Welcome to the ROGboard! You can post just about anything here as long as it fits into the very few rules we have. You can talk Methos {a definate plus}, Highlander, Sports, you name it! I, as the board mistress, ask that you link to any pictures you post here rather then putting them directly into the message. Enjoy! And welcome home!
I was wondering about the "Merlin" pictures you won on the HLDU auction last month or the month before. Did you win one or both of them?
I'm asking because someone was wondering if you would allow them to use them on a tee. If you would, do you have a scanner you could scan them up for me at a semi large size? (at about 25% normal size should do it or maybe 50%)
In return, I'd gladly do up tees for you at my cost with no cost to you whatsoever, of your pictures from "Merlin".(one or two whichever you prefer)
let me know if it's do-able and if you might be interested in a trade, ok? Email me and we can discuss this further if you are willing to do this.
Thanks, sharonnelle!
Posted on Mar 31, 2000, 6:58 PM from IP address 207.13.17.141
they finished filming, I don't know when it will open in theaters though. PW will be in it, but according to a script that was available on the net for a day or so it will be only one short scene :-((((((((((
Nice to see you here again!!!
Hmpf
Posted on Mar 30, 2000, 6:38 AM from IP address 195.252.199.145
...I read the script that was linked on Rysher. And since then, I've heard, by reading the reports of people that saw the movie trailer at G5, of scenes with Methos in them that I don't remeber being in the script, Of course, there's a very good chance that that's just my memory on the blink again, but I'm still holding out hope for more of a PW presence in the movie.
~CG
Posted on Mar 30, 2000, 8:42 PM from IP address 216.94.236.48
What Happened to the Rysher Forum? I can't get through to the HL Forum to get the latest info. on HLIV or the Gathering Con in Denver. Can anyone e-mail me and point me to the right sites?
Thanks, and remember there's no justice, only mercy!
Posted on Mar 28, 2000, 6:40 PM from IP address 152.163.201.56
I was high bidder for one of the items in the PWFC auction, mailed my payment and never received the item.
The auction ended January 15, They finally sent confirmation a couple of weeks after that, Then I sent my payment immediately afterwards around the beginning of Feb.
Now here it is nearly April, No T-shirt, no reply to my email, nothing!
Did anyone else bid and never receive their stuff?
DJ
Posted on Mar 27, 2000, 9:56 PM from IP address 205.188.192.158
so you can't directly show it by using the address only. Like this <img src="address">
You have to write as if in a sentence for a link: <a href=
then add: "address of the picture you want to link to">title</a>
It is best just to write it as a link like above.
<a href="address">title</a> write it just like this and it should work fine!
Posted on Mar 29, 2000, 4:11 PM from IP address 207.13.27.158
I'm looking for all the Methos highlander episodes. If anyone has them and could copy them for me, can you e-mail me and we can work something out?
I am really looking for euro minutes as well....
Also, I am looking for blooper reels from any season- can I purchase them seperatly from Rysher productions, or do they only come with the purchase of a full season?
Thank you for your time and answers...
Posted on Mar 19, 2000, 2:07 PM from IP address 207.198.234.103
Hi Ehorizon, What an interesting name. g
Some of the episodes I have are not Euro minutes.
I'm sure you can buy the blooper reels seperatly.
I think that some of the episodes that feature Methos are the special boxed sets.
You can request a Highlander merchandice catalogue by phone or on-line.
I've had luck doing this in the past-- The Teacher (A small tale)
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Methos looked up into the cold blue eyes and thought he saw something familiar, but that thought quickly passed, and was replaced by a sensation. That sensation was horror. He was losing. He wasn't losing badly, but he was losing all the same, and the tricks were ones he had seen in battle before--simply never played out in these combinations before.
Just before he closed his eyes to receive the killing blow without betraying his fear, he heard the strangest sound.
Laughter.
"Yes...no one would have lasted that long but you--she was right. Methos. You still do have too relaxed a style--all arms. Hah--she was never wrong."
Methos opened his eyes to get a better look at the man. "Get it over with," he hissed. "Just be sure to cut clean."
The man leaned closer. Methos wondered what it was about the man--the scar? The way he had fought like a man on a mission? The fact that he had known his name, and had seemed to be searching for him? There was something he recognized. He swallowed hard in spite of himself.
"No, I don't want to *get it over with*," he man replied. "I have no intention of killing you--I've heard too much about you to want that. I think we can be friends--you and I."
"You've a very interesting way of making friends..." Methos began, but then stopped. Friends with this creature? Well, it did beat the alternative. At this point, he was glad to have a choice. "But who is--I mean--you've obviously heard about me from someone..."
"No one I'd care to name. She made it very clear to me that she never wanted her name mentioned--before any of you. But she said you'd know. I'm...Kronos," he said, pausing before giving his name as if it were not his name at all.
Kronos. Methos had heard that name some time ago, in a place long distant from here--but this man did not speak the language of the people who held to that god. But there was one woman who also knew of those people, and who could have given him that name. And of course, she would never have wanted her own name to be mentioned lightly.
"I know of whom you speak," Methos responded, softly. "That makes you a brother."
