Re the Highlander stuff, just wanted to let you know that I read your mini-essay with interest. A few months ago I began watching the series from the beginning via netflix and am currently in the middle of season 4. Revelations 6:8 was the first ep I ever saw, just catching it in the middle of the night on some basic cable station and I stopped to watch it b/c I'd heard a lot about that Methos fellow.
Hmm, don't really have a point, just saying yay, talk about HL all you want b/c I'm reading. I do have one minor bitch about the DVD extra content - Gaumont spoils their own show in the watcher commentaries, etc. But that means that I can read what you write about S5 because the show's makers have already spoiled me.
I agree with all you said about the Spike/ME vs. Methos/Gaumont worldview. Per the season 3 commentaries, it was Wingfield's very ambiguity in playing Methos that inspired them to bring him back and make him more of a major character. And, unlike ME did with Spike, it sounds like they didn't destroy the very quality that made the character so interesting in the first place.
Hmm. I had no idea I had so much to say. Forgive my babbling and congratulations, again.
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Re the Highlander stuff, just wanted to let you know that I read your mini-essay with interest. A few months ago I began watching the series from the beginning via netflix and am currently in the middle of season 4. Revelations 6:8 was the first ep I ever saw, just catching it in the middle of the night on some basic cable station and I stopped to watch it b/c I'd heard a lot about that Methos fellow.
Hmm, don't really have a point, just saying yay, talk about HL all you want b/c I'm reading. I do have one minor bitch about the DVD extra content - Gaumont spoils their own show in the watcher commentaries, etc. But that means that I can read what you write about S5 because the show's makers have already spoiled me.
I agree with all you said about the Spike/ME vs. Methos/Gaumont worldview. Per the season 3 commentaries, it was Wingfield's very ambiguity in playing Methos that inspired them to bring him back and make him more of a major character. And, unlike ME did with Spike, it sounds like they didn't destroy the very quality that made the character so interesting in the first place.
Hmm. I had no idea I had so much to say. Forgive my babbling and congratulations, again.