[Dragaera] [Minor spoiler] Deleted scenes

[Kenneth Gorelick]

On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:22 AM, John Dallman wrote:

> In article 
> <b605c0e31001190352n35a5c6c5w500e5d0a82883f1f at mail.gmail.com>, 
> fistoftyr at gmail.com (Miguel Aja) wrote:
> 
>> Can someone explain to me, in small words I can understand, how Tim
>> Power-esque is the Tim Powers bit in the deleted scenes? I have read 
>> (I think) everything he wrote, and I don't remember it being specially 
>> gory.
> 
> Early Tim Powers novels had an obligatory messy hand injury scene: see 
> especially _The Anubis Gates_, _Dinner at Deviant's Palace_, and 
> _The Drawing of the Dark_. He's mostly grown out of it these days, but 
> it's still the subject of the occasional joke, like this one. SZKB may 
> even be sending up the kinds of injuries that Vlad picks up regularly: 
> those have to be annoying for Vlad, but not put him right out of action, 
> so hands are a reasonable option. 
> 

Anyone remember Combat!, the WW2 drama from the early 1960s? On that show, every week, LIttle John hurt his arm, Cage hurt his leg, and the guest star died...