The only problem with that is why bother creating the character just to kill him this quickly in the season? No, I'm pretty sure he will survive.
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Maybe to motivate Nyx. She and Devon were the newcomers to the crew, the fellow long-term veterans of the prison, and they bonded over the course of this episode. Then he gets killed by the same people who are after her. Okay, the fact that her brother died to stop them is probably enough of a motivation, but that was a choice her brother made to fight them. Having them claim an innocent victim could intensify her drive to fight them.
Or maybe they just decided the character wasn't working out. It's not like they've found much to do with him in the past seven episodes. Maybe they decided they just had one too many characters and Devon was being lost in the clutter.
That seems unlikely to me. Most of the scrips exist, in draft form if not more or less finished, before the first episode of the season gets filmed. Mallozzi created the character, it would be weird if already during the writing of later episodes he would realise "this isn't working" without going back to revise the earlier scripts/ideas to alter or remove the character. It's not like they had the chance to see audience reaction, everything was in the can before the first episode was shown.
It's true that we were shocked by the death of One (and there could still be ways for him to come back, the next episode may provide an opening for that if that is Mallozzi's intention), but killing off a main character early on is also an effective tool to keep the audience on its toes afterwards. We'll see what happens to Devon; if he is dead, then DM is really playing for keeps now.
And scripts are rewritten during production all the time. Sometimes you don't know what will or won't work until you have actual episodes in the can. The scripts are just the blueprints. Once you get into production, you can see if maybe an actor isn't working out as planned, or if there's chemistry between two actors you didn't think of pairing off. Once the episodes are shot and edited, you can find that more stuff has to be left on the cutting-room floor than you were assuming. None of that requires audience reaction to see, but it wouldn't be possible to determine it from the scripts alone. There are a whole lot of variables that come into play between those two stages.
Not to mention that actors have lives that sometimes get in the way. So a planned story arc for a character may have to be abandoned because of some real-life event requiring an actor to leave the show. Sometimes it can be due to a health issue, like Michael O'Hare leaving Babylon 5. Sometimes it can be that the actor and the crew didn't get along (you often hear about "creative differences" being a reason for someone leaving a production). Or it can be for a lot of other possible reasons.
Then again, maybe it was always the plan to kill off Devon. Maybe that's why he's been such an underdeveloped character -- because they never intended to keep him around anyway. Maybe it was just a fakeout -- make us think the character was a new regular so we'd be surprised when he was killed.
Thought I'd read somewhere that there were two new regular characters (maybe even a link in this thread) that Devon and Nix were were along as two new regular characters for this season.
Then again I could be wrong or plans could have changed (such as the 'creative differences" you mention above).
As for Marc BenDavid, the fun facts from the episode where he's portraying Corso mentions the actor comparing himself to Kenny from South Partk
"' a reference to South Park's perennially dying character. And who knows? We might even see him again in a future episode ..."
http://www.syfy.com/darkmatter/photos/fun-facts-season-2-episode-5
So who knows what the producers have in mind.
Did we? I thought we just saw it happen from one's vantage point.
Christopher;
Or maybe he (Devon) isn't dead yet, just like Six and Two didn't die when the first was shot and the second was spaced.
Scripts are rewritten, but writing out a character in the 7th episode of 13 is going to be tricky (all the episodes after that are going to be affected, and as Mallozzi regularly illustrated on his blog, the prep of the sets and scenes of the next episode is already underway as an episode is shot), unless it was simply part of the plan all along.
Or maybe he (Devon) isn't dead yet, just like Six and Two didn't die when the first was shot and the second was spaced.
Scripts are rewritten, but writing out a character in the 7th episode of 13 is going to be tricky (all the episodes after that are going to be affected, and as Mallozzi regularly illustrated on his blog, the prep of the sets and scenes of the next episode is already underway as an episode is shot), unless it was simply part of the plan all along.
Nope, we saw the body hit the floor with the hole in his head.
Like I said, it could've been a fakeout. Sometimes filmmakers deliberately employ misinformation like that to preserve a surprise. Look at how Janet Leigh was played up as the star of Psycho. The pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer did something similar with a friend of Xander, making us think he'd be a regular too.
Of course. I'm just trying to consider all the possibilities. Other people have done a perfectly good job suggesting ways he could still be alive, so I'm just providing balance by suggesting ways he could not be. It's just about looking at both sides of the question. We won't know which side is right until Friday.
So it's tricky. Comes with the business. If you can't handle tricky, daunting changes of plan in the middle of the process, you'll never get to the level of being a showrunner in the first place. It's not a job for the faint of heart.
Yeah, but that's assuming they wanted to. If they'd wanted to keep the actor around, they wouldn't have killed him off in the first place. The first season made a big deal of the conflict between One and Three building to a head. Now, with One's death, that whole arc has been cut off without resolution. And if they'd wanted to keep him around as Corso, then it would've made perfect sense for Two to spare him as a source of information. So it's pretty clear to me that they didn't want to keep him around. I mean, why would they? He was a bland actor with no charisma. He was by far the weakest link in the cast. And they made a smart choice by getting rid of him.
Also, we saw last season that a clone of Darren Cross would look like Darren Cross, not like Jace Corso. It's hard enough to believe that One would've been sufficiently forewarned of a threat to arrange for some special type of clone; it's even harder to assume he had so much lead time to prepare that he could've actually waited for the clone to heal from cosmetic surgery as well.
I liked One and hope he is resurrected somehow. He was the only one besides the android who didn't have a criminal background, so he didn't automatically turn to violent measures. Avenging his wife's murder was his reason to join a very dangerous crew, so he was pretty brave and intelligent to find a way to do it. Since he discovered that the man he thought had murdered her actually wasn't the murderer, it seemed like there was still a reason for them to keep writing about him. The crew seems a little lost without his presence. He sort of unified them.
Except for Three.
In many ways One had taken on the role of Two's unofficial sounding board and exec. So far it looks like Three is stepping into that role now, with Six close behind. It does seem as if Three's animosity towards One has been transferred to Three. Same overall dynamic, different players.
Three does seem to be mellowing a bit, maybe because he doesn't need to be such a contrast to One anymore.
You mean transferred to Six, right? (It's so hard to keep these numbers straight, isn't it?)