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[skywaterblue]

So far we've piled through a bunch of old Highlander episodes. I bought a boxed set of 'the best of 15', and while I can't understand why some of these are on here -- like Duende, which has that crazy fight scene at the end but is otherwise a standard and forgettable episode of Highlander. I can think of like, ten or twelve episodes I like better than this one.

Another annoying thing about the set is that the episodes are not in chronological order! Oh well. Tonight after the RNC I'll probably finish off the Four Horsemen episodes. When I'm done, I might go turn it back into Zia and see if I can't use the trade-in money to pick up a boxed season set.

On the other hand, Cooper and I randomly stumbled into 'Timeless', after which Cooper officially joined my 'Peter Wingfield for Eleven' fanclub.

I also recently saw "Claws of Axos". Good story, crazy sets, and whomever was directing it had good compositional skills, which is pretty rare. If only the editor hadn't been convinced that editing it like a music video was the way to go. (On one hand, dude, it wasn't tl;dr, on the other hand, um, give it twenty years and the fine art of a zillion cuts in a scene will be perfected on the show.)

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[kadymae.livejournal.com]

One of the coolest things about Access (the very small Highlander Con) that I attended back in '99 is that they had a panel that was handing ADL the remote control and having him talk at length about Duende.

It is, in many ways, a forgettable episode, but ADL's commentaries were both hilarious (in places) and insightful.

For that "final crazy fight scene" where it poured rain but they had to shoot anyway because they were out of time, they had told the (french) props people to put sand in the paint, to help with the footing.

They forgot.

Which ADL and AP discovered when they stepped on to the platform and damn near did the splits.

Also, there wasn't time to get rubber replicas of the rapiers made, so ADL and AP were going at it, on a surface as slick as ice, with real steel.

Finally they showed an outtake where ADL went down. I shit you not -- he literally dropped out of frame and it looked like somebody tossed a bucket of water up into it.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Cooper and I spoke about you when watching it, because we were all, 'you know who could probably guide us in this? Kady, because she used to go to Highlander cons and stuff.'

That sounds amazing. Yeah, you gotta figure that the fight scene's the only reason it made it in the set, however.