User blog comment:Bato of the Heavy Iron Rock Hammer/Zeira dead or alive?/@comment-24546844-20140915013941/@comment-7418318-20140915081323

A nice example and a good movie too. If you haven't, I suggest you watch it... unless you are someone who absolutely needs action scenes in a movie.

Anyway...

This imaginary friend also has great potential for the future story line, more so than a living Zeira I think. If she's alive she's "just" another friend on the journey.

An imaginary friend on the other hand might make a nice sub-arc into the story wher Mavis - now that she is among real people again - gains real friends and can finally heal the mental wounds she got. Like that she can learn to slowly let go of her past and finally "set Zeira free" in a matter of speaking.

A bit like the whole River situation was supposed to work out in Firefly, with her slowly being cured of her mental problems by being among friends and family. Damn that stupid station for cancelling it after 13 episodes *grrr* (incidentally something else worth watching ^^ ).