HIGHLA-L Digest - 2 May 2005 to 3 May 2005 (#2005-45)
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1. Fanfic suggestions? (6)
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 22:03:11 -0400
From: Sandy Fields <diamonique@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
At 08:21 PM 5/2/2005, Dotiran@AOL.COM wrote:
>This thread is truly worriesome. I find myself in total agreement with BOTH
>Nina and Wendy. What IS this world coming to ? *vbeg*
LOL! I was just thinking the same thing! :-)
And whoever said HL is dead was oh so right. No way could they ever bring
the beauty back. Plus, it doesn't look like they're even trying. They're
more into blowing things up and killing as many people as possible..
whether it makes any sense or not.
-- Sandy
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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 13:30:05 +1000
From: Fiona Palmer <lorien1976@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
Sandy wrote:
>And whoever said HL is dead was oh so right. No way could they ever bring
>the beauty back. Plus, it doesn't look like they're even trying. They're
>more into blowing things up and killing as many people as possible..
>whether it makes any sense or not.
The show (and the series) may be dead, but it's nice to see some life on this list again. I used to be the hugest fan,
watched HL:TS from Season1-4 and knew the eps in depth, even tried my hand at a little fanfic, but life went
topsy-turvy for a while and I missed most of season 5 and all of season 6. I'm just about to catch up on the
episodes I haven't seen (I got the DVDs for Christmas) but knowing what I know about the end of the show, I'm
not all that excited.
If I had a choice, I'd think I'd rewrite the episodes after season 4. I think the writers kinda 'lost the plot' after that....
And I don't want to even talk about the movies. :-P (Why did they write that Duncan got married???? Then again,
compared to Zeist, this is only a minor detail...)
Ugh. I think I'll just stick to watching the first four seasons and pretend the rest of it never happened. Duncan's
still at the dojo/barge, living his life, killing the weekly Kimmie and Richie is still alive, doing stupid things, but in a
cute way... and maybe Tessa would still be alive. And Fitz. And Anne would have died at birth. And Methos would be
gadding about annoying Duncan with his pragmatism. Yeah.
Fiona (delurking temporarily to add her 2 cents)
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 21:10:37 -0700
From: FKMel <sgt_buck_frobisher@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions
Especially doing it on the last episode so that Duncan
couldn't ride in
later and say "Amanda, you git, you didn't need to
kill him!"
Is it me or is that kind of harking back to what may
or may not have happened with Connor in the original
film, and the whole "did he die or didn't he?" debate?
Mel Macwench
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 23:28:46 -0500
From: Ginny <RED57@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
Sandy Fields wrote on 5/2/2005, 9:03 PM:
> And whoever said HL is dead was oh so right. No way could they ever bring
> the beauty back. Plus, it doesn't look like they're even trying. They're
> more into blowing things up and killing as many people as possible..
> whether it makes any sense or not.
It's very odd, but apparently there is still a buck to be made from
Highlander. I keep seeing sword ads whenever I happen to catch a rerun
on whatever cable channel has the show in permanent rotation now. And
Sideshow Collectibles is selling or about to take orders on a couple of
rather disturbing Connor and Duncan (or Duncan and Connor) figurines.
I stuck an ad banner to them on my blog's About page just to see what
would happen in the way of sales, but really more for old time's sake
than anything.
And even odder, is a 20th anniversary leather jacket in the works? Probably.
Topic: I wrote one (1) fanfic story back in 1995 or so. It had no
headboard rattlin', it had a bit of Amanda but not too much, and it did
have a fairly bitchin' Quickening that involved empty electric trolleys
that drove themselves around for a while in the bus yard. And the
bad-guy K'immie was inspired by a really freaky-scary looking sword
dealer that came to Gathering II.
It was written in reaction to about the only other fanfic I ever read,
pretty much in the "well, maybe I'll take a stab at it, but leave out
the ESP and Mary Sue bits."
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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 08:13:50 -0400
From: Sandy Fields <diamonique@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
At 11:30 PM 5/2/2005, Fiona Palmer wrote:
>Ugh. I think I'll just stick to watching the first four seasons and
>pretend the rest of it never happened.
There's some excellent stuff in season 5, so don't skip that one!
-- Sandy
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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:18:13 +0200
From: "Welman, Coert (CNJ)" <coert.welman@sasol.com>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
Good afternoon Heidi
Jumping out of lurkdom to add my penny's worth regarding some fanfic
that might suit your taste. All of these are available from Seventh
Dimension, BTW.
1. Pilar by MFS is quite nice. Conforms to most of your requirements. It
takes place just after Darius' death with Richie and Tessa still alive.
Methos is also there, thus not strictly canon, but a fun read anyhow.
>From what I remember Methos & Duncan share equal "screen time".
2. Rite of Fire by Andie P is quite good. Also conforms to most of your
requirements. M & DM share "screen time".
3. Called to rise by DL Witherspoon is quite a fun read.
4. You can also try Risk by Cathy Butterfield. Slightly longer one.
These are a couple of nice ones that more or less conform to your
requirements. Enjoy!
Regards,
Coert Welman
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:13:15 -0400
From: Heidi <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Fanfic suggestions?
