So this was sort of bothering at me, and then when I got to the bit where Simon gets shot Joss points out the payoff: you're more worried now, because Joss has established that everyone isn't getting out alive. I get the logic of that, but I've never experienced those emotions myself – I don't think Wash's death made me more worried about the rest of the cast
Yeah ... I think it actually had the effect for me of making me care less. I remember my emotions at that point in the movie were mostly pulling back and trying not to get involved with whatever happened next, because I figured that either a) the whole thing was some kind of fakeout (there's going to be a reset button of some sort), in which case there was no point in getting too worked up about it, or b) he was going to pull a Blake's 7 ending, and I could only think, "I looked forward to this movie for years so that you could kill everyone off? Seriously?"
And then once it became clear that everyone else was going to survive, I was less delighted at their survival than angry at the transparent manipulativeness of Wash's death scene and the fact that Wash and Zoe didn't get a happy ending and it wasn't faaaaaair. ;_;
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Date: 2013-07-11 08:51 pm (UTC)Yeah ... I think it actually had the effect for me of making me care less. I remember my emotions at that point in the movie were mostly pulling back and trying not to get involved with whatever happened next, because I figured that either a) the whole thing was some kind of fakeout (there's going to be a reset button of some sort), in which case there was no point in getting too worked up about it, or b) he was going to pull a Blake's 7 ending, and I could only think, "I looked forward to this movie for years so that you could kill everyone off? Seriously?"
And then once it became clear that everyone else was going to survive, I was less delighted at their survival than angry at the transparent manipulativeness of Wash's death scene and the fact that Wash and Zoe didn't get a happy ending and it wasn't faaaaaair. ;_;
/is maybe a little biased.