From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V9 #2 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 Sunday, January 10 2010 Volume 09 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Amazon High [cr ] [chakram-refugees] Vote for Xena on IMDB [KLOSSNER9@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 22:49:42 +1300 From: cr Subject: [chakram-refugees] Amazon High Lifeblood (or as I have a habit of calling it, Amazon High) is a much-maligned episode, mostly because Xena and Gabs don't have much to do in it. To be honest, I've always found it much more interesting for the clips from Amazon High than for the Xena-Gabs-Yakut bits. The 'Interviews' for Lifeblood comprise Rob Tapert and Michael Hurst talking exclusively about Amazon High (Michael Hurst directed AH and knew nothing of the plot of Lifeblood). Rob reckoned that the best bits of AH had been included in Lifeblood and (having seen a copy of the full AH) I have to agree with him. Whether the proposed AH series (based on the culture clash of modern girl shifted into stone-age times) would have 'had legs' or been more than a one-trick pony I don't know. I can't see it, but then Renpics had a habit of pulling off unlikely-sounding scenarios. As is well known, AH (the proposed series) metamorphosed into Cleopatra 2525, where Cleo travelled the other way in time. That series had plenty of potential, if only because of all the different 'worlds' the writers could access, as opposed to AH which would have been stuck in one. I've always rather liked the title 'Amazon High', which (it seems to me) cleverly combines several different meanings of the 'high'. Most prosaically, it could (metaphorically) relate to 'high school' and Cyane's learning to exist as an Amazon, this is obvious when viewing the original with its modern-day high school setting, but not so obvious from the excerpts in 'Lifeblood'. Then there's the euphoric meaning of 'high' and its related meaning of a 'high point' in a saga. And, looking at the scenery, it's obviously shot in the 'high country'. My preferred meaning is an amalgam of the second and third of those, they seem much more romantic than 'high school'. (Romantic in the old 'adventure' sense, not the modern luurve sense :) Also notable for appearances by Karl Urban (as a much younger less oily character than Maell or Caesar), and by Claudia Black as an Amazon warrior queen, long before she became 'chick-with-gun' on Farscape. Oh, and Dani Cormack as the Amazon Samsara, a violent character without the wisdom of Ephiny. 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: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 11:51:23 EST From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] Vote for Xena on IMDB Internet Movie Database today has a poll on the best drama TV series of the 1990s. At present the two top series by far are X-Files and Buffy, followed by "other" (not on list), ER, Oz, Law and Order and Xena, at 3.7%, closely followed by Ally McBeal, then 7 others. The poll will run all day today. Boeotian ========================================================= 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 V9 #2 ************************************