It's been a long time since I've read any fanfic but I figured I'd give
it a try again. So does anyone have any suggestions for `good' fanfic,
either authors or specific stories? I'd be interested in ones where
Duncan is the main character. It's ok if Methos, Tessa, Joe or Richie
are part of the story, as long as they're not the `lead character'. I'm
not interested in ones that Amanda, Charlie or Anne are in, or ones that
are set in the future.
I'm only interested in stories that stick to canon, so Methos is still
the oldest Immortal, there are no vampires or other super- natural
creatures, Duncan was never married (forget Endgame and Ahirman if you
haven't already tried), Duncan, Methos and Richie only date women,
Immortals don't have special abilities or powers we've never seen
before. There are things I've seen in multiple fanfics that I thought
were too much out of character or just didn't fit. (I'm not saying
they're all bad, they're just too far from `Highlander' for me to be
interested in them.) Things like Duncan or the others telling someone
they're Immortal for no reason, Methos taking on a student, or telling
other Immortals who he really is for no reason, Duncan meeting someone
and suddenly being more in love with them then anyone he ever knew,
Duncan, Methos or Richie fighting each other over a woman, ancient
female Immortals who were worshipped as goddesses and used to be
involved with Methos and are now out for revenge, someone figuring out
that Adam is actually Methos for no reason, etc. So given all that are
there any stories some of you suggest? Thanks.
=}{=
(heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu)
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:11:42 -0400
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
Heidi is looking for fanfic:
Lets see, you want HL fanfic without:
Methos, Tessa, Joe or Richie as the main characters
Amanda, Charlie or Anne at all
the future
vampires
other supernatural creatures
married Duncan
slash of any kind
special powers not present in the Series
Methos with a student
Duncan falling in love too fast or too deeply
Duncan telling someone he's Immortal "without reason"
Duncan or Methos or Richie fighting over a woman
old female Immortals
anyone making the Methos/Adam connection -again "for no reason"
Good Luck <snerk>
Wendy (Duncan woke up and had breakfast. He went out to run. He felt
another Immortal. They met and Duncan realized they were old friends.
The old friend turned out to be bad. They fought. Duncan won. He felt
bad afterwards. Duncan went back to bed. Duncan woke up......)
Immortals Inc.
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:04:47 -0400
From: Heidi <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@COX.NET>
Lets see, you want HL fanfic without:
I probably should have qualified some a bit more then I did.
the future
As in more then a few decades from now. I've seen too many stories that
had the Immortals we know running around with Phaser-like weapons
instead of swords, or chasing each other in space ships or turning up in
crossovers with space based sifi shows or on other planets. (and not
just Zeist.)
Methos with a student
That should have been the `current' Adam Pierson version who avoids
fights and perfers to stay in the shadows for the most part. While I
could see Methos having maybe taken students in the past, it really
doesn't seem like something `Adam' would do.
Duncan falling in love too fast or too deeply
Not that so much as the assorted stories I've read where he meets
someone and after spending a few hours or less with them he's more in
love with them then anyone he's ever met. While it wouldn't be a suprise
for Richie, it's a jump that doesn't fit for Duncan.
Duncan telling someone he's Immortal "without reason"
Another case of too many stories where he out of the blue tells someone
he barely knows he's Immortal, or something happens and he gets hurt in
front of someone. But instead of saying `it's not that bad' and leaves
as fast as he can, he'll tell them he's Immortal and how to kill
Immortals. And then when Methos and Richie walk up he'll tell the person
all about them too. I guess in some cases the author needs the new
person to know about Immortals so they can get to the rest of the story,
but to me it seems out of character. Other then the priest with the toy
car collection, have we ever seen Duncan (or the others) tell someone
about Immortals when there was no reason to? (and even the priest wasn't
told anything other then the word.)
old female Immortals
Old female Immortals in stories are ok, it's the ancient ones who were
worshiped as goddesses who are now out to get Methos because he broke up
with them thousands of years ago, and are often Much older then him.
It's just something that seems to turn up in a suprising amount of
stories by different authors. It's just not a storyline I've found
interesting.
Good Luck <snerk>
Yea, I know it's a long shot, but it seemed worth a try. I
know some people like to write HL fanfic and expand on what
was in the series and from comments I've seen alot of it is well
written. So for those of you on the list who write fanfic, I'm not
saying anything against what you've written. It's just not the type of
fanfic I'm looking for. I guess with the Season 6 DVD set now out and no
new Euros or unaired scenes waiting to be released, I've been in the
mood for some `new' Highlander. Anchor Bay did say they were going to
release the Best Of DVD set this year but other then maybe some extra
`Best Buy only' interviews, I doubt it will have any extra footage that
wasn't on the HL Store set.
Btw, for the `Carl Robinson' fans on the list, Bruce A Young was on Cold
Case a week or two ago. I didn't recognize him at first, but you can't
mistake his voice. I don't know if it was a new episode or a rerun
though.
=}{=
(heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu)
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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 08:40:08 EDT
From: Bizarro7@aol.com
Subject: Re: Fanfic suggestions?
And for those who are too new to have seen these, as yet:
Fanzines:
http://ashtonpress.net/fanzines/Highlander.htm
Highlander Fanfic Recommendations:
http://members.aol.com/methosela/writers.htm
Fanfic by Leslie Fish:
http://ashtonpress.net/fanzines/Highlander.htm
Holiday HL Fanfic:
http://xmas.ashtonpress.net/highlander.htm
Leah
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