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Date Posted: Monday, July 09, 12:00:58pm
Author: Chani
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Subject: But many deaths make sense
In reply to: AS 's message, "Death became Joss' crutch after a while." on Monday, July 09, 10:53:34am

in violent 'verses where the characters lead such dangerous lives.

Those guys kept flirting with death. Having characters in Buffy, Angel or Firefly, even major ones, not dying would have been nonsense.

As Zoe said herself in Serenity, a hero is "someone who gets others killed"...that's what both Buffy and Angel did.

And Joss actually killed off less characters than other show runners did in other great shows like The Wire or Deadwood or OZ...

Now if he had written shows about nice families in a safe suburb, whose jobs have nothing to do with fighting demons or police or drug business or old west violence, and he kept killing off characters with various diseases, murders or accidents, that would be different.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Death became Joss' crutch after a while. -- dee, Monday, July 09, 01:09:17pm (248.38.ultimate-int.uia.net/66.146.38.248)

I actually found Fred's character to be annoying and whiny until she turned into Illyria.
I felt more for Wesley because he really loved her but
I wasn't sad to see Fred go.

Although, technically, I think Illyria was a male entity?
I forget, now.
Need to watch those episodes again.


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