trappedslider
Legend
Well Joss has stated that plot points that would have been in season two were used in the movie....
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Well Joss has stated that plot points that would have been in season two were used in the movie....
Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
For the original run in finland I was 12, I think
I didn't really get much into it either back then, though I watched it all. but they did a rerun a few years back and I loved it now.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I have it now in my netflix que.
Dog Moon
Adventurer
I guess specifically I was talking about the random death of one of the main characters. The rest of the stuff was fine, I suppose.
Dog Moon
Adventurer
For the original run in finland I was 12, I think
Yeah, apparently it came out in 1994. I would have been 11.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Nagas tend to be called as guardians, so some sort of treasure to be guarded, plus what ever fallen combatants would have left.
trappedslider
Legend
I do believe that was one of the plot points lol
Scotley
Hero
I think your later post answers the first. I read most of this stuff from Middle School to College which was basically in the 80's. The Thieves World and Wild cards are shared world anthologies with various authors, fantasy city setting and supers starting in the 'golden age' respectively. Either would be fertile ground for TV. Thieves world has dozens of books and some RPG tie-ins. I think it died and was resurrected at least once. Wild Cards was started by George R. R. Martin and at 20 books plus is still going. I only read the first couple not being a big supers fan. Some, like the Lieber and Moorcock are fantasy and even earlier than the 80's. The Lieber and Moorcock certainly had an influence on the genesis of roleplaying games. I wasn't familiar with the Kurt R.A. Giambastiani books, but I googled and the premise looks interesting. The Kristine Kathryn Rusch is likely the most recent, but it sort of reminds me of much earlier stuff like Asimov or Heinlein in setting and tone. Anyway, their is a lot of good stuff in there. Cherryh is good and more recent, she does SciFi with a some deep world building and interesting psychology. The Barbara Hambly is vampire hunter stuff if memory serves, but she is very prolific and has written all kinds of stuff including sword and sorcery and I think I even read some sherlock holmes stories she did. The Bova is near future set in our solar system I think. I read some of those a few years back. Seems like he did a good time travel yarn too. The Cook stuff is sort of Sam Spade in a fantasy world. The dialogue can be laugh out loud funny. He wrote some darker fantasy about a mercenary company that always made me feel like he was a gamer. Don't know if that's true. Harry Turtledove does a lot of cool alternate history stuff. I haven' t read the Darkness books, but I gather that he sort of dumps world war 2 into a magical medieval world. Sounds like something I'd enjoy as I am a bit of a war buff. So many books, so little time. These days I download a lot of audiobooks to listen to in the car because I get at least an hour a day of 'reading' in that way. So if I can't track down the audio I often don't get to read it unless it is an author I have enough faith in to commit my minimal and very precious free time to. Anyway, fertile ground for your SciFi and Fantasy enlightenment. Dannyalcatraz appears to have excellent taste in books.
FYI, Cook's Garrett books are a direct play off of the Nero Woolfe detective novels.
Hambly's Dark Novels were somewhat vampiry, somewhat demony.
The rest you pretty much nailed.
Bova's Grand Tour is about man's exploration of our Solar system.
Turtledove's transposition of WW2 into a fantasy realm was stunningly good. Worked in elements buffs would go "YEAH!" over, and his handling of the big issues- the Final Solution, the Bomb, etc.- coheres well with the fantasy setting.
Hambly's Dark Novels were somewhat vampiry, somewhat demony.
The rest you pretty much nailed.
Bova's Grand Tour is about man's exploration of our Solar system.
Turtledove's transposition of WW2 into a fantasy realm was stunningly good. Worked in elements buffs would go "YEAH!" over, and his handling of the big issues- the Final Solution, the Bomb, etc.- coheres well with the fantasy setting.
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