From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V1 #79 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Tuesday, December 25 2001 Volume 01 : Number 079 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] OS: Matiko on The District 12/22 ["Jackie M. Young" ] [chakram-refugees] <> ["C] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:23:40 -1000 (HST) From: "Jackie M. Young" Subject: [chakram-refugees] OS: Matiko on The District 12/22 I was watching The District on CBS on Sat. 12/22, and lo and behold, Marie Matiko's (Pao Tsu/Kao-forgot-the-other-one) name popped up on the beginning credits. She played the girlfriend of some Chinese mafia guy who got targeted by the Chinatown gangs. Most of her part was non-speaking, but heavily physical, as she was playing grief/despair/hysteria at her boyfriend's death. She was OK, but not necessarily Emmy material, IMO. ;) Liked her much better on XWP. ;) Just FYI, - --Jackie ****************************************************** * Proud to have the same birthday as Lucy Lawless! * * * * "I think New Zealand geographically comes from * * ... Hawai'i." --Lucy Lawless, Late Show, 4/9/96 * * * * JACKIE YOUNG, JYOUNG@LAVA.NET * * * ****************************************************** ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:42:19 -0800 (PST) From: Meredith Tarr Subject: [chakram-refugees] Happy happy Hi, Just popping in from my family holidays in Arizona to wish everyone a happy holiday season. I hope you all had a blessed Solstice and that your Christmas is fine, if that's what you do on the 25th of December each year. I saw LOTR the other day and I still can't find the right words to describe how wonderful it is. New Zealand really *is* Middle Earth!! It was fun to pick out the names of X:WP alumni as the credits rolled at the end, too. (I was quite amused by just how much Celeborn sounded like Borias. ) Have a good one, all... Meredith (on vacation) meth@smoe.org Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:25:43 -0500 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] <> M E R R Y X M A S Well I finished season 1. I'm enjoying my walk through the Xena tapes. After a hectic weekend it's nice to sit down with the warrior and bard for 90 minutes of mayhem - it's soooooooooo relaxing! The Death Mask introduces us to Xena's brother Toris whom we never see again or even hear about ( he joins Richie Cunnigham's brother Chuck and Fred McMurry's son Steve from My Three Sons in that strange TV limbo of missing siblings). The actor who played Toris wasn't bad he looked like Xena and you could believe he was her brother ( one sidebar when Lucy was interviewed about this episode the only thing she could remember about this episode was that this actor could touch the end of his nose with his tongue - these has way to much time on their hands). The plot centers on Toris trying to get to Cortese the warlord who attacked Amphipolis and made Xena, as Gabrielle so delicately puts it, so aggressive. Here lies the problem the actor who played Cortese was just plain awful. You couldn't believe for a minute this guy could lead an army of chimps in a raid on an banana farm. No wonder teen Xena could defeat this guy. Xena and Gabby had some nice interaction - Gabby catches an arrow, Xena is impressed with her fighting skills and her feistiness, Gabby becomes a toy arrow pin cushion. That's it. Is There A Doctor ... is my favorite Xena episode. Good plot, great casting, and excellent acting . The actor who plays Gen Mirmax is very good as a warrior made brutal by war but still retains his humanity. Danielle Cormack is very good as the pregnant Ephiny - a nice mixture of anger and determination as she faces life without the murdered Phantes. ROC is the epitome of the caring nurse and bard as she tends to the wounded and makes Mirmax rethink his role as warrior. The acting honors go to Lucy Lawless. Throughout the episode Xena is the soul of calm authority. Taking charge of the hospital, talking snese to Mirmax, teaching the young healers, delivering centaurs without breaking a sweat. Then Gabrielle is wounded and we see the facade start to crack - she cares for Gabby with tenderness, but beneath the surface is guilt that her pride has caused her friend to be hurt and when Gabrielle dies Xena crumbles. The stoic warrior becomes almost hysterical with panic and fear - her fight to save Gabrielle is not based on logic or even healing skills - it is an all out assault on death by very frightened woman. This was great acting and great direction - when I first saw this episode it really blew me away because it was such departure from the Xena we have gotten to know over the year. It still affects me. This episode is also I believe a very important canon episode because of Xena's reaction to Gabrielle's death. If you contrast Xena's reaction to Gabrielle's reaction to Xena's death in The Greater Good we see Xena and Gabrielle exhibiting two very basic personality traits that will be developed more and more as the series goes on. When Xena died in TGG Gabrielle grieves but carries on. We this again in The Quest and finally in FIN. Gabrielle changes what she can in life but basically she copes with life. She fights to change what she can but when she finds that she can't change it she accepts it. When she discovers she is pregnant she accepts the child, when she discovers her daughter is evil she accepts the necessity to destroy that evil, etc. Xena on the other hand is always trying to bend life to her will. Gabrielle dies Xena pulls her back from death, Gabrielle falls into the lava pit Xena chases after her through two afterlives, Xena defies gods and visions - she is determined to change fate and destiny. Xena never learns to cope with life - she wants to always beat it into submission. In the very end this is what kills her - when Xena and Gabrielle learn about Haguchi - Gabrielle says it was an accident we will live with it - Xena says I will fix it even it kills me. Xena is always in a daily battle with life, Gabrielle is always trying to find a peaceful way to live life. Xena is chaos and Gabrielle is rationality. Together they always balanced each other when circumstances parts them Xena is fiery emotion ( Sin Trade, Bitter Sweet) and Gabrielle becomes overly analytical trying to find answers for things that have no easy answers( the Debt, Forget Me Not). It was always fascinating to watch these two characters interact - so different but so perfect together. That's it for season 1 on to 2. Hope you are enjoying the walk down memory lane. CherylA ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. 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