From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #217 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 Monday, September 6 2004 Volume 04 : Number 217 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] Testing because it is so quiet on this list [nzjes] Re: [chakram-refugees] Testing because it is so quiet on this list [cr <] [chakram-refugees] OT Kill Bill and other ramblings ["Cheryl Ande" Testing because it is so quiet on this list. Has been way quiet I was expecting my mailbox to fill up while my computer is in the shop logging in to my email account via my ISP's webmail service to check my mail at the moment will be glad one I get my computer back or a replacement I'm also glad I got the extended warranty as its standard 12 moth manafacturer warranty has expired ========================================================= 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: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:31:11 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Testing because it is so quiet on this list On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:35, IfeRae@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 9/4/2004 2:03:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > > d_t_miller@yahoo.com writes: > > Testing because it is so quiet on this list. > > LOL! How about, I finally saw "Kill Bill 1" (yep) because of the > graciousness of a friend. Boy, sure do seem to be lots of parallels with > AFIN and even The Way. Nice to see Zoe Bell and her name in the credits. > Sorry, that's all I've got. Am I about three years' too late? > > -- Ife Hmm, I have yet to see 'Kill Bill'. MUST rent the DVD! I've been busy watching the Season 3 XWP DVD's again. Just watched (or tried to) One Against an Army. Even ignoring the big placename YAXI, I still couldn't get through it. All that subtext, ya know? ;) 'Forgiven', OTOH, I quite liked first time round and still do. Gabs actually had a couple of good lines in it "I know you were evil but you were obnoxious too?" I had, however, forgotten that painfully tedious 'charade' that Gabs had to deliver - not once, but twice. Ouch! (To quote Ares "If he starts to mime, he's a dead man". I know how he feels.) There is, however, one Gabby quote that deserves to be framed in letters of gold and hung round her neck - about Tara: "She didn't listen to you. You let her get away with that?" Waaah! Given Gabs' usual habits, so many sarcastic retorts come to mind it's hard to pick a winner. But Xena even let Gabs get away with that. Best moment, of course, was the enigmatic but telling scene at the end, where Tara and Gabrielle are getting 'forgiven' and Xena just turns and walks off slowly into the sunset. 'King Con' was also better than I remembered it. Rafe's little con of Joxer at the start was very smooth - his mathematical logic in getting Jox to pay $100 for an alleged $50 gold nugget was very neat. The 'bait-and-switch' that they pulled on Leo in the marketplace seemed a little unconvincing - would Leo hand over his valuables to a strange woman (Xena)? - in retrospect, it's a little less surprising when we consider that Xena ostensibly only wanted them to 'demonstrate' how he should hide them, but this wasn't made really apparent at the time. What was really good, plot-wise, was the scene at the end, where the writers pulled several unexpected 'reverses' on us - Eldon doing the doublecross and siding with Titus; Rafe getting killed; Titus uncovering Xena's plan to 'cheat'; Xena managing to win the card game anyway (if she was cheating she was doing it very well indeed, or had they nobbled the dealer?); and then finding Eldon hadn't doublecrossed at all and Rafe's death was a fake. It was a surprise a minute, and all very logical and neatly done. cr ========================================================= 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: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:43:33 -0400 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] OT Kill Bill and other ramblings Speaking of Kill Bill. Claire Stanisfield said at one of the conventions that she tested for a part in a Quentin Tarratino film and I now assume it was Kill Bill. I wonder what part it was? Anyway she said he was a fan of Xena and I think it showed in the film. I now have to see Vol. 2. Now catching up on a few things. Did anyone get a chance to see ROC in her film? Hopefully some one will see it and give her a nice part in a feature or TV show. Anyway I was telling a frind of mine about the film - that she plays a reservist called up but has no one to take care her children. That was an unfortunate choice of topic my friend nearly had appoplexy about how the reservists are being treated and the war in Iraq. I think she actually though Ren was being called up. Now my story about what Xena collectibles are good for. The other night I was at my computer in an upstairs bedroom when I heard a strange sound - a fluttering. Then suddenly a bat swoped out of the air at me. I eeked and chased it out of the room but then I couldn't find it. So I decide I would simply close my bedroom door and read for a while. As I lay there the cat wanted in so I let her in and then she left. I kept reading. Suddenly there was a lot of thumping and into my room flew the bat chased by the cat. My cat satisfied that she had delivered the prey to me lay down in the hall to watch. I eeked again and as the bat circled me I grabed my Gabrielle Amazon sword stood on my bed (dressed oddly enough in a Gabrielle tee and my underwear) swinging at the bat. Eventually the panting bat landed on the wall. I then shut my bedroom door and opened all my windows and reasoned with him. I went to the window and pointed out it with my sword so he would know to fly out. I nudged him my sword to get him going. He would go but just in circles and then land on my Gabrielle staff and look at me. I would nudge him again and he circle and then land and just stare at me. After a half hour of this I no longer eeked, I now just calmly swore at it. It was approaching midnight and I was sick and tired of entertaining my cat. I went downstairs and got a mop and armed with that and the sword I attacked. After a firce battle, I knocked him down pinning him with the mop and sword. I used a huge pair tongs and threw him out the window. In the morning I found the mop in the yard but no bat. I guess he survived to fly another day. I however wonder if my neighbors ever wonder why I has hopping up and down on my bed with a sword or why my arm and sword kept jutting out of my bed room window. 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. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:30:26 -0500 From: "Linda Woolf, Ph.D." Subject: [chakram-refugees] Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors Hi Y'all, Apparently there is a relatively new (2003) edited book out entitled, Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. Of course, someone may have already mentioned it or it has been discussed and my memory fails me. Anyway, I haven't read the book but the review crossed my email. Check it out at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=238391094059727 Best, Linda ========================================================= 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: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:48:42 EDT From: IfeRae@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Testing because it is so quiet on this list In a message dated 9/5/2004 1:28:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time, cr@orcon.net.nz writes: > 'Forgiven', OTOH, I quite liked first time round and still do. Gabs > actually had a couple of good lines in it "I know you were evil but you > were > obnoxious too?" > Yes, I liked this one too. In addition to your snipped comments, I liked that we got a little more back story on Xena -- that she hung around with some frisky "young bucks" and may have indeed been a bit arrogantly obnoxious. I also liked the turnabout, with Xena playing the forgiving Gabs, and Gabs wanting to administer "tough love." And of course we have Tara disrupting "domestic" arrangements from Gabs' standpoint and forcing Xena to play big sis. All in all, a nice combo of humor and poignancy. The ep is also the source of my all-time favorite Xena quote: "You are what you do. You can recreate yourself every minute of every day." Or something like that. - -- Ife ========================================================= 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: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:48:40 EDT From: IfeRae@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] OT Kill Bill and other ramblings In a message dated 9/5/2004 6:38:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, candex@verizon.net writes: > I however wonder if my neighbors ever wonder why I has hopping up and > down on my bed with a sword or why my arm and sword kept jutting out of my > bed room window. > As interesting as the Gabby memorabilia story was, I found even more interesting the part about the bat. Is it common for bats to fly into your home? I'm thinking no, since you "eeked" a couple times. Whatever, I give you many WP points (or Gabs points, if you prefer) for battling the bat in front of the cat. I'm sorry, but the cat reminds me of early Gabs. "Look, Xena! See what dirty ol' villain I drug in for ya? Go get 'im!" - -- Ife ========================================================= 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. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #217 **************************************