MD Thoughts

[sariagray]

Okay. Here's a thought. It's probably not a new thought at all, but...it exists.

No one can die. Unless they're burned. I'm going to go with burning actually working for now, until proven otherwise. If I missed a line of dialogue somewhere that contradicts this, let me know.

So. Let's say Jack was incinerated. Instantly. Completely. How does he come back from that? I mean, of course, prior to the Miracle. And I know he's been exploded and came back from that, but burnt to nothing but ash? That isn't regenerating cells, as there is no point to start from. Just...ash.

Also, if Owen had really wanted to die...couldn't they have incinerated him? It'd work the same way, I imagine.

I'm going to go...stop being morbid now.

Comments

[eldarwannabe.livejournal.com]

Devil's advocate is the best part of online conversation! :)

I've always held the anything not in the original show -- books, games, comics, radio shows, etc. -- are "optional canon" at best. You can take it or leave it, and no one can force you to accept it as canon. Word of God is just another form of optional canon, with even less clout, honestly. It's also far less satisfying. Like in your other fandom. Redeemed off-screen at a con? Not hardly enough. (Was it Buffy? Which character? 'cause I can think of two off the top of my head that didn't satisfy me, but I haven't watched in a long while...)

Of course, the problem always comes in when fandom at large embraces some factoid and you personally don't want it, or don't feel you should have to accept it. Or you just want to write a story that ignores it, even if you like the optional interpretation in general.

(See it here in Torchwood. Someone writes a story that mentions how many people survived Canary Wharf and everyone recites the number from the website, 27 I think. But what if you want to write a story with 100 survivors? Or four? You shouldn't have to warn for AU, it's not mentioned in canon. Oh, fandom.)

[miss-bekahrose.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, it was Buffy. Icon was a dead give-away.

The character was Spike. His whole character arc at the end of season 6 really made me rethink what it was I liked about the character and how, in the space of a few short episodes, he'd been completely destroyed in my eyes, and it wasn't until season 5 of Angel that he'd slowly started to return to the character I liked in his early Buffy days.

... And don't even get me started about the "Comic book canon"... Killing off my favourite male character? Yeah, one aspect of "canon" I'm happily overlooking.

[eldarwannabe.livejournal.com]

Spike was one of my picks!

Yeah, that part of season six was a little...yeah. I mean, in Buffy he was "redeemed by death," but...yeah. *sigh*

Haven't read much beyond the first few issues of the Buffy comic. The cover art was always gorgeous, but the comic itself wasn't as impressive. Sticking this all into my box of "optional canon, take it or leave it however you want whenever you want," has always worked for me. Sure, Joss said it's the official continuation, but you don't have to take it that way if you don't want to! So there, Whedon.