From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V5 #67 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, March 14 2005 Volume 05 : Number 067 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Young Blades--female admirer [KLOSSNER9@aol.com] [chakram-refugees] Xena's arrows ["Xena Torres" ] [chakram-refugees] Lucy and Rob ["Xena Torres" ] [chakram-refugees] season six DVDs - my eyes, my eyes! ["Xena Torres" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Xena's arrows When watching FIN, it's quite clear Xena was shot five times (once in each shoulder, in the gut, her right elbow and her leg leg through the side of the knee). However, watch carefully as she's about to have her head taken off and you MAY notice (as I just did for the frist time last night) that Xena has TWO broken arrow shafts in her left shoudler. What the? Now, even stranger - when watching the behind the scenes, you get a lot of great shots of the prep to filming that scene and full, SLOW, non-blurry shots of Lucy. My gods, she's got NINE broken arrow shafts attached to her! There is one straight through her right knee and one through her left elbow and an arrow sticking out of her RIGHT elbow, even though we saw her pull her arm off of that arrow, so there should have been no shaft - course that could just be a YAXI. Well, holy crap - when did all those arrows hit her? Then add up that Xena was shot in the middle of her stomach according to the shot, but she completely snapped off that shaft, so you'd only see the wound with no shaft. However, watch the behind the scenes and Xena's got a shaft sticking out off to the right and lower than the arrow we saw hitting her - which would, again, either by a YAXI OR Xena was shot TEN times. These other arrows almost don't matter as we never see them in the shot anyway, but then one must look at Xena's body hanging to see where injuries were placed there. This scene ALWAYS bothered me because Xena has a FULL arrow sticking THROUGH her left caff. Um....well, A) she wasn't shot there, the arrow went through the side of her knee on her RIGHT leg in the shot we saw, and in the behind the scene footage the second arrow has been shot directly into her left knee B) Neither arrow completely passed through and C) Both arrows were broken off. So, now I'm all lost and confused. Just how many times was she shot and when!? BATTLE ON XENA! Xena Torres: Warrior Writer http://www.geocities.com/bitchofrome "And most importantly, I've learned that the heart can betray, but the sword never lies." - Eve "Heart of Darkness" ========================================================= 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, 13 Mar 2005 10:46:22 -0800 From: "Xena Torres" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Lucy and Rob After watching all the commentaries and behind the scene footage, I just gotta say that Lucy and Rob seem like such a lovely couple! Good on them! I liked Rob directing Lucy and Lucy suddenly commenting that he was so handsome that she wasn't listening. And my fav, during the FIN commentary when Rob jokes that he didn't tell Lucy and Renee to kiss and then Lucy starts yelling, "Kiss her! Kiss her!" and then look at each other and just laugh. ;) And I must all laugh when Lucy was pretending to be grandmother Lucy and muttering in that deep, scratchy voice as though to her grandchildren, "I used to be gorgous, kid." :D Gotta love those bonus features! BATTLE ON XENA! Xena Torres: Warrior Writer http://www.geocities.com/bitchofrome "And most importantly, I've learned that the heart can betray, but the sword never lies." - Eve "Heart of Darkness" ========================================================= 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, 13 Mar 2005 10:56:49 -0800 From: "Xena Torres" Subject: [chakram-refugees] season six DVDs - my eyes, my eyes! WHEW! FINALLY finished my DVD box set of season six and I had some thoughts: 1. This set appears to have the highest quality for picture. However, one must wonder what was done to the film to make it so. All the colours seems to glow and reach out and smack your eyeballs they are so vibrant. I honestly couldn't stare at it for hours on end and had to take some mini eye breaks. Also, this 'high quality' seemed to cause some odd results. In some scenes, the outlines of some people blurred. It was very slight, but you could still notice it. It also caused a massive lighting messup in "The Ring" where Xena faces the camera and there is torchlight on her face. Suddenly her faces lights up like a lightbulb! Ack! Xena is GLOWING WHITE! There were a few other shots in "The Rheingold" and "The Ring" that had this same problem, but that one shot in particular just buried Lucy's face beneath a mask of white light. The other 'issue' was that any season one clips looked HORRIBLY out of place and downright NASTY mixed in with season six shots. Yikes! 2. Less commentary. :( Only four, and pretty much all the same people. Granted, I LOVE Lucy, Rob and Renee commentary (though Lucy was VERY subdued this time - perhaps cause all eps were dramas), I also really enjoyed in earlier sets Hudson's commentaries and Rob with other members of the staff (like Chris and Liz). I would have preferred a little more varity. Also, why did Joel comment all alone? Just an odd choice I felt. (I honestly have not yet listened to his commentary because I run audio commentaries in the background when I am working on the computer and I had no interest in watching a his video commetary). 