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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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