HIGHLA-L Digest - 23 May 2006 to 24 May 2006 (#2006-88)
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There are 11 messages totalling 403 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Methos (2)
2. The Source? (4)
3. Peter on Medium (4)
4. The Source? -- sorry
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 21:59:12 -0700
From: Jen <data@cyberg8t.com>
Subject: Re: Methos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heidi" <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
To: <HIGHLA-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [HL] Methos
> From: Evelyn Duncan <BrandyKitt@aol.com>
> Has anyone ever tried to determine where Methos was born?
Heidi said:
> Is there anything to actually figure out? I thought he said in his
> first episode that everything over 5000 years is a blur. I don't
> think there was any info in the show to hint at when or where he's
> from. So it could be pretty much anywhere.
There is a great deal! PW's version of Methos's history appears in An
Evening at Joe's, edited by Gillian Horvath.
Jen the Fangirl
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 06:55:57 -0500
From: Elaine <elaine@inguz.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Source?
>>We plan to visit my husband's family's "pile of rocks" in southeast
Scotland, spend a few days on the Isle of Skye (and ride Clydesdales on
the beach), spend the night in a castle near Inverness and then spend
several days at a farm B&B in between Glasgow and Edinburgh, hoping to
use that as a base to visit other places.<<
Hope you are booked.
>>As a member of the sleeping Magic Springs board on aol, I was
wondering if there were any parts of the Evil Duncan -- "Magic Springs"
episode what might have been taped in Scotland. Seems like somebody had
a list of where things were taped and filmed on a web site someplace...
Is it my imagination....<<
The only episode with any filming done in Scotland was Homeland. That
was Castle Tioram, Glenuig Inn and Glenfinnan monument and Church. If
you want more details on that e-mail me privately at Elaine@hluk.org.uk.
The movie also filmed at Eilean Donan, and in Glencoe, at Quairang on
Skye, and a few other places that I could show you but not give you a
place name.
Elaine.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 05:33:18 -0700
From: Doctor Fan-Geek <doctor_fangeek@yahoo.com>
Subject: Peter on Medium
In my last digest, someone (I see now as I edit the
previous post, it was Heidi) wrote (among other
things):
> Btw, did anyone see PW on `Medium' last night? If so
> did he actually
> have any lines? I was only half watching the show so
> I'm not sure if
> I missed some of the scenes he was in, or if it was
> just a few scenes.
I'm glad you asked, because I could have sworn that
was him, playing the accused killer, but he appeared
very briefly and had no lines, which may be why he
wasn't one of the three people listed in the credits
that flashed at the end of the episode.
If you weren't watching the whole thing, you could
easily have missed him. The "dream" version of the
trial happened toward the beginning of the episode,
and the camera pans over to the defense table a few
times (and I, just watching Medium because I do, go,
"Is that Peter Wingfield???). Unfortunately, his
character doesn't speak, and then the show moves on to
other things. We see him briefly again, but mostly
from the back (washing blood out/off of something),
and that's about it.
Lisa
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:44:14 -0400
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Peter on Medium
Lisa:
> I'm glad you asked, because I could have sworn that
> was him, playing the accused killer, but he appeared
> very briefly and had no lines, which may be why he
> wasn't one of the three people listed in the credits
> that flashed at the end of the episode.
I sat there saying "Peter? Is that Peter?" Of course I was alone so I
had to answer myself "Yes, I think so ."
Now here's a question and I mean it sincerely and not at all in a
mean-spirited way (Stop laughing over there.)(Sheesh!) One reason I
wasn't sure it was PW was that his face.... OK ... his nose..... looked
very ... thin. I recognize that he's 10 year older than he was when he
was playing Methos and I know actors strive to be as thin as possible
and I know plastic surgery is a way of life these days and I know he
wasn't on camera very long or close-up but...has he had some work done?
The whole (short) time he was on-screen I kept thinking that it was
"Peter but not Peter".
So..anyone seen him up close and person recently - and willing to give
an honest ( i.e. one not tainted by adoration for the man or an
unwillingness to say the Emperor has no clothes if he is, indeed
bare-ass naked) assessment about any touch-up work he may have had done?
Wendy(I don't *care* if he has.)(I only want to know why he was so hard
to recognize for sure.)
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:55:33 -0400
From: kageorge <kageorge1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Peter on Medium
I don't know (or care) whether he's had work done, but I do know the
part called for him being a mysterious bad guy, so looking sharp-edged
was probably a deliberate choice. Lighting and makeup can dramatically
affect that 'look', as well.
MacGeorge
Wendy wrote:
>Lisa:
>
>
>>I'm glad you asked, because I could have sworn that
>>was him, playing the accused killer, but he appeared
>>very briefly and had no lines, which may be why he
>>wasn't one of the three people listed in the credits
>>that flashed at the end of the episode.
>>
>>
>
>I sat there saying "Peter? Is that Peter?" Of course I was alone so I
>had to answer myself "Yes, I think so ."
>
>Now here's a question and I mean it sincerely and not at all in a
>mean-spirited way (Stop laughing over there.)(Sheesh!) One reason I
>wasn't sure it was PW was that his face.... OK ... his nose..... looked
>very ... thin. I recognize that he's 10 year older than he was when he
>was playing Methos and I know actors strive to be as thin as possible
>and I know plastic surgery is a way of life these days and I know he
>wasn't on camera very long or close-up but...has he had some work done?
