HIGHLA-L Digest - 21 Oct 2005 to 14 Nov 2005 (#2005-124)
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1. Seacouver Repco (12)
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:36:11 -0500
From: "Kathryn L. Zimmerman" <zimmy@highstream.net>
Subject: Seacouver Repco
I caught an episode of Supernatural last night. Jim Byrnes had a
small part. He's looking *very* good.
ZK (Bugs)(Why did it have to be bugs?)
zimmy@highstream.net
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:01:41 -0500
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
ZK says:
> I caught an episode of Supernatural last night. Jim Byrnes had a
> small part. He's looking *very* good.
Guess I better watch that tape one of these days.
Wendy (Anyone keeping up with Adrian's set reports from "The
Source"?)(Seems like a lot of car chases and gun fights.)(Car chases and
gunfights don't really go with Highlander, do they?)(I mean
...*guns*????)(Swords ...we like swords.)(And old-fashioned martial
arts- no wirework or speeded up film.)(And a reasonable amount of
headboard rattling)("I'm Duncan MacLeod and I'm immortal, please take
off your clothes...")(Used to work for Connor)(Speaking of set
reports...which I was...why do people go off to film in Lithuania in the
late fall and then bitch about the weather and the failing
light?)(Vilnius is on the same latitude as....Athabasca.)(Don't these
people ever look at a map?)(It's not going to be daisies and bikinis and
long lazy twilights in Lithuania in November.)(It's overcoats and
sweaters and rain and darkness before dinner.)(And snow if things go
badly)(Why don't our favorite Immortals ever hang out in the
tropics?)(Sunshine, pool bars and scanty clothes on the *men* as well as
on the pouty-lipped, big-chested, otherwise impossibly thin women)(Have
I exceeded the daily recommended allowance of paranthetical?)(Not that
it has ever stopped me before.)(If you were going to film in a national
forest- even one in Lithuania- wouldn't you check if it was OK to drive
cars over the delicate indigenous flora?)(Especially if said car chase
is so important to the plot?)(Do I want to know why a car chase is so
very important to the plot?)(Probably not.)(Most likely has something to
do with the video game.)(I'll stop now.)
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:29:25 -0500
From: Sandy Fields <diamonique@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
At 01:01 PM 11/14/2005, Wendy wrote:
>Wendy (Anyone keeping up with Adrian's set reports from "The
>Source"?)
I haven't. You mean they're actually filming this thing?
-- Sandy
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:43:07 -0600
From: Nora Jones <nora.jones@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
Wendy parenthetically wrote many things:
>Wendy (Anyone keeping up with Adrian's set reports from "The
>Source"?)
Yes.
>(Seems like a lot of car chases and gun fights.)(Car chases and
>gunfights don't really go with Highlander, do they?)
It was motorbikes, not cars... but I would question motorbikes, too... but Richie kinda liked them... but he's dead.
>(I mean
>...*guns*????)(Swords ...we like swords.)(And old-fashioned martial
>arts- no wirework or speeded up film.)(And a reasonable amount of
>headboard rattling)("I'm Duncan MacLeod and I'm immortal, please take
>off your clothes...")(Used to work for Connor)(Speaking of set
>reports...which I was...why do people go off to film in Lithuania in the
>late fall and then bitch about the weather and the failing
>light?)(Vilnius is on the same latitude as....Athabasca.)(Don't these
>people ever look at a map?)(It's not going to be daisies and bikinis and
>long lazy twilights in Lithuania in November.)(It's overcoats and
>sweaters and rain and darkness before dinner.)(And snow if things go
>badly)
Prolly has to do with dollars. They shoulda spent a couple of dollars on a map!
>(Why don't our favorite Immortals ever hang out in the
>tropics?)(Sunshine, pool bars and scanty clothes on the *men* as well as
>on the pouty-lipped, big-chested, otherwise impossibly thin women)
Film in the tropics and save $ on wardrobe!
>(Have
>I exceeded the daily recommended allowance of paranthetical?)(Not that
>it has ever stopped me before.)(If you were going to film in a national
>forest- even one in Lithuania- wouldn't you check if it was OK to drive
>cars over the delicate indigenous flora?)(Especially if said car chase
>is so important to the plot?)(Do I want to know why a car chase is so
>very important to the plot?)(Probably not.)
Again... motorbikes. Maybe Richie IS back if it is so essential to the plot. Surely not.
>(Most likely has something to
>do with the video game.)(I'll stop now.)
Argh, dollars again.
-- Nora (What are horses doing in a motorbike chase?)(That's like bringing a knife to a gunfight!)(Returning to the depths of lurkdom.)
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:46:55 -0600
From: Nora Jones <nora.jones@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
>At 01:01 PM 11/14/2005, Wendy wrote:
>>Wendy (Anyone keeping up with Adrian's set reports from "The
>>Source"?)
Sandy responded:
>I haven't. You mean they're actually filming this thing?
Yep. See: http://www.adrianpaul.net/current/thesource.shtml
-- Nora
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:50:12 -0500
From: Sandy Fields <diamonique@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
At 01:46 PM 11/14/2005, Nora Jones wrote:
>Yep. See: http://www.adrianpaul.net/current/thesource.shtml
Oh d'uh!! Why didn't I think to look there?
Thanks Nora!
-- Sandy
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:22:02 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
> Wendy (Anyone keeping up with Adrian's set reports from "The
> Source"?)
Sure. It's like picking at a scab. (And just as attractive.)
It sounds a mess, really. Few film shoots go smoothly, but most of the
practical problems reported sound like they could have been avoided or at
least more quickly solved w/ a bit of planning & a less cheap-ass location
choice.
