From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #25 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 Saturday, January 28 2006 Volume 06 : Number 025 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] Con 06 Juicy Lucy Lawless Part four [cr - orcon Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Con 06 Juicy Lucy Lawless Part four On Thursday 26 January 2006 04:46, S. Wilson wrote: > At 12:10 AM 1/25/2006, cr - orcon wrote: > >KTL wrote: > > > She went on to apologize for her acting choices in season five. She > > > said essentially that she thought she knew what she was doing when she > > > made some suggestions. And now when she looks at what she did, well, I > > > repeat, she apologized for her work while pregnant. That was funny. > > > >Lucy's acting was absolutely fine in Season 5. It was the middle of > >Season 4 > >I'm not so sure about. More to the point, I hate the way that > > Lucy (and Rob Tapert) feel they have anything to apologise for in S5 - > > IMO they've just allowed themselves to believe the noise made by the > > hate-Season-5 brigade. > > > >cr > > Yeah, I don't think Lucy or Rob owe me a thing because I didn't like > episodes x, y, or z. I didn't like parts of Season 5, but some of the > coolest eps of the series were there - Fallen Angel & Chakram, Seeds of > Faith, God Fearing Child, Amphipolis Under Siege, and Motherhood. Similarly, Season 4 is my least favourite season overall, yet Sin Trades are my most favourite eps of all time (and Endgame and Ides are right up there too) XWP may well have been the most uneven series of all time. > But just > because I didn't like one ep as much as another doesn't mean I want or need > them to apologize to me. I admire their creative talents - even through the > bitter end (AFINs - I still love 'em) and I support their work. I've never > been as involved in a show as I was (still am) with Xena and even then, > with all the lumps and bumps, it was still amazing and definitely nothing I > regret watching, and I hope nothing they regret making. Same for me. There are very few episodes (Fishsticks is one) that have nothing in them worth watching. Well, actually, Aphrodite and Discord and their alter egos are worth a look even in that ep... Awful though MWF is (IMO), they tried something and it just didn't work. It probably looked good in the script. It probably wasn't apparent just how awful it was (again, IMO of course) until they'd made it. So while nothing will ever induce me to call it a good ep, I don't think TPTB can be blamed for trying something different.... You Are There probably looked similarly unlikely on the page, but it succeeded brilliantly. I would think that almost everyone associated with the production including the actors was doing the best they could, I doubt if anyone ever set out to do bad work, and for that reason I'd be very reluctant to criticise them in personal terms. I might think someone was miscast, but that's about the worst I'd say of them on an open list. Ages ago it occurred to me, suppose some bit-part actor who I thought was particularly awful, (and I can call to mind just a few :), was all excited about landing her first 'real' part in international TV, and Googled on her name, and found something like "Jane Jones, who played Jemima, must be the ugliest and most incompetent extra in the history of television. I thought at first she was a failed attempt at a monster by KNB FX, and her delivery of lines shows that Xena certainly hadn't invented the teleprompter.... " Great fun to write, but would I really want to do that to someone who has never done me any harm? (There's no Jane Jones in the cast lists, I checked.... :) 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: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:53:41 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Con 06 Juicy Lucy Lawless Part four Hi, cr wrote: > XWP may well have been the most uneven series of all time. Two words for you: Star Trek (any incarnation). :) - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ========================================================= 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 V6 #25 *************************************