HIGHLA-L Digest - 22 Dec 2003 to 23 Dec 2003 (#2003-36)
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Topics of the day:
1. I wonder who is still around (3)
2. Sorry for Auto-Reply
3. OT: Sort of............Not to stir up a hornet's nest....
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:24:59 EST
From: EllnT@aol.com
Subject: Re: I wonder who is still around
Dear Shaun,
I just can't believe your amazing good fortune to be able to watch these eps
with virgin eyes. Ahhhh, how I remember the first few times I saw HL. I was
so sure there was magic...otherwise known as continuity. Now, I watch and
am...<sigh> jaded. All the errors stand out. I try to ignore them but there
they are in my face.
Love them while you can...no other series has provided such entertainment.
(Oh well, there was M*A*S*H....and CHEERS, Frazier?, oh, yes! And that Jewish
guy...Er, SEINFELD! But they're all basically comedies. HIGH:ANDER was
SERIOUS...usually.)
Have fun!
I'm late getting back to the list...selling and cleaning out parents' house.
63 yrs. of STUFF!! YIKES!
Ellen
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:47:51 -0800
From: FKMel <sgt_buck_frobisher@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: I wonder who is still around
I can really identify with Shaun....I loved watching
it all for the first time despite SpikeTV's annoying
edits and butcher jobs. I think I'm still new....I
notice some continuity errors, but there aren't a lot
of things that really jump out at me yet. And there's
still one ep I've yet to see, Till Death. Blitz I
finally saw last night, so it's down to one now, plus
whatever Spike cut.
Mel
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EllnT@aol.com wrote:
> Dear Shaun,
>
> I just can't believe your amazing good fortune to be
> able to watch these eps
> with virgin eyes. Ahhhh, how I remember the first
> few times I saw HL. I was
> so sure there was magic...otherwise known as
> continuity. Now, I watch and
> am...<sigh> jaded. All the errors stand out. I try
> to ignore them but there
> they are in my face.
>
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:41:28 EST
From: Bizarro7@aol.com
Subject: Re: I wonder who is still around
I'm also enjoying re-watching the episodes, which seem brand new on DVD after
all these years--particularly with all the added eurominutes and the big
screen! It's an eye-opener and a treat. Now that we've come back from Paris, we
recognize quite a few of the places where the characters are roaming about, and
we hope to watch the Vancouver eps before our trip to Gatecon up there, this
spring, for the same purpose.
Great stuff!
Leah
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:51:18 +0100
From: Arne Sadowski <s@dowski.net>
Subject: Sorry for Auto-Reply
Hello,
some of you get a lot of german email from me... This mail came from my
auto-reply, I set, because of some ebay auctions...
I hope this will never happen again.
Sorry,
Arne
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:41:49 EST
From: Dotiran@aol.com
Subject: OT: Sort of............Not to stir up a hornet's nest....
then again why not ? *g*
Saw this on Dianna Gabaldon's website today and thought it was germaine to
some discussions we've had here in the past/present.
A fan wrote to her and asked:
>>I write fan-fiction, and would really like to do some stories involving
some of your characters, but thought I should write to ask whether you have any
objection to my doing this.
Diana answered:
>>>
Well...um...yes. Actually, I do mind, and I really, really appreciate your
asking first. {smile}I'm aware that many people think fan-fiction is somehow a
compliment to the original author--or is at least innocuous. In fact, from a
legal point of view, it's copyright infringement (and no, it does not matter
whether the infringer is making
money from their stories or not, it's still illegal), and from a personal
point of view...well, I'm afraid the notion of having someone write stories using
my characters makes me rather ill.
(I imagine someone here may bring up a book by Sara Donati, in which Jamie
and Claire are mentioned. A) They're merely mentioned, in a story that one of
Donati's characters is recounting; they don't actually appear as characters in
that book, and B) Sara's a friend of mine, who--many long years ago-- wrote
that bit as a joke and showed it to me, assuring me that she wouldn't use it if I
had any objection. Seeing that in fact Jamie and Claire were not being "used"
as characters--but only mentioned as though they were real historical
characters of the time--I said that was OK. Given all the subsequent hoo-hah about a
2-paragraph snippet, I wouldn't do it again, even for a friend.)
Now, I do have a couple of other friends who have had characters in their
novels reading my novels--Dana Stabenow and Alex Keegan being the authors in
question--which really is very flattering of them. {g} But that's quite a
different thing.
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