Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: > Chris (Who's annoyed with television, and will go back to > watching movies, thank you. Except for old-season X-Files...:) Speaking of television, did anyone get a chance to watch Firefly during its short run on Fox? I managed to see every episode, and the style of the show really reminded me of a Vlad novel. Not the setting, mind you, but the plots, pacing, witty banter and fight scenes. The captain in particular was Vlad all over. There's a scene in the pilot episode where a bandit has one of the crewmembers in a choke hold with a gun to her head. The captain walks in, and before the bandit can finish saying "Stop or I'll shoot," the captain shoots him in the head and keeps walking. Reminded me of Vlad and his throwing knives. There was also a scene in another episode in which the captain and another character are confronted by three or four bad guys who they know they can't outfight, so the captain offers one of them a hefty sum of money to kill the others, just like Vlad in "Orca". Brilliant. The witty dialogue was another Brust-like element that really made that show enjoyable. It's a Joss Whedon trademark, I know, but that combined with the other Brust similarities gave me the willies. It's a shame the show was canceled. I wonder what would happen if Joss Whedon and Steven Brust teamed up to develop a Vlad Taltos TV series? ;) -- Ryan Grove ryan at wonko.com http://wonko.com/