HIGHLA-L Digest - 4 Sep 2004 to 5 Sep 2004 (#2004-171)
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Topics of the day:
1. Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006)
2. Season Five dvd Commentary: Prophecy
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 16:02:56 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006)
> > Nina (how does an actor guest-star in a _film_?)
> > mac.westie@verizon.net
John--
> He appears in one or two scenes only. (Later scripts have him as a main
> protaganist)
Then you meant he had a cameo role. Regardless of role size, I would think
AP would prefer to pump gas for real than subject himself to another round
of DPP's brand of movie-making.
Nina (who just realized the Connor monkey is kinda cute--viewed as a
reference to CL's Tarzan film; but a writer making Duncan a debauched
derelict should still be shot, & in someplace tender--but of course DPP send
the script BACK to this moron for another pass....)
mac.westie@verizon.net
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 16:09:58 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Season Five dvd Commentary: Prophecy
me before--
> > As a practical matter, it doesn't work for the show to have specific
> > abilities or even philosophical inclinations passed from Immie to Immie
via
> > Qs. For one thing, most BHd Immies are evil--so, you'd have your hero
> > regularly picking up nasty habits & attitudes just about every episode.
Helva--
> Valid point, although Our Noble Hero can be covered this way: There have
been
> several times when we have seen Duncan doing kata/meditation after a
> Quickening. Given his martial arts focus, it would be a small leap to
assume
> he routinely meditates after a Q to center himself -- to sort out what he
> wants to keep near the surface, and what he wants to bury or completely
> discard.
Interesting, but that's just DM--what of all the other Immies? How do they
cope? Methos would down a few beers.... Amanda would go shopping....
Richie would ride a noisy motorcycle round & round a track until even HE
passed out from boredom.... Fitz would get laid.... Cassie would do her
nails....
Unfortunately, there's nothing to support this or any other "cleansing"
ritual from the show. Surely, it would have come up re: training new
Immies, or in the Dark Q eps. Or, when Richie barged into the loft &
interrupted DM's kata too soon after he'd beheaded a particularly nasty
Immie--w/ the result RR got a foot shorter someplace in season 2 rather than
a few years later.
And, allowing Immies to sort out/keep/discard stuff received from vanquished
foes would still raise all sorts of odd problems re: character development,
at least in the TV series format. One day, DM might just decide he's
always wanted to try opera singing or mountain climbing or talking in a
thick Southern drawl or flaying K'Immies before beheading them, so he
"keeps" that new-found trait from his latest Q & boom--the hero is an
abruptly changed character. It might well work in a cartoon format, though,
so who knows?
Nina
mac.westie@verizon.net
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