HIGHLA-L Digest - 25 May 2006 to 26 May 2006 (#2006-90)
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1. HL Comix - Connor Fans! (8)
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 22:16:04 -0700
From: "R. A. Shelton" <darkwindesign@charter.net>
Subject: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
http://www.newsarama.com/dynamitenew/Highlander/HighlanderTeam.html
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Rachel Shelton
darkwindesign@charter.net
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 07:49:46 EDT
From: Dotiran@aol.com
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
In a message dated 5/26/2006 1:21:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
darkwindesign@CHARTER.NET writes:
>>>>http://www.newsarama.com/dynamitenew/Highlander/HighlanderTeam.html
I just *loved* this quote:
>>>>The TV show started out a little weak, but then it got really good and I
liked the last film as a big episode. It needed more Donnie Yen though. The
villain should have saved him for last, and taken over his body so that the
final fight would have been Duncan versus Yen and it would have been a much more
exciting fight than what was filmed-a martial arts master like Duncan versus a
slow white guy.
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:35:26 -0400
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
Rottie says:
> I just *loved* this quote:
>
>>The TV show started out a little weak, but then it got
>> really good
Very true.
>>and I liked the last film as a big episode.
That's the best way to look at "HL:Endgame" - as a big episode by a
writer/director unfamiliar with HL written and shot on a week when all
the regular PTB were on vacation.
>> It needed more Donnie Yen though.
No, it really didn't. Ok, more Donnie Yen might have been better than
more chewing-the-scenery-is-my-life Bruce Payne. But still, the movie
shouldn't have been about staging the coolest fight scene.
>>The villain should have saved him for last, and taken over his body
so
>> that the final fight would have been Duncan versus
>>Yen
Taken over his body? Just how, in the HL Universe, would Kell have taken
over Jin Ke's body? And this is the guy who will be writing the HL
comic?
>> and it would have been a much more exciting fight
>> than what was filmed-a martial arts master
>> like Duncan versus a slow white guy.
Well, I can't disagree that something needed to be done to make the
final showdown between Duncan and Kell more exciting - although all HL
final fights suffer from the fact that everyone knows that the MacLeod
is going to win.
BTW: Does anyone else *besides* this comic book writer see Connor vs.
Kurgan in the same vein as "Spider-Man and Green Goblin, Batman and
Joker, Superman and Luthor." I sure don't. But, hey, I guess comic book
heroes have to have an arch-rival so people will buy the next issue to
find out what happens.
Wendy(Comic book to movie...movie to comic book.)(Two...two...two ways
to annoy the fan base!)
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:24:33 EDT
From: Dotiran@aol.com
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
In a message dated 5/26/2006 11:36:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Immortals_Incorporated@COX.NET writes:
>>>Wendy(Comic book to movie...movie to comic book.)(Two...two...two ways
to annoy the fan base!)
LOL Actually comic books in general annoy me. They are so........fan boy.
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:52:44 +0100
From: Jette Goldie <jette@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
From: <Dotiran@AOL.COM>
> In a message dated 5/26/2006 11:36:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Immortals_Incorporated@COX.NET writes:
>>>>Wendy(Comic book to movie...movie to comic book.)(Two...two...two ways
> to annoy the fan base!)
>
> LOL Actually comic books in general annoy me. They are so........fan boy.
>
You prefer fan girl?
Jette Goldie (47 year old female comic book fan)
jette@blueyonder.co.uk
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:10:49 -0400
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
Me:
>>(Comic book to movie...movie to comic
> book.)(Two...two...two ways to annoy the fan base!)
Rottie:
> > LOL Actually comic books in general annoy me. They are
> so........fan boy.
Jette:
> You prefer fan girl?
> (47 year old female comic book fan)
I'm not generally a comic book reader but I don't hate them. Some of the
art work is lovely. My "problem" with most of the major series is that
they have gone on for so long that the stories are hopelessly convoluted
or else have been re-set repeatedly. People die and are resurrected in
later series. Time is turned back to account for the hero never aging.
Arch-rivals are a big element - and I dislike arch-rivals. The need to
keep the arch-rival alive means the hero often has to do something
stupid and seemingly out-of-character or a series of events must occur
that is so outlandish that the whole thing becomes...well...cartoonish
<EFG>.
I was always glad that HL:TS didn't create an arch-rival for Duncan.
Horton came as close as any and he ended up well and truly dead after 5
episodes. While the Highlander mythos certainly allows for long-term
enemies - since the characters can interact over centuries of time-
keeping both parties alive again relies on some circumstance always
popping up to keep them from beheading each other. That works a few
times but soon loses credibility in my eyes.
Wendy( Debbie?)
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:55:50 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@hawaiiantel.net>
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
Wendy--
> That's the best way to look at "HL:Endgame" - as a big episode by a
> writer/director unfamiliar with HL written and shot on a week when all
> the regular PTB were on vacation.
Also---edited by chimps. The music, however, was lovely.
Nina (never let it be carped that I can't say anything nice about Endgame)
mac.westie@hawaiiantel.net
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:44:01 -0700
From: M M <muzicmakr@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
--- Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net> wrote:
> I was always glad that HL:TS didn't create an
> arch-rival for Duncan.
> Horton came as close as any and he ended up well and
> truly dead after 5
> episodes. While the Highlander mythos certainly
> allows for long-term
> enemies - since the characters can interact over
> centuries of time-
> keeping both parties alive again relies on some
> circumstance always
> popping up to keep them from beheading each other.
> That works a few
> times but soon loses credibility in my eyes.
>
I'm sometimes wondered whether it would have been
cooler if Kronos had gotten away at the end of
Revelations. Not that he had to keep returning over
and over again, but even just to leave that story
unfinished.
(I know we would have missed the swirly quickening,
but if you just love that to pieces, maybe a Silas &
Caspian double-Q could have happened instead.)
I just liked Kronos, thought he died too easily, and
thought it would be cool to have Methos' past hanging
over them indefinitely.
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