fairest1 and I agree with you on the love story being more about killing other people than being mushy. I always get sad when the rare post-canon fic I find is all mush when the story had them bickering and/or fighting and such the whole way through, and they just aren't mush people. I agree about the crucialness of swords and martial arts. They just make everything better. It's why I tend to gravitate towards period and wuxia doramas.

And YAY! Another who dislikes As Good As It Gets. Naturally, another one my brother loves. Oddly, a similiar concept worked very well for me in a Japanese drama.

Uhm...shoot...I just remembered there was a book or something I stumbled across recently that involved wolves that I was going to mention to you.

Not Jane Lindskold(though I'm reading the second of that series now and keep thinking of you both) but I can't remember what it was now.