HIGHLA-L Digest - 17 Jul 2003 to 18 Jul 2003 (#2003-159)
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Topics of the day:
1. Brothers in Arms
2. Homeland
3. HL1 & Endgame--Silvercup?
4. HL Trivia--season 3 part 4 ANSWERS
5. HL Trivia--Season 3 part 5 & Season 4 part 1
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:24:33 -0400
From: Wendy Tillis <immortals_incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Brothers in Arms
Mel wrote:
>I've kinda been waiting for this ep a while and anyway
>my one big question is "Why didn't Duncan tell Charlie
>earlier?" I don't get why he waited until it was too
>late.
Telling people about your immortality is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" proposition. I think Duncan was in a phase where he was trying hard *not* to involved any more mortals in his dangerous life. He put off telling Anne as long as he could (Longer, IMGLO, than he should have.) He didn't tell Renee. He didn't tell Maurice. And he didn't tell Charlie. Charlie didn't strike me as the kind of guy who would have just accepted the knowledge and then stayed out of the way. He would have wanted to be a part of Duncan's world and Duncan didn't really need another sidekick- especially one who *wasn't* going to be Immortal someday. The best Duncan could do was try and keep Charlie and any visiting Immortals apart. It might have made sense to tell him when he was supposedly dying after being shot by Xavier's men, but once he recovered...what would have been the point? And then Charlie went off to the Balkans. Duncan surely didn't count on Mara getting killed by an Immo!
rtal.
Would it have made sense to tell Charlie about Cord as soon as everyone realized that Charlie was hunting Cord and why? Maybe. Then again....if Charlie knew what Cord was, he probably would have just taken a bigger knife to the fight. And Duncan was trying very hard in the episode to *not* kill Cord because of Joe. If Charlie had understood that Cord was off limits to mortals, wouldn't he have pressured Duncan to kill him instead? Kill Cord to make Charlie happy or don't kill him to make Joe happy?? As it was, Cord killed Charlie and Duncan killed Cord and no one was happy.
>I can really see the emotion in Joe's face at the
>end...and I'm glad that Duncan was able to make peace
>with him later on.
I'm not sure they ever truly made peace. They managed to get over it but their relationship was never quite the same. The Watcher Rules do make a certain amount of sense. You can't be a real Watcher (hands off at all times) if you are also good friends with an Immortal. Joe liked to use Duncan. He liked to live vicariously through Duncan. And, of course, Duncan got use to going to Joe for information. I think the worst part of the relationship was that Joe was incapable of sticking to a decision. Duncan would have respected it either way - friends with Joe or not friends with Joe - but the constant whipsawing was hard.
Wendy(Levitating houses next.)(:::shudder::::)
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:39:53 -0500
From: Ginny <RED57@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Homeland
<br>
<br>
<span type="cite">FKMel wrote:</span>
<p> </p>
<blockquote type="cite" > <tt>
I have to say I really liked this ep even if there are <br>
some canon flaws, like Glenfinnan not being in MacLeod <br>
lands in RL....I can overlook that stuff because it's <br>
a fantasy universe. It seems that AP did a good job <br>
directing the ep. </tt></blockquote>
I hadn't realized this until I started studying maps for the impending
trip. I wonder if it was a decision based on logistics (mainland versus
island) and availability of a photogenic ruined castle for filming? <br>
<br>
Also - I didn't forget to wave to the nice lady with the shopping bag!
Hi, Elaine! <br>
<span>--<br>
Ginny<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:RED57@aol.com">RED57@aol.com</a><br>
Fresh out of .sig lines</span>
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:50:35 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: HL1 & Endgame--Silvercup?
Gail--
> The Silvercup Bakery has been on the Queens side of the Queensboro bridge
> (59th street bridge) for over 60 years. It was turned into the Silvercup
> studios after it stopped being a bakery.
Thanks for the info.
Re: the sign stunt, it's nice that the series finally got to do one of its
own w/ Hennessey in Methuselah's Gift.