>>>("I'm Duncan MacLeod and I'm immortal, please take
> off your clothes...")>>>
W/ as many writers as this script has gone through, surely _someone_ thought
to stick that crucial bit of dialogue in someplace. Or several places....
>>>(Why don't our favorite Immortals ever hang out in the
> tropics?)>>>
Because there's REALLY no place to hide a sword on the beach? But, I can
attest that Maui's available....
Nina (maybe slide the sword under an extra-long beach towel) (do Immies
tan?)
mac.westie@verizon.net
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:31:51 -0500
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
Me:
> >(Seems like a lot of car chases and gun fights.)(Car chases and
> >gunfights don't really go with Highlander, do they?)
Nora:
> It was motorbikes, not cars... but I would question
> motorbikes, too... but Richie kinda liked them... but he's dead.
Right you are...motorbikes. That's make *all* the difference. I can see
why we need a motorbike chase. <EG>
Me:
>(Especially if said car chase
> >is so important to the plot?)(Do I want to know why a car chase is so
> >very important to the plot?)(Probably not.)
Nora:
> Again... motorbikes. Maybe Richie IS back if it is so
> essential to the plot. Surely not.
No...no..a thousand times *no*. Richie can not come back. If Tessa and
Darius and Rebecca and Fitz can't come back, Richie doesn't get to. No
way.
I'm still worried about why this motorbike chase is so integral to the
character development that to lose it would destroy the ending of the
film. Character development *during* a motorbike chase with horses in a
forest? Character development *because of* a motorbike chase (with
horses in a forest)? Someone important must die. Or maybe escape? Or
prove to be such an exceptional motorbike rider that someone else
dedicates his/her life to the sport? Or maybe someone comes to see the
value of a really good horse, even in today's world? What if they film
the chase and then later edit it out - but only after using it for the
main trailer for the movie? Is Duncan on a horse or a motorbike or
neither? Both at the same time - Roman-rider style? If Duncan is on a
horse and Methos is on a motorbike is it a different movie than if
Methos is on the horse and Duncan is on the motorbike? Can Methos be
"Dearth on a Motorbike" just as easily as he was "Death on a Horse"? "I
was death. Death on a horse." "I was death. Death on a motorbike."
Hmmmmm...not quite the same. Maybe it's a flashback ... not *too* far
back since motorbikes aren't exactly ancient.
Nora:
>(What are horses doing in a motorbike chase?)(That's
> like bringing a knife to a gunfight!)(Returning to the depths
> of lurkdom.)
Bad guys have motorbikes...good guys have horses. It's a rule. And a
small child must appear at least once - either as someone to be saved or
an object of immortal regret. A woman will die ... probably get raped
first. Methos and Duncan will have a misunderstanding. Joe will be
exasperated and amused by his immortal buddies. There will be more
bad-guy Watchers than good-guy Watchers. The Source of Immortality will
be discovered in a ring, a wand or a wardrobe depending on which books
the writers are mining this year. In hopes of actually filming the
trilogy, no answers will be provided.
Wendy(Insert the following at
will)()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:50:06 +0200
From: TMar <tmar@polka.co.za>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
Wendy wrote:
>No...no..a thousand times *no*. Richie can not come back. If Tessa and
>Darius and Rebecca and Fitz can't come back, Richie doesn't get to. No
>way.
But... but... it could all have been a trick by the BREW! Richie might
not be
dead! They might have been keeping him "on ice" on holy/unholy (depending
on which version of the movie you watch) ground! You never know!!
- Marina. (Don't know why they couldn't come and film in South Africa.)
(Where it's warm and sunny.) (And the people speak English.)
\\ "Good girls go to heaven. |>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
// Bad girls go to Smallville." || >>>R I C H I E >>> \\
\\ - 'Sorority Boys' wallpaper ||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
//==tmar@polka.co.za= ===|| \\
\\===Chief Flag Waver and Defender of Richie====//
"You know, Kent, it's always been my policy to back my reporters
one thousand percent. I mean, if you went up there and opened
those windows and told me that you could fly, I'd back you up.
I'd miss you, but I'd back you up." - Perry White; Lois & Clark.
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:14:01 -0600
From: Nora Jones <nora.jones@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
Wendy:
>> >(Seems like a lot of car chases and gun fights.)(Car chases and
>> >gunfights don't really go with Highlander, do they?)
>
Me:
>> It was motorbikes, not cars... but I would question
>> motorbikes, too... but Richie kinda liked them... but he's dead.
Wendy:
>Right you are...motorbikes. That's make *all* the difference. I can see
>why we need a motorbike chase. <EG>
There're all those leftover motorbikes from Endgame. And wooded areas just call out to have people on motorbikes flying through them chasing each other. And this is different from the Ewok planet because it isn't green and pretty, it's brown, rainy, and nasty. And the bikes won't fly because flying in HL is passe. (I'm hoping.)
Wendy:
>Bad guys have motorbikes...good guys have horses. It's a rule.
But Richie was a good guy, wasn't he? But there were all those bad dudes on motorbikes in Endgame. I guess some precedents don't count in HL, dead ones anyway.
-- Nora (also scratching my head as to how a motorbike chase can be intregral to the plot)(just less verbosely than Wendy)
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:39:13 EST
From: Highlandmg@aol.com
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
Sandy writes
Oh d'uh!! Why didn't I think to look there?
Me
Old age????? maybe if you check in once a while....
Love
Mary
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:57:44 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Seacouver Repco
Wendy--
> Or maybe someone comes to see the
> value of a really good horse, even in today's world?
And the undeniable sub-text would no doubt inspire a whole new branch of HL
fanfic....
Nina (if there's already Mister Ed slash out there, I don't want to know)
mac.westie@verizon.net
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