"...Without that, the last half-hour is a bunch of noise to me."
The idea that killing one main character ramps up the jeopardy of the others is a valid one. I could have sworn Whedon was going to kill every last one of them for a while there just because he could.
Still, people have been watching TV series and movies with continuing characters for years knowing full well that the main ones will be coming out the other end okay, and somehow the tension is still there. Maybe it's another form of suspending belief?
Someone who had not seen the series is going to react a lot differently than someone who has been watching the DVDs over and over like my kids have.
Imagine the first Star Trek movie killing off Scotty. If you had never seen Star Trek, and Scotty had just been mostly an offstage presence in the movie, it would have been almost like the death of a peripheral character, red shirt and all. No big deal.
But those who had watched all those episodes, and knew what Scotty was like, it would be quite a hit.
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An interesting point.
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