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Is Jim Butcher a Joss Whedon Fan?

POSTED BY: WHISPER
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:44
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:08 PM

WHISPER


For those of you who don't know who Jim Butcher is, he is the author of a great series of books called the Dresden Files.

Anyways, I am currently reading the latest installment "Dead Beat" and a few lines of dialogue really made me go "wait a minute!"

So far the lines I noticed were:

From "Dead Beat"---> "Listen to me! We are not going to die!" -Harry
"We're not?"- Butters
"No. And do you know why?...Because Thomas is too pretty to die." -Harry

Sounds alot like Firefly "Serenity"---> "We're not gonna die, Bendis!... We are just too pretty for god to let us die!" -Mal (sorry if the quote isn't exact)


From "Dead Beat"---> "That's the worst part about the walking dead... the stains." -Harry

Sounds alot like Buffy "When She Was Bad"---> "Thats the worst part about being hung upside down by a vampire that wants to slit your throat... the stains." -Jenny


Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but those quotes happened within pages of each other and it was making me wonder.


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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:26 PM

EVILMIKE


I'm not too sure. After all, Harry also used Polka as a reason to live in this one too. I don't think Joss have ever mentioned that.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:47 PM

WHISPER


Yeah, Butcher did use polka too. "Polka will never die!" Laughed out loud at that one.

I got to thinking about it and Butcher did use James Marsters (AKA Spike) as the Audio Book reader. So maybe he is. I don't know. Now I want to re-read the entire series to find any more similar lines.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 6:48 PM

AMYEL


Jim Butcher is more of a JJ Abrams uberfan, but he certainly knows his Joss. If you go to the website www.jim-butcher.com, you can subscribe to the Harry Dresden mailing list. Jim Butcher posts frequently. There are usually many Buffy/Angel/Firefly threads going on at any given time, and Jim has proven that he knows just about every detail from those shows.

It's a pretty good mailing list if you're into those sort of things. If you like books and are a genre TV fangeek then you'd fit right in.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:44 AM

DEANNAMAY


I noticed that line, about being too pretty to die, when I read the book, and thought the same thing. Harry would be a Malcolm Reynolds fan for sure. Love that series, hope it goes on for many more volumes.

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