WARNING: This is a HUGE spoiler if you haven’t seen Firefly or Serenity, so if you plan on watching them don’t read this.
Going all the way back to tragedy I would like to talk about one of the most hauntingly beautiful tragedies I’ve seen. In the first episode Wash’s (the pilot of Serenity(the spaceship)) first lines came from when he was playing with toy dinosaurs, it went like this:
Dino 1: Yes...Yes… This is fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land and we will call it… This Land
Dino 2: I think we should call it your grave!
Dino 1: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Dino 2: Ha ha ha, mine is an evil laugh, now die!
And in Wash’s last scene in Serenity (the movie that came a few years after the show ended), he was trying to land the ship safely will engine trouble and while they were still being chased. It seemed as if they wouldn’t make it, but they did and just when you think they’re safe a giant metal object/spear thing goes through the front of the ship and impales Wash.
So I find it almost poetic that one of his first lines was “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!” and that was exactly how he died, in a sudden and unexpected way, being betrayed by the writer and creator Joss Whedon (who is now almost known for killing off many of his beloved characters).
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