For anyone who watched Monday night's 'very special' Halloween episode of Castle, you were treated to a none-too-subtle shoutout to genre fans. The episode starts out with Nathan Fillion ("Castle") playing with quick-drawing and re-holstering a cool-looking pistol while wearing his old costume from "Firefly." (in which he played Mal Reynolds)

He busts in to his livingroom, gun drawn, and his daughter asks him what he's supposed to be. "I'm a space cowboy."
"One," she replies, "There are no cows in space, and two, didn't you wear that thing like five years ago?"

PLEASE NOTE: This is part 7 of the story. Part 1 is online here http://www.republibot.com/content/original-fiction-visions-sound-richard... and part 8 will go online next Sunday.
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It took six jumps to reach Epsilon. After each one the pain and disorientation lessened as if their minds and bodies were becoming used to the quantum transitions. Ten and a half light years in thirteen hours! Amazing, thought Watez. Two hours between jumps with a little time for Doctor Lovelock to take medical readings.

It's Batman and Black Canary taking on Dr. Horrible... I mean, Freakazoid... in this latest episode of The Animaniacs!

No spoilers this time, kids. Nothing to spoil.

"Was the singing really necessary?"--Batman