HIGHLA-L Digest - 6 Jan 2004 to 7 Jan 2004 (#2004-7)
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Topics of the day:
1. OT: Suggestion
2. Highlander Alumni - where are they now? (3)
3. episode details (2)
4. Where are they? Well, Jim's on Jake 2.0
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:42:28 -0800
From: Jen <data@cyberg8t.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Suggestion
I never did before. I think years ago it was [HIGHLA-L], but that went
away. *L* And then last week, it was [HL], but that went away too. *L*
Jen the Fangirl
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From: "Jette Goldie" <jette@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
To: <HIGHLA-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [HL] OT: Suggestion
> > Could a permanent subject like (HIGHLA-L) be added? It would REALLY
help
> > me. Most of the messages for this list get lost in the swamp of spam.
> >
> >
>
> Um - I get [HL] on all posts from HIGHLA-L. don't you?
>
> Jette Goldie
> jette@blueyonder.co.uk
> "If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost"
> http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
>
>
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:44:59 -0800
From: Jen <data@cyberg8t.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander Alumni - where are they now?
*sighs* I did some research on Code Name: Eternity and I found out that =
it has already ended it's run. SciFi just bought it to play in the US. =
What struck me to be odd was when I was Ingrid...I forget her last name =
*F* as the female lead. She plays Erin in Jeremiah, as a regular. I =
didn't think she could be doing two shows at once...and then I saw the =
date on CN:E. It's from 1999, I think. *sighs* I guess it was just =
shown in Canada before.
Jen the Fangirl
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Ginny=20
To: HIGHLA-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU=20
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: [HL] Highlander Alumni - where are they now?
I didn't see if anyone had noticed this before - Highlander Alum =
Cameron Bancroft is the lead in the new SciFi series=20
Code Name: Eternity.=20
And heh heh, this link is a twofer - it includes a mention of Michael =
Shanks, a Highlander alum owing to his appearance in the episode we love =
to hate, "The Zone." =20
http://www.scifi.com/eternity/cast/bancroft.html
--=20
Ginny
RED57@aol.com
Fresh out of .sig lines=20
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:11:23 -0500
From: JoAnne Briere <jojoann@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Highlander Alumni - where are they now?
I have taped all 22 episodes when they aired in reruns last year. They have
weird production number and are not always shown in the same order; one
network showed them in production number which is erroneous. The other
showed them in sequence order which makes a little more sense. It made me
realised the parallell with the first season of HL.
I wonder if you will lose four minutes again when you see these for the
first time.
Don`t forget this show predates AP alien show, the whatsitsname show that
still reruns here (CNE does not run anymore however). And that Cameron
depiction of an alien is nice :) Won't comment on the show but ...
Tigidou, à la prochaine,
JoAnne
At 07:44 PM 06/01/2004 -0800, Jen wrote:
>*sighs* I did some research on Code Name: Eternity and I found out that
>it has already ended it's run. SciFi just bought it to play in the
>US. What struck me to be odd was when I was Ingrid...I forget her last
>name *F* as the female lead. She plays Erin in Jeremiah, as a regular. I
>didn't think she could be doing two shows at once...and then I saw the
>date on CN:E. It's from 1999, I think. *sighs* I guess it was just shown
>in Canada before.
>
>Jen the Fangirl
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ginny
> To: HIGHLA-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:05 PM
> Subject: [HL] Highlander Alumni - where are they now?
>
>
>
> I didn't see if anyone had noticed this before - Highlander Alum
> Cameron Bancroft is the lead in the new SciFi series
> Code Name: Eternity.
>
> And heh heh, this link is a twofer - it includes a mention of Michael
> Shanks, a Highlander alum owing to his appearance in the episode we love
> to hate, "The Zone."
>
> http://www.scifi.com/eternity/cast/bancroft.html
>
> --
> Ginny
> RED57@aol.com
> Fresh out of .sig lines
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:33:43 -0800
From: FKMel <sgt_buck_frobisher@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander Alumni - where are they now?
Don`t forget this show predates AP alien show, the
> whatsitsname show that
> still reruns here
Tracker. Aw, now I'm jealous, because those darn Scifi
people here quit airing it....without even finishing
the series either time. I know some didn't think it
was all that good, but even it was better than stuff
like Tremors or Scare Tactics. Ohwell, that's
Scifi....They quit showing FK as well.
Mel (but, I digress.....although since GWD was in one
HL ep, we could call it marginally connected....)
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:23:08 -0700
From: Firefly <airedale@northerntel.net>
Subject: episode details
Is there a site with a detailed synopsis of each episode, or at least
season one? A friend (Jason Isaacs fan) hasn't seen The Lady and the Tiger
yet and would like to read up on it.
Thanks,
Barbara
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:52:44 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: episode details
> Is there a site with a detailed synopsis of each episode, or at least
> season one? A friend (Jason Isaacs fan) hasn't seen The Lady and the Tiger
> yet and would like to read up on it.
Below is my synopsis of this ep, as originally posted on the old Tube
Reviews website. (I need to get all 119 write-ups posted again someplace,
but haven't had the time to mess w/ it.)
