Since all of my questions aren’t going to be about comic books or comic book characters/movies/TV shows, I decided to make a separate category for more general questions. The question this week is the first of three that I stole from a post on Joseph Mallozzi’s blog. If you don’t know who that is, he created the comic book and TV series Dark Matter, and he wrote and produced on the Stargate TV shows. You should visit his blog if you’re into any of those things.

Rescue one t.v. character from their on-screen death. Who are you saving?

In his original post, Mr. Mallozzi picked Glenn from The Walking Dead. I liked Glenn, but I stopped watching long before they killed him off. Had I not gotten bored with The Walking Dead halfway through the third season and given up on it, I might agree with him.

My first thought was Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) from Lost. Then, when I thought about it, I wasn’t upset that they killed him off. I was upset about how they killed him off. The way they cut the scene together made it look like he had the time to prevent his death, but he just went with it anyway. If they’d have killed him off in a different way, it wouldn’t bother me as much.

So, to answer the question, I’m going to cheat a little. The character I’m picking is a TV character, but his on-screen death comes in a movie: Wash.

Hoban Washburne (Alan Tudyk), better known as simply Wash, is the pilot of the transport Serenity first seen in the television series Firefly. He didn’t meet his demise in the one season of Firefly, however. His death comes at the end of the follow-up movie, Serenity. Anyone who has seen both will probably agree that Wash’s death sucked hard and should be reversed.

What about you? Which TV character would you save