3. Lots of great features: I really enjoyed the nice LONG season six interview with cast and crew. A lot of great questions were asked and I LOVED that Hudson was included even though she wasn't in the last season. I really loved all the interviews throughout the discs, but I had to wonder who chooses which eps to interview about and which not too - ie: NONE of the FINs had interviews. But there was a lot of great insight both behind the scenes and character wise. The bonus disc nine if great. I honestly got bored with the fan convention - there was nothing interesting being said - ie: nothing we haven't discussed on lists a thousands times. I had hoped there would be con footage - ie actors on the stage, but nope. :P All in all, another great set and I'm so thrilled to wrap up my Xena DVD collection! BATTLE ON XENA! Xena Torres: Warrior Writer http://www.geocities.com/bitchofrome "And most importantly, I've learned that the heart can betray, but the sword never lies." - Eve "Heart of Darkness" ========================================================= 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, 13 Mar 2005 14:17:59 -0500 (EST) From: Sarah Anne Packard Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] season six DVDs - my eyes, my eyes! > The bonus disc nine if great. I honestly got bored with the fan convention - > there was nothing interesting being said - ie: nothing we haven't discussed > on lists a thousands times. I had hoped there would be con footage - ie > actors on the stage, but nope. :P Heh, I loved it, but I'm biased cuz I'm in it, as are some of my friends. ;) (My friend Valerie even made screencaps of us, lol! See http://www.walelia.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=14 , we are such geeks...) One of my complaints about Disc 9 is the bloopers - why a bunch of oooold bloopers, and not the wonderful Season 6 ones that are on one of the Creation fan club kits?? Hmmm... Also, the picture quality on the "Season 1 promo" and "Season 1 interviews" things on that disc (which were pretty much the same thing) was HORRIBLE, but I guess it was old crappy quality footage that they couldn't digitize well or something, I dunno...it wasn't just my copy, I hope?? -Sarah, aka the abbagirl- ========================================================= 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, 13 Mar 2005 15:58:41 -0800 From: "Xena Torres" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] season six DVDs - my eyes, my eyes! >Heh, I loved it, but I'm biased cuz I'm in it, as are some of my friends. >;) (My friend Valerie even made screencaps of us, lol! See >http://www.walelia.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=14 , we are such >geeks...) LOL! Well, sure, that would make it rock I'd guess (though I'd hate to see myself on DVD - ACK!) As I said my issue was that it didn't cover anything new and I would have much preferred actually actor on stage footage. >One of my complaints about Disc 9 is the bloopers - why a bunch of oooold >bloopers, and not the wonderful Season 6 ones that are on one of the >Creation fan club kits?? Hmmm... Yeah but that was the issue with all of the bloopers on all the discs. I expected them to suck this time too. Nothing new. :P And I KNOW there's bloopers we haven't see from the interviews I've done with Claire and Adrienne. Come on, SHARE! dangit! >Also, the picture quality on the "Season 1 promo" and "Season 1 >interviews" things on that disc (which were pretty much the same thing) >was HORRIBLE, but I guess it was old crappy quality footage that they >couldn't digitize >well or something, I dunno...it wasn't just my copy, I hope?? Oh, mine too, mine too. But they are old, recently recovered I suppose. I was more annoyed that the sound on the behind the scenes of FIN was pretty garbbled. Missed chucks of that, or had to rewind and turn up the volume at least. Ah well. Still cool, still cool. But, yeah, those two features were pretty much the same. I thought the that season one would be like all interviews we've been getting, but talking about season one as the season one DVDs had zip for bonus features. BATTLE ON XENA! Xena Torres: Warrior Writer http://www.geocities.com/bitchofrome "And most importantly, I've learned that the heart can betray, but the sword never lies." - Eve "Heart of Darkness" ========================================================= 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, 13 Mar 2005 23:59:18 EST From: IfeRae@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] season six DVDs - my eyes, my eyes! In a message dated 3/13/2005 10:59:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, xenatorres@hotmail.com writes: > 2. Less commentary. :( Only four, and pretty much all the same people. > Granted, I LOVE Lucy, Rob and Renee commentary (though Lucy was VERY subdued > > this time - perhaps cause all eps were dramas), These seemed to have been shot during the time when Sharon said Lucy had a bad cold. She sounds a bit stuffed up. - -- 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, 13 Mar 2005 23:59:19 EST From: IfeRae@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena's arrows In a message dated 3/13/2005 10:47:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, xenatorres@hotmail.com writes: > So, now I'm all lost and confused. Just how many times was she shot and > when!? > LOL! Lots and often. How's that? May CR'll try to give a more precise answer. He likes hurting his brain. - -- 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, 13 Mar 2005 23:59:17 EST From: IfeRae@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] season six DVDs - my eyes, my eyes! In a message dated 3/13/2005 11:17:37 AM Pacific Standard Time, abbagirl@grex.cyberspace.org writes: > One of my complaints about Disc 9 is the bloopers - why a bunch of oooold > bloopers, and not the wonderful Season 6 ones that are on one of the > Creation fan club kits?? Hmmm... > You know, I wondered about that. I've seen those bloopers countless times and can't imagine why they even bothered with the ones they picked. Crappy they didn't show the ones from S6. Guess they're trying to hype the kits now. Oh, well, guess I'll miss 'em, since I stopped getting the kit when they went online with the newsletter. - -- 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: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:17:31 -0500 From: cjlnh@webtv.net (Cheryl LaScola) Subject: [chakram-refugees] Xena / Gab 10th Anniv poster Not sure if anyone on this list bid (& won) one of the 31 autographed posters from Creation, but if anyone bought 2 and would like to help a Xena fan....... I had never used e-bay unitl this poster was offered and sadly I thought the bidding ended Sunday night, not Saturday. I got home from a weekend trip and realized I had lost by $25. I would be happy to match the going e-bay price of $150 if anyone has an extra. If not, congratulations to all the winners. Cheryl ========================================================= 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 V5 #67 *************************************