn't dwell on the death - it's clean and abrupt and brutal, and completely true to the world. And he uses the death not just to hit the audiences heartstrings but as an integral part of the arc of the story. Wash's death had to be there to establish jeopardy; if Wash hadn't died, when we went into the final showdown, it would've been another ho-hum action scene. But by putting the death first, the ensuing battle was horrifyingly realistic.
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Date: 2005-10-01 05:08 am (UTC)The man's a gorram genius.