Nina
mac.westie@verizon.net
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:53:58 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: HL Trivia--season 3 part 4 ANSWERS
HL Trivia--season 3 part 4 ANSWERS
Methos
Name of Kalas' Paris jazz club--Nosferatu
Richie's motorcycle racing team & his number--Saracen Team, #2
Name of the Watcher-run bookstore in Paris--Shakespeare & Company
The famous person Duncan greets as an acquaintance at the 1920
party--Picasso
Methos' motto--"Live, grow stronger, fight another day."
Take Back the Night
Name of Duncan's young pick-pocket friend--Paolo
Who Ceirdwyn's people fight in 60AD Britain--the Romans
How Ceirdwyn helps Bonnie Prince Charlie--dresses him as a woman (to elude
the English as he flees to France after Culloden)
Motorcycle racer who dies in a fiery crash along w/ Richie--Basil Dornin
Duncan to Bonnie Prince Charlie--"___________ rides w/ the House of Stuart.
You cannot lose it, whatever the dress." (Dignity)
Testimony
The drug Tasha carries for Kristov--heroin
Duncan's assessment, to Anne, of Marie Antoinette--"incredibly sexy"
Besides working w/ the Russian Mafia, what is Kristov's current
hobby--painting
How Duncan spots the fake male nurse--expensive boots
What is the name on Richie's fake passport--Bill Powel
Mortal Sins
Where young Bernard hides the Resistance radio--in a wheelbarrow full of
nuts
What Anne spills on herself at the barge--coffee
What young Bernard uses to stab & "kill" Daimler--a pitchfork
The other episode where Georges Dalou appears--For Tomorrow We Die
Who does Duncan quote as----"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is
for good men to do nothing."--Edmund Burke
Reasonable Doubt
Value of the Da Vinci print stolen from Franklin Waterman, & the amount of
ransom demanded for it--$3,000,000, $100,000
What Duncan is looking forward to eating at Maurice's restaurant--the
bouillabaisse
Where Simone really works--a whorehouse
Where Kagan stabs Maurice--hand
Name of Kagan's teacher--Tarsis
Nina
mac.westie@verizon.net
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:01:52 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: HL Trivia--Season 3 part 5 & Season 4 part 1
HL Trivia--Season 3 part 5 & Season 4 part 1
Finale I
Location of Amanda's new body-piercing?
The memento Duncan has from Hamza?
What Duncan objects to when he is served a beverage in the flashback?
Name of Kalas' psychotic assistant?
Where Christine Salzer finds the Watcher computer disk?
The Chinese curse Methos invokes (& Joe actually recites)?
Finale II
What Duncan eats in the flashback?
The injury Duncan gets in the flashback?
The type of dance Duncan & Amanda perform atop the Eiffel Tower?
When was the Eiffel Tower built?
Methos to Duncan--"Every cloud has a silver lining. ... If you die, Amanda
will be free to ___________."
What Amanda loans to Duncan for luck against Kalas?
Season 4
Homeland
Duncan to the gallery owner--"_____________, on the shores of Loch Shiel. I
was born there."
What Duncan finally pays for the Celtic bracelet in the Paris gallery?
The name of Rachel MacLeod's establishment, & Duncan's room number there?
Where Duncan hid Kanwulf's axe?
What ruins Joe's good shoes?
Name of the song used throughout this episode?
Who directed this episode?
Brothers in Arms
How far Andrew Cord carries a wounded Joe in Vietnam?
Name of the soldier who recruits Joe into the Watcher Organization?
Name of Charlie's girlfriend, killed by Cord?
Nickname Cord has for Joe?
Cord--"You got a lot of friends, Joe. It's a regular __________
___________ over here."
The Innocent
Mikey's obsession?
Name of the property Duncan buys?
2 things Richie gives to Mikey?
Who plays Tyler King, & the other episode the actor appears in?
How Mikey loses his head, & who takes the Quickening?
Nina
mac.westie@verizon.net
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