Talk:Summer Rose/@comment-82.31.69.200-20150830224903/@comment-25555436-20150830230633

You want to know something, sweet summer child? She's dead. And want to know something better? That would make the surprise better than just thinking she's missing but not dead because the word "dead" wasn't used.

Yang used an euphenism, she said she never came back explicitly to state Summer died in that mission, but more dramatically. Because seriously, what sounds better, "she went on a mission and (dramatic pause) never came back", or "she went on a mission and died"? The former, obviously. Gets the point across and sounds cooler.

Yes, Summer is dead, she's nothing but broken bones and a decomposing pile of dead muscle under a tomb on top of a cliff only a few will, or even be capable of, visiting.

In other words, no matter how you look at it, she's dead. Denial won't change it, delusions won't change it. Which would make an appearance more surprising, if it happened in-show, for she's supposed to be dead, as stated, instead of just missing, like most idiots want to believe.

And if it happened in a flashback it makes her appearance more dramatic and tearjerking, for the audience would know she wasn't able to enjoy time with them after that, anymore.

Simple trope use, son.