HIGHLA-L Digest - 7 Mar 2001 to 8 Mar 2001 (#2001-91)
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Topics of the day:
1. @thugs on film/HL4
2. Endgame DVD in stores? (5)
3. EG SPOILER: One for Wendy... (2)
4. AP article promoted by about.com
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 04:33:27 -0500
From: Aimer <aimer@warewolf.net>
Subject: @thugs on film/HL4
Go to shockwave.com, click on shows, go to Thugs on Film and they review
Highlander 4. It's not a great review, but the show is hilarious. -Aimer
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:48:24 -0700
From: Barbara Osgood Designs <hairbows@northerntel.net>
Subject: Endgame DVD in stores?
Just wondering if anyone has found it for sale anywhere in stores? I
checked places like Target, Walmart, Costco, etc, and not only did I not
see it, I did not even find a label for it on the shelves. Guess I'll be
ordering it.
Barbara
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:21:02 -0600
From: LadyKaren <angelmyst@ntsource.com>
Subject: Re: Endgame DVD in stores?
At 06:48 AM 3/8/01 -0700, Barbara wrote:
>Just wondering if anyone has found it for sale anywhere in stores? I
>checked places like Target, Walmart, Costco, etc, and not only did I not
>see it, I did not even find a label for it on the shelves. Guess I'll be
>ordering it.
>
>Barbara
Hey I found it for sale in Best Buy so you might try checking there :)
Kat
Last night you spoke of a dream
Where forests stretched to the east
And each bird sang it's song
A unicorn joined in a feast
---Courtyard Lullaby (Loreena McKennitt)
LadyKaren aka AngelMyst
anglmyst@primenet.com || http://www.primenet.com/~anglmyst
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:48:29 EST
From: Dotiran@aol.com
Subject: Re: Endgame DVD in stores?
In a message dated 3/8/01 8:48:27 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
hairbows@northerntel.net writes:
<< Just wondering if anyone has found it for sale anywhere in stores?
Not only is it for sale at our local Blockbusters video store, but it is
"featured" at their checkout counter. I thanked the owner for that.
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:49:17 -0500
From: LC Krakowka <liser@lightlink.com>
Subject: Re: EG SPOILER: One for Wendy...
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Claire:
> >Perhaps they didn't particularly care where it was. Perhaps it
>>got moved periodically, while they were drugged.
Wendy:
>Again... *why* were they drugged? Everyone up until Duncan was a
>*volunteer*..they could have just been held in "cells" ..with TV and
>books and open doors. Brother Paul's monastery was as safe as anyone
>could want ..they wouldn't have to fight and no one could reach them.
Except, of course, Kalas.
Technicality. :-)
> What was it about Sanctuary that attracted them? I'm just not
>seeing it. They volunteered to be shackled on back-boards for
>decades with IV drips and blue gunk up their nose? Why?
I think that there is a place you can get to mentally where you don't
want to DIE, per se, but you don't want to LIVE, either. I know that
I have days when 500 year long "naps" sound like a good idea. I, of
course, do not have the luxury of this. Someone who is immortal does.
I can relate to the concept of wanting to be out of it for awhile,
but not permanently. I don't know that I, personally, would ever
choose to be drugged into oblivion for any stretch of time, but I can
see where others might. Especially others who have been subjected to
the throes of life for centuries on end.
I do agree, though, that a comfy place with tv and books and bingo
would probably make more sense. Of course, then you have to worry
about feeding these immortals for eternity. And keeping them
entertained. And from killing one another. And from leaving.
Maybe the Watchers agreed to take on the task of The Santucary, but
their stipulation was that it has to be their way--with the kids
asleep the whole time they were baby sitting.
Liser
(you'd think, though, that they would have at least brought in a
barber every now and then)(some watcher's kid had to be in beauty
school...)(and why was it that only male immortals were in the
Santuary?)(what does that say about the psyche of the average female
immie?)
--
Lisa Krakowka ** liser@lightlink.com
Reason #9 Why Glencoe is Better than Shakespeare:
Shakespeare's plays frequently featured boys dressed up as girls.
No member of Glen Coe Mountain Rescue Team has been known
to act in such a fashion.
