From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V8 #60 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 Thursday, November 26 2009 Volume 08 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Purity and Back in the Bottle [cr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:38:56 +1300 From: cr Subject: [chakram-refugees] Purity and Back in the Bottle If Them Bones was Sin Trades revisited, then Purity / Back in the Bottle were obviously The Debts revisited. And, like Them Bones, they suffered from the impossibility of matching up to the original. I did like Purity (many fans seemed not to, there was this weird 'hate-Season-5' movement going on at the time). It had some of the same gorgeous colours of The Debts - not all, but some. The explosion in the arms dump at the end was probably the most impressive Renpics ever did (where did they get the violet flames from?), and Xena and K'ao Hsin walking through the flames is one of the images I always remember. Top marks to Marie Matiko, by the way, for playing the two sisters sufficiently different that I never realised it was the same actor till I saw the credits. This time round, listening to the plot more carefully, I can see how it derives quite accurately and consistently from The Debts. Back in the Bottle somehow isn't quite so good, it seems more 'choppy' in its storytelling. I would have expected something better from an episode written by Steve Sears and Rob Tapert. I would have liked to see more of K'ao Hsin (the good twin), but I suppose she suffered from the same problem as Season 4 Gabs - what do you do with a pacifist in an action show - just park them out of the way. I thought Xena's big blue coat/dress was one of the most gorgeous costumes she got to wear in the series. And memo to producers - a trail of gunpowder doesn't go out when you remove the air, it has its own oxidising agent. Though the breeze caused in the process might well blow the trail away, but that's not what we saw. 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. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V8 #60 *************************************