(Laughing out loud)
Brilliant!
(Laughing out loud again)
"Ethically Challenged Merchant!"
That's what I will have said if I come back and write my last message in
another incarnation.
Your remark on the crew as PCs has me thinking: I wonder what the guy who
played the first engineer did to get kicked out of the group!
Dave
> wrote:
>> I know what you mean, but Whedon has reportedly admitted that it was
>> based on a campaign in a major SF RPG, according to information here,
>> although the primary source is no longer available: [deleted]
>
> I could see that. In fact, the reason I think "Traveller" when I watch
> Firefly is not the "low-tech/hi-tech" mix, "shotguns-in-space", and
> things like that. It is more thematic. First, it is an obvious "Ethically
> Challenged Merchant" campaign. The character mix is built exactly
> like a group of PCs. Not all characters actually have to be PCs,
> but they can be. But to top it all off, the thing is that they *act*
> just like PCs.
>
>> I'm sorry for ruining your light-hearted reply to my light-hearted
>> comment.
>
> You didn't. I just wanted to get my disclaimer in so that no one even
> remotely thought I had any sort of knowledge on the situation.
>
>> Although you're starting to sound like Joss paid you some plausibly
>> deniable hush money. :-)
>
> Geez, that would be *great*. I would *so* pass around the FUD on
> this if I was actually paid to do it! Alas, I am not ...
>
> Mike West
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