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:54:22 EST
From: List Kathy Avery <Lynxf19@aol.com>
Subject: Re: AP article promoted by about.com
<The AP article that was mentioned here last week is promoted today rather aptly as the Hot Pick/item #1 in About.com's entertainment e-letter, as follows
------------------------ HOT PIC -------------------
INTERVIEW WITH THE HIGHLANDER
Adrian Paul, he of the matinee jawbone and "Highlander" fame, met this week with your About Guide to Action-Adventure Fred Topel. Somehow, Nazi
Vampires work their way into the conversation. Check it out.
http://actionadventure.about.com/library/weekly/2001/aa030201a.htm?PM=n120305a
Nina (yeah, the jawbone's nice, too)>
He looked so good in that picture that I had to print and put it in my billfold. <g>
Kathy
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:17:36 EST
From: Highlandmg@aol.com
Subject: Re: Endgame DVD in stores?
Hi
Most have Been sold old. Try Best buy if the others have been sold old.
Mary
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:39:33 -0600
From: Bridget Mintz Testa <btesta@hypercon.com>
Subject: Re: EG SPOILER: One for Wendy...
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>Wendy:
>> What was it about Sanctuary that attracted them? I'm just not
>>seeing it. They volunteered to be shackled on back-boards for
>>decades with IV drips and blue gunk up their nose? Why?
Liser:
>
>I think that there is a place you can get to mentally where you don't
>want to DIE, per se, but you don't want to LIVE, either. I know that
>I have days when 500 year long "naps" sound like a good idea. I, of
>course, do not have the luxury of this. Someone who is immortal does.
None of this makes sense, especially for Connor, who said something
about not wanting to remember all the bad things that had happened to
him. So why agree to be sent into a drugged state where he would
have nothing to do but remember?
Liser:
>I do agree, though, that a comfy place with tv and books and bingo
>would probably make more sense. Of course, then you have to worry
>about feeding these immortals for eternity. And keeping them
>entertained. And from killing one another. And from leaving.
Well, as long as we're talking about logistics, they *still* had to
feed those Immortals somehow ... and take care of all their bodily
wastes. Now how could they do that with those guys all drugged up?
I don't think even Watchers would agree to centuries of
bedpan-and-sh*t-cleanup duty without at least a few twinges of
disgust--they agreed to watch Immortals, not be their nurses. And
would Immortals--an arrogant lot--agree to be hooked up to tubes and
wear diapers and be subjected to some pretty nasty conditions for
centuries? The whole thing is completely unreasonable. Imagine the
smell in that room. And the flies.
And suppose some kind of chemical or biological war breaks out and
all those Watchers *die* while those Immortals are still plugged in,
tuned out, and hooked up? Then what happens to them?
Liser:
>Maybe the Watchers agreed to take on the task of The Santucary, but
>their stipulation was that it has to be their way--with the kids
>asleep the whole time they were baby sitting.
And the Watchers doing diaper-duty for centuries. Yuck. I bet even
Immortals get bed-sores, even if said sores don't last very long.
Bed-sores are horrible.
>Liser:
>(you'd think, though, that they would have at least brought in a
>barber every now and then)(some watcher's kid had to be in beauty
>school...)(and why was it that only male immortals were in the
>Santuary?)(what does that say about the psyche of the average female
>immie?)
That female Immortals would rather stay clean, feed themselves, and
make it to a toilet on a regular basis? That female Immortals don't
want to have to wear diapers *and* sanitary napkins (let's not even
get into the logistical problems of tampons) as strapped on by other
people? That female Immortals don't care to sit in their own bodily
wastes until some bored Watcher decides to clean them up? That
female Watchers have better things to do than get themselves drugged
and left helpless, trusting completely to mortals to look after them?
That female Immortals don't survive in enough numbers for any of them
to be represented in Sanctuary?
Bridget
--
Bridget Mintz Testa
btesta@hypercon.com
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:40:18 -0700
From: Barbara Osgood Designs <hairbows@northerntel.net>
Subject: Re: Endgame DVD in stores?
At 03/08/2001 08:21 AM -0600, you wrote:
>Hey I found it for sale in Best Buy so you might try checking there :)
I don't know if there is even a Best Buy in the entire state of Montana,
but I know for sure there isn't one in Great Falls. However, we are going
down again next week, so I'll check at Blockbuster.
Thanks ladies!
Barbara
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