HIGHLA-L Digest - 27 Jun 2004 to 28 Jun 2004 (#2004-122)
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Topics of the day:
1. Watchers (Was: Season Four dvds: The Colonel)
2. Too Good to be True?
3. [highla] Immortals Among Us...For Real??
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:10:37 -0400
From: kageorge <kageorge@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Watchers (Was: Season Four dvds: The Colonel)
From: "Wendy Tillis" <immortals_incorporated@cox.net>
> I'm sure Watchers fall into three categories. They all, I'd guess, start
out being fascinated by the concept of Immortals and with the intention of
just watching - cold, clinical but a great show. After a while, some become
revolted by these jerks who live forever and do such horrible things (to
other Immortals and to mortals). This group either quit or become Hunters
like Horton. A second, and by far the largest group, remain interested in
the Immortals as an intellectual pursuit and manage to balance the horror
that many Immortals are with the greatness of a few. They manage to watch
the Game from the outside and don't allow themselves to become too
emotionally involved - either pro or con. Ian is stereotypical of this
group. Then there is the third group who become so enamored of Immortals in
general, or their personal Immortal in particular, that they can no longer
watch without interacting. Joe is one example.Rita is another. Joe wants to
*be* Duncan. He wants to be t!
> he hero. He wants to rescue the fair maidens and slay the evil doers. He
wants to be young and healthy and mobile. If he can't be Duncan, he wants to
be friends with Duncan. He wants to sit around the bar with Duncan and
rehash old battles and old loves. He also wants to use Duncan as a weapon -
to send Duncan out to right wrongs that Joe, himself, can't right. And he
wants Duncan to win so that he is on the winning team - even if he's only
cheering from the side-lines. He wasn't emotionally healthy when Ian
recruited him and he never really totally recovered.
>
I agree with all of this. I think the Watchers are fundamentally creepy,
and while I like Joe as a character, there is something basically wrong
about choosing a life of being a voyeur to a race of people who regularly
chop other people's heads off. It seems to me to be a given that these
marginally functional people (those who join the Watchers would seem to be
to be likely to be loaners and misfits to begin with) can easily succumb to
either fanatical hatred or fanatical devotion. Let's face it, we've seen
the Watchers do far more bad things than good. I'm not just talking about
Horton and his gang, but the Watcher in "Run for Your Life" and again in
"Pharaoh's Daughter" and again in "The Darkness. Then we've got the whole
Tribunal madness in "Judgment Day" and "OMTM." These folks are a
semi-criminal organization operating in secret, using covert methods of
observation, and a breeding ground for whackos.
MacG
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:20:52 EDT
From: EllnT@aol.com
Subject: Too Good to be True?
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What do we think?
Ellen
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:23:50 EDT
From: EllnT@aol.com
Subject: Re: [highla] Immortals Among Us...For Real??
In a message dated 6/26/2004 10:07:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
twodeel@jornada.org writes:
Weekly World News, the tabloid
that makes up all their stories (and probably photographs too -- they're
famous for their pictures of "Bat Boy"), and should be read with
appropriate skepticism.
No!!! Tell me it ain't SOOOOOOOO! Aarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh!!!
If you can't believe the printed word what can you believe? Next you'll be
telling me Hillary Clinton DIDN"T have an alien affair!
<Snicker> Couldn't resist.
Ellen
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