Coked. Up. Otter.

[synabetic]

What can I say? I'm a fan of funny things. Take the use of "flails around like a coked-up otter" in a review.

Brilliant.

Need context? Okay, you bastards...

"A&E's version of Andromeda flails around like a coked-up otter, especially in the first half hour or so. There's a satellite! And it crashes! And two pesky teens take it into a small town, where

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[synabetic]

Pish.

Disagreed. That's like dismissing Howard as sexist or Lovecraft as racist.
(True but merely products of their times...)

And a bore?

HAH!!!

I laugh at your take, though you are welcome to it.

Anyhow, Leiber wasn't my overall point.

Coked up otters are. ;)

However, you are probably right on the first bits... Sigh.

[synabetic]

I dunno, I really don't see this sexism in Leiber you describe. You make it sound like he penned the Gor books or something... :P

[synabetic]

Yup.

Not that I'm complaining. :)

[wire_mother]

"no offense meant to you Austen fans... but I wouldn't tap her material for an action movie. You know?"

no way! i could totally see Emma Woodhouse leaping in slow motion with the two-gun mojo going, landing in a shoulder roll, and proceeding to kick Augusta in the head.

[lyneidas]

Emma has to rescue her father constantly from dangerous drafts, hazardous foodstuffs, and people ticked off at being told their vacation choices are unhealthy. She's quite the action hero.

[wire_mother]

also a good point!

[lyneidas]

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are hardly more misogynistic than any Bond flick out there, plus there are all those wonderful magical things that would make all those CGI animators that we can't make movies without these days get lots of overtime. They've got the ever-popular walking skeletons, and if I remember correctly, bloodsucking fog.

As to why it hasn't happened yet, I have a feeling that movie producers don't spend a lot of time in used book stores, and their only acquaintance with geekdom is through focus groups of non-geeks.