From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #100 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 Wednesday, May 24 2006 Volume 06 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] OT: Goodbye to CHARMED [richan@aol.com] [chakram-refugees] OT: Goodbye Alias ["Xena Torres" > I thought Paige complained the least of all the sisters including Prue of how fighting demons was taking over their lives, Piper especially. Yikes! It was really getting on my nerves. It reminded me of Peter Parker's complaining of how being Spiderman was taking over his life. On the other hand did Xena and Gabrielle ever complain of their lives seemed to run by events rather than goals? You betcha. Just not every episode like Charmed seemed to. Still, even Moses complained of his life being taken over by God. <> I thought Buffy ended better than both Charmed and Xena. All slayers coming into their full potential at once. Throwing off the shackles of the Watchers, ancient and modern. Willow becoming scarier than Buffy. Women with bite to them. Oh yah! Wait--that'd be the vampires. Well, you know what I mean. You just 'gotta' have Faith! Richan ========================================================= 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: Tue, 23 May 2006 02:47:18 -0500 From: "Xena Torres" Subject: [chakram-refugees] OT: Goodbye Alias Limited spoilers for the final season of "Alias", but there are spoilers, so, best not to read until you watch: S P O I L E R S P A C E I have never been a fan of series that, when in their final year and final episodes, decide that its some sort of contest to see how many leading characters can be killed off. The final season of Alias killed no less that six main and reoccurring characters in its last four episodes. And of those six, three met their demise in the finale. On the bright side, it worked for Alias, even though my favourite character was one who met their end. Add to that, the series brought back nearly every familiar face for the last two episodes, so, even if some of them had to die, at least they were all dealt with. Sadly, most of the deaths of the characters were fairly lame. I was a bit ticked that a newer character got one of the best death scenes when the long time characters had quick deaths that barely registered. Thankfully, the most important character who died, had the ultimate facedown before that moment happened, and truly got to save the world with their sacrifice. Alias has suffered through many hard times. While Alias was the baby of ABC in its first season, its ratings began to suffer as it came into its second year (which still surprises me to no end as season two was the best season of the series). The ratings continued to stay low in season three, though ABC refused to give up on the series. Sadly, Alias was doomed with the creation of Lost when the series creator J.J. Abrams split his focus and put far too much on his new series, leaving Alias to flap in the wind. Alias was only hurt further when leading actress, Jennifer Garner, got pregnant, which caused kick ass Sydney to be placed behind a desk. Frankly, the series was a little painful to watch for its last two seasons. Thankfully, though J.J. Abrams was also remarkably absent for the finale of Alias (he neither wrote nor directed either episode of the two parter), Alias did indeed go out with a bang. Several of them. With the inspired choice to open the episode in Sydney, Australia, the finale combined itself with the pilot, and nearly the entire original cast and reoccurring guests were there for the end. Despite the poor fourth and fifth seasons, the Alias finale is certainly worth coming back to the series, if youd left, to watch the final two hours. Among one of the best series finales, the Alias finale captured all the best moments that made the pilot episode so great. Not a wasted moment. Every bang, every death, every reveal  I felt like I was enjoying the pilot all over again. A wonderful finale in every sense. Theres only one Sydney Bristow and we will miss her. Julie XT Ruffell Screenplay writer of AWAKENINGS AWAKENINGS OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.roachsrealm.com/awakenings XENA TORRES SITE: http://www.bitchofrome.com "Save me from the dreaded hopping bracelet." - Croft AWAKENINGS ========================================================= 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: Tue, 23 May 2006 02:36:44 -0500 From: "Xena Torres" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] OT: Goodbye to CHARMED > I thought Buffy ended better than both Charmed and Xena. All > slayers coming into their full potential at once. Throwing off the > shackles of the Watchers, ancient and modern. Willow becoming > scarier than Buffy. Women with bite to them. Oh yah! Wait--that'd > be the vampires. Well, you know what I mean. You just 'gotta' have > Faith! Wow. Interesting. I thought the "Buffy" finale was among the worst I've seen. As one who only watched the series for Faith and Dawn, Faith was HORRIBLY BUTCHERED for season seven of "Buffy" (which is surprising after how AWESOME her "Angel" eps prior were) and Dawn? Dawn who? Either than her delightful, "Buttmunch" line - was she even IN the seventh season? I got the entire series of "Buffy" of DVD for X-Mas, I finally sat down and watched the whole thing. Gotta say, I found it overrated. Frankly - it pissed me off with all the wasted potential. It could have been SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much cooler. I LOVED season five of the series - I thought that whole story with Dawn being the key just the best part of the whole series - I loved her relationship with Buffy - and then that just went NO WHERE. I was SO expecting Buffy 'not chosing Dawn' (as Joyce warned little sis), to tap into the ultimate power that is the key. Nope. Grrr. And Anya deserved so much more than that. :( Anya made me laugh. One of the few other characters I enjoyed. Tara was another. Okay, and I liked Willow in the later seasons (bored the crap out of me in the early years). Buffy herself? Only liked her with Dawn. :D For me, XENA will always be the greatest finale. You're brilliant, Rob. You're brilliant! :) Julie XT Ruffell Screenplay writer of AWAKENINGS AWAKENINGS OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.roachsrealm.com/awakenings XENA TORRES SITE: http://www.bitchofrome.com "Save me from the dreaded hopping bracelet." - Croft AWAKENINGS ========================================================= 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: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:12:57 EDT From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] Modern Amazons I just bought a new book, The Modern Amazons : Warrior Women on Screen, by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini, Limelight, 2006, large softcover, 500 p., heavily illustrated with b&w illustrations only, for $24.95. The front and back covers have images of 14 women, with Xena on the front cover. These are the only color illustrations. The series gets 10 pages, p. 50-59, of which more than half is illustrations. The text is decent, not great, not terrible. I think that only Kill Bill gets more space than Xena. The book includes -- Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.; Sheena (1950s TV show); miscellaneous minor Amazon films (mostly exploitation); Joan of Arc films, including Milla Jovovich's The Messenger; the Conan women; Eowyn in Lord of the Rings; Keira Knightley in King Arthur; Lena Headey in The Brothers Grimm; various SF women; Buffy; Milla Jovovich's Resident Evil films; Kate Bekinsale's Underworld films and Van Helsing; Witchblade; Charmed; League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Jessica Biel in Blade: Trinity; Wonder Woman; Catwoman; Batgirl; Elektra; X-Men women; Lara Croft; Aeon Flux; Sin City; Tank girl; Star Trek women; Galactica; Serenity; Fifth Element (Jovovich again); Blade Runner; Alien and Aliens; Dark Angel; Matrix; Star Wars; Terminator series; Pam Grier; various noir; Attack of the 50 Foot Woman; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and other Chinese martial arts films; Million Dollar Baby; G.I. Jane; Powerpuff Girls; Hermione in Harry Potter; Mulan; Sailor Moon; The Avengers; Charlie's Angel (series and films); Alias; Femme Nikita (film and series); Silence of the Lamb; Keira Knightley in Domino; Raquel Welch in Hannie Caulder; Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead; Ilsa and other exploitation films. Conspicuous by their absence are Anne Francis in Honey West, and Louise Jameson as Leela in Dr. Who. Booetian ========================================================= 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 #100 **************************************