HIGHLA-L Digest - 17 Oct 2004 to 18 Oct 2004 (#2004-191)
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Topics of the day:
1. CAH/Rev6:8 DVD commentary question (3)
2. OT: No Vampire Left Behind.
3. Season 5 dvd Commentary: =?ISO-8859-1?B?oFRoZSBNZXNzZW5nZXI=?=
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:25:08 -0400
From: Heidi <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: CAH/Rev6:8 DVD commentary question
Just catching up on some messages from a bit ago.
From: kageorge <kageorge@erols.com>
(commentaries) [..] and there have been several episodes where I felt
major issues were ignored. For instance, I recall that the director
of "Courage" [..] talked about it being an anti-drug episode, when
that wasn't the core message at all. [..] That's just one example of
many times substantive issues that would have been fascinating to explore
from the series' creators/writers/producers, but were not touched upon.
I didn't realize you meant specific topics you wanted them to talk about
when you said they `frequently missed the boat' on commentaries. I
thought you meant the lack of information in general in some of them.
What they should have done for the Horsemen episodes was something
similar to what they did for "Something Wicked/"Deliverance", where they
had a whole section of outtakes and commentary at the end of that
season's disks.
I don't remember specificially what they did for SW/D since I haven't
watched it for awhile. But most (maybe all) the episodes in the S5
set have comments from assorted people about each episode. They're
a separate part of the disc though and not ones that run along with
the episode itself. Offhand I don't think there were any outtakes for
CAH/Rev6:8 on the DVDs.
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(heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu)
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:28:01 +0100
From: "a.j.mosby" <a.j.mosby@btinternet.com>
Subject: OT: No Vampire Left Behind.
Mr Whedon goes to Washington.
http://www.highstakes2004.com/
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:11:00 -0400
From: kageorge <kageorge@erols.com>
Subject: Re: CAH/Rev6:8 DVD commentary question
Heidi wrote:
>(snip)
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>I don't remember specificially what they did for SW/D since I haven't
>watched it for awhile. But most (maybe all) the episodes in the S5
>set have comments from assorted people about each episode. They're
>a separate part of the disc though and not ones that run along with
>the episode itself. Offhand I don't think there were any outtakes for
>CAH/Rev6:8 on the DVDs.
>
>
I would be *very* surprised if there were no outtakes for either of
those episodes, but I'll find out when I get to them in my
commentaries. I'm almost there, since I just posted the commentary for
"The Messenger", although they are going a little slowly at the moment
due to those pesky RL commitments.
MacG
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:04:39 -0400
From: Heidi <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: CAH/Rev6:8 DVD commentary question
From: kageorge <kageorge@EROLS.COM>
I would be *very* surprised if there were no outtakes for either of
those episodes
That was a mistake on my part which I remembered after I sent it. There
are a few. Sevearl takes of the `Jimmy Scene', the scene where M,K, and
S talk to the doctor at the asylum, and some of the quickening.
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:24:29 -0400
From: SenseiRob@aol.com
Subject: Re: Season 5 dvd Commentary: =?ISO-8859-1?B?oFRoZSBNZXNzZW5nZXI=?=
>Gillian notes that, up until that point in the series, the Methos we
>knew had never had a flashback, so the possibility still existed that
>“our” Methos was fake, a guy just calling himself Methos. She liked the
>notion that we could have been acquainted with a character for years,
>and suddenly discovered that everything you believed about him was a lie.
I always felt so vindicated by this episode. I could never understand how Duncan made a ridiculous leap of faith ( "...Methos?" ) and actually came to the conclusion with no incontrovertible evidence (and Adam Pierson never actually suggesting it!) that the big-nosed guy was this legendary oldest immortal. It was definitely an unpopular opinion here, but it was a heckuva lot of fun. I flat out refused to believe Peter Wingfield really was playing the oldest immortal Methos until they proved it, onscreen. The fact that GH actually comes right out and says the same thing, even years after the fact, brings a smirk to my face.
Related bits of List lore to this assumption-gone-awry are "The Dread Pirate Methos", where immortals would assume the name and mantle after the original had slipped away some time ago... and that's exactly what "The Messenger" was all about.
See? So I got something right in all those years of fandom. <wink>
-Rob (Now if they'd only gotten rid of the Watchers, made only one movie and set HL:TS before it, and left Connor as the One...)
SenseiRob@aol.com
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