>The whole (short) time he was on-screen I kept thinking that it was
>"Peter but not Peter".
>
>So..anyone seen him up close and person recently - and willing to give
>an honest ( i.e. one not tainted by adoration for the man or an
>unwillingness to say the Emperor has no clothes if he is, indeed
>bare-ass naked) assessment about any touch-up work he may have had done?
>
>
>Wendy(I don't *care* if he has.)(I only want to know why he was so hard
>to recognize for sure.)
>
>Immortals Inc.
>immortals_incorporated@cox.net
>"Weasels for Eternity"
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:22:43 EDT
From: Bschep@aol.com
Subject: Re: The Source?
<Hope you are booked.>
We are booked, thanks. Our son is working at the Fringe Festival for the
AHSTF (American High School Theater Festival) as a tech support person the first
two weeks of August, so we are using the two previous weeks to travel around
Scotland.
I was a little nervous about finding a place to stay --because I understand
it's high season, and the Fringe Festival also draws a lot of people--- The
farm we are staying at the last five days is supposed to be about an hour away
from Edinburgh, but we were thinking we'd probably want to take some sort of
mass transit to that city, anyway. My husband and son have been to Scotland --
and Edinburgh before, but it's the first time for my daughter and me.
Places we are staying
This is one place:
Whathttp://www.homeleigh-skye.co.uk/
and Tullock Castle, because someone from the AOL Highlander boards said it
was a nice place.
We queried several places in the Wigtown area, and I can't be sure which one
we wound up with, but I think we are staying at The Old Coach House in
Bladnoch. Corehouse Farm in Lanark is the end of our trip.
The "family" "pile of rocks" is Sorbie Castle, so we are going to go look at
that first... and I want to visit Whithorn, the Tourhouskie Stand Stones, then
we are traveling north to Skye to stay three days, east to the castle for a
day and back down agan to the place in Lanark. We plan to spend the remaining 5
days visiting areas around there, including Edinburgh. I'd like to visit
Roselyn Chapel...
What do you think?
Barb
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:24:10 EDT
From: Bschep@aol.com
Subject: Re: The Source? -- sorry
I meant to send that last one to a person.... sorry...
B
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 19:59:28 +0100
From: Jette Goldie <jette@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Source?
From: <Bschep@AOL.COM
> We plan to spend the remaining 5
> days visiting areas around there, including Edinburgh. I'd like to visit
> Roselyn Chapel...
>
>
I'd check up on Roslin - last I heard they were doing major
structural repairs. It was actually closed to the public
around the time they filmed the movie, but they got special
permissions.
Jette Goldie
jette@blueyonder.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:29:09 +0100
From: ElaineN <Elainen@inguz.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Source?
>>I'd check up on Roslin - last I heard they were doing major
structural repairs. It was actually closed to the public
around the time they filmed the movie, but they got special
permissions.<<
Good plan. Last I heard Roslyn was by appointment only. I think they
are trying very hard to get it opened soon and it may even be now.
They don't want to miss out on the movie stuff.
Glad I'd seen it long before.
Elaine.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:57:35 -0700
From: Just Riding in My Taxi <mlozaouk@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Methos
Heidi wonders:
>
>Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:38:14 -0400
>From: Heidi <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
> subject: Re: Methos
>
>
>Btw, did anyone see PW on `Medium' last night? If so did he actually
>have any lines? I was only half watching the show so I'm not sure if
>I missed some of the scenes he was in, or if it was just a few scenes.
>
>-H.
>
>
>
>
Nooooo, you missed nothing ! How strange was that? I waited
breathlessly for his reappearance but it just didn't happen. With any
luck, they're setting him up as a recurring character next season I
was taping something else, so can't go back and examine the scene in
detail. Senior moment - don't remember the context- it was in a dream -
that's all I recall.
Marian in S.F.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:45:03 -0400
From: Heidi <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Peter on Medium
From: Doctor Fan-Geek
I'm glad you asked, because I could have sworn that was him,
playing the accused killer, but he appeared very briefly and had
no lines, which may be why he wasn't one of the three people
listed in the credits that flashed at the end of the episode.
He was listed in the opening credits. That's why I thought I
maybe missed some scenes he was in since I expected him to have
more screen time.
From: Wendy
One reason I wasn't sure it was PW was that his face.... OK ...
his nose..... looked very ... thin. I recognize that he's 10 year
older than he was when he was playing Methos..
I noticed he looked different but the impression I had was that it was
because his hair was so short. I wasn't paying close enough attention
to notice anything more specific, but that stood out. Especially
compared to how he looked in `The Wedding Dress' which I saw part
of when it was rerun a few days ago.
From: Just Riding in My Taxi
I waited breathlessly for his reappearance but it just didn't happen.
With any luck, they're setting him up as a recurring character next
season
Were there any hints his character would be back? While I missed parts
of it, the impression I got was that that storyline was pretty much
a background story, the case was solved and the episode was self
contained rather then an ongoing plot.
From: Jen
>I don't think there was any info in the show to hint at when or
>where he's from. So it could be pretty much anywhere.
There is a great deal! PW's version of Methos's history appears in An
Evening at Joe's, edited by Gillian Horvath.
I was thinking in terms of official answers, ala what was actually
in the episodes. I read parts of `Evening..' several years ago but
don't really remember anything specific about what PW wrote. Did he
suggest an actual origin for Methos?
=}{=
(heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu)
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