The very best HL:TS reviews & commentary is, I think, on the HAM site. I
could spend DAYS there....
http://members.tripod.com/~theheasleys/reviews.html
The page for this ep in particular is--
http://members.tripod.com/~theheasleys/reviews/archive/arch_h_tlatt.txt
Nina
mac.westie@verizon.net
EPISODE: THE LADY AND THE TIGER
AIRDATE: 4-19-93
CAST: Adrian Paul (Duncan MacLeod), Alexandra Vandernoot
(Tessa Noel), Stan Kirsch (Richie Ryan)
GUEST
CAST: Elizabeth Gracen (Amanda), Jason Isaacs (Zachary Blaine),
Pierre Gerald (Henry Lamartine), Michael Hofland (Bavarian
Officer)
WRITTEN
BY: Philip John Taylor
DIRECTED
BY: Robin Davis
NETWORK: Syndicated
GRADE: B
REVIEW: "The Amazing Amanda" with her daring high-wire circus act is
also Immortal Amanda from Duncan's past love life. Sheepish now when he
takes Tessa and Richie to the circus and they all chat, Duncan says Amanda
is "Just a bad habit." Actually, she is a thief.
Back in 1804 Bavaria, Amanda and Duncan were lovers. He surprised her,
returning from a trip to Munich as she was fleeing with her jewel-thieving
partner, Immortal Zachary Blaine, one step ahead of the authorities. She
distracted Duncan with love-making before sneaking off in the night; in a
typical Amanda ambiguity, she left Duncan a signet ring from the booty--as a
memento or to frame him? Amanda and Duncan have been together many times
over the centuries. He disapproves of her tendency to steal and hates the
way she always leaves him holding the bag, but he cannot stay mad at
her--she can always make him laugh. Now, Amanda tries to rekindle the
romance. Amanda-"Come with me." Duncan-"No.thanks.I've already had that
pleasure."
Recently, Amanda staged her own death and framed the troublesome Blaine, to
get rid of him; he was imprisoned but escaped and now spares her life only
when she promises him Duncan's head plus a fortune from her planned museum
heist of a rare book. Tessa is suspicious and instantly jealous of Amanda
despite Duncan's reassurance--"Listen, young lady, she's no competition."
Richie is smitten with the sensuous Immortal. When Duncan gets in the way
of her plans, Amanda has her circus cronies capture him; he escapes by
showing off an old circus act of his own--knife-throwing while horse-back
riding. Duncan foils the heist and fights Blaine, but Amanda steps in at
the end to behead Blaine. She makes one last play for Duncan, but he
chooses Tessa. Amanda--"She's going to get old." Duncan--"I don't care."
Amanda broke the Immortals' rule of one-on-one fighting when she stepped in
and beheaded Blaine. They should have noticed Richie's pre-Immortal buzz
when he was following them. According to later episodes, Duncan and Amanda
met several times between this episode and back in 1926 at Barnum and Bailey
(as detailed in "Money No Object")--the writers just had not realized it at
this early point. The ruffled white shirt Duncan pulls on at the end of the
flashback is the same one Amanda wears in current action 2 scenes later
(meeting Blaine). The perfect foil for the brooding, moralistic Duncan,
Amanda is a fun, clever and flamboyant character, and Elizabeth Gracen
becomes a welcome recurring player in later seasons. The sizzling flashback
love scene here demonstrates the chemistry between her and Adrian Paul.
Amanda appears in a total of 18 series episodes; she went on to one season
of adventures in Highlander: The Raven. In Raven's "Full Disclosure,"
Amanda repeats one of her lines from this episode--"A girl's gotta do what a
girl's gotta do." Raven's "The Devil You Know" uses a clip of Amanda in the
hoist stealing the book, and dialogue there states that the rare book she
stole here was The Guttenberg Bible. Raven's "The Frame" twice uses a clip
of the deserted museum steps with stone lion. Raven's "Love and Death" uses
the phone booth in the Quickening explosion. Official sources credit Amanda
with several surnames including Darrieux, LeFauve, Rochelle, Montrose and
DuPar; she was born in 820 in St. Anne, dying in 850--killed for robbing a
plague-ridden hovel, as will be shown in "Legacy." Blaine was born in 1712
Hamburg, first dying in 1748 when a jealous fellow performer sabotaged his
tightrope. Elizabeth Gracen's acting career was preceded by a stint as Miss
America 1982, hailing from Arkansas. The Euro-version includes a scene with
Blaine at a sword store; finally satisfied with his choice, he kills the
store owner rather than paying by cash or charge, exiting on "I won't leave
home without it." Duncan chats with Amanda after his first fight with
Blaine is interrupted; she offers to swear on a Bible that she never saw the
other guy before, just as she offers to thank Duncan properly for his
services, but he declines.
Nina Geiger
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 20:58:36 -0600
From: Ginny <RED57@aol.com>
Subject: Where are they? Well, Jim's on Jake 2.0
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Jim Byrnes just popped up in the Jake 2.0 episode that TiVo captured
tonight. We started watching it just now, but I think the episode is
almost over. I hope some of you got a chance to see him.
No spoilers! Still have to watch in TiVo time. ;)
And here's another blast from the past: the late, great HL-IV parody
written by all of us back when HLIII came out to universal groans of
disappointment. Marina seems to be taking good care of it. ;)
"I mean, HOW did they make it look like Jim Byrnes really has legs?" -
Carol Ann Liddiard
Of all the wacky things for TPTB make come true out of that glorious
spumoni of a collaboration, this is the best.
--
Ginny
RED57@aol.com
Fresh out of .sig lines
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