Kronos smiled, pleased that he was understood. It seemed like many years he had gone without that--someone who understood. He knew he had only beaten the older man because of the tricks she had taught him--but he could stand to learn from this man's experience--and of course, he needed him.
He wanted to know where the others could be found.
Posted on Mar 18, 2000, 6:32 PM from IP address 152.172.93.8
"And so you know of me--and from her--she who will not bear speaking of--what do you want with me?" Methos asked. He could only imagine--he remembered her well. He knew what she would want--he thought. He had been her favorite--knew her the best. There was not one of the men who ever knew her who came close to knowing all she could teach--but then, she had loved him.
"She--I won't talk of her. She said I should find you--and the others. That was all. But I know what we could be."
Methos' mind pondered that. *The others*. He knew what that could mean. Her last family. And what did that make this talented stranger?
He could not be--the boy.
"Have we ever met?" Methos asked, as if innocent of the answer. Kronos might well have seen him before--it was not out of the question.
"I think we may have." Kronos could remember. He was the one who had carried her away when she had died in Uruk. He had been the one--one of the many odd visitors to her temple chamber--he could remember. And he knew--he could easily see--he had been her right arm. She had trusted Methos--there could be no other reason why she rode with him for those twenty years. Looking at him, he could remember what he once thought, when he first realized what they were. Himself. Anath-Sin. Methos. "Uruk. Nippur. Do not try to draw the story out of me. You know what I was."
Methos pulled up his steed. He took a long look at the man who rode ahead, now. He couldn't be--he was. The man's horse was bred from mountain stock--wild. He had trained it himself; there could be no other way for it to be trained to the bridle. His attire was the armor of an Easterner. His tongue--the tongue in which he chose to converse--was the Sumerian of an educated man--he could be none other.
The foundling she had made a king. The fond hope she wagered her life upon. Her death--in the flesh. He may not have even known he was the cause of her death--but Methos knew.
He hated him, even as he pitied him.
"I know--but I would know of her--she is no more?"
"She died. Left dead by the Euphrates, where she had first laid eyes on me. In my beginning...I buried her there, leaving a stone in her honor. She would have been burned--I knew her! I also knew the fatherless one ho killed her, but she laid her curse on him. You know of her--the words?"
"She would speak the words and the thing would come to pass," Methos responded, wryly. He knew that to be her way. It was a thing he never could question. He had seen it himself--too often to wonder.
Kronos nodded. "She said the revenge would be hers--and I believed her. I still do. She said we were her revenge because we would endure--I believe that, too. She said I should find you, because you would lead me to the others...and then, we would be what she dreamed of."
Methos' could not fathom what the m,an meant by these things. *what she dreamed of*. He knew the dreams of Anath-Sin--they were of war. Always of war. She knew no other life.
"Of what did she dream?"
"Her family--together. Riding. A legend that made other legends pale. Not her name--but ours. So long as one of us could carry the tale, she said, she lived. I mean to hold to that. I've lost everything--for her. Because of her. But I'll carry her name--damn her!"
His eyes were the eyes of a man who had seen visions too terrible to speak of. Methos saw those eyes, and did not imagine himself in the presence of a younger man--but a man who had ridden alongside Anath-Sin.
That were maturity enough for anyone.
Posted on Mar 18, 2000, 9:45 PM from IP address 171.208.229.205
But uh...that's part of the "before"--this is the "after" The Teacher III
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Methos watched the man as he dismounted, naturally, easily. He knew the way of riding as not the way of the people of Akkad, but this man had picked it up easily enough. He watched him do everything, fascinated. He was her last student. The one she trained before meeting her death. The one she built her hopes on not ruining, as she feared she had ruined the others (oh, that did hurt, when she made it known that the killing had begun to disgust her--and what were they supposed to do? Take up the loom and make tapestries?) He seemed ill at ease before Methos, and he would have taken it for disdain, knowing, after all that the man had been a king, and then it occurred to him--
He was unnerved before Methos' presence. Methos wondered what Anath-Sin must have told "Kronos" about him before sending him out. What could she have told him, that would have left him nearly speechless?
"Come, brother, into the temple. You should eat. The journey before we find Silas will be a long one," Methos found himself saying, naturally. Strange to find the young one so interesting that he cared. "Consider my home to be yours."
The younger man looked up with eyes that spoke of thanks and surprise at once. But then, the look hardened--the man was clever, and make no doubt.
"She would have been surprised, I think--to find you dwelling on holy ground. How?"
Methos looked at him, dumb-founded. But it was true. She would have been amazed, because it was the one thing he had needled her about, endlessly. He had bid her leave the temple-steps more than a dozen times, and each time she had said, "no." He could not stir her forth--only love of the child sent her to Uruk, and beyond her temple, her women. She even spoke with disdain once she again rode--disdain for Jude of Larsa, whom she slew--saying he had hid on holy ground.
But at the same time, this could not be any true surprise. It wouldn't have been to her, were it she he faced, and not this man. He had grown tired. After sending Caspian and Silas away--he had learned the bitter truth--
Once alone, he was a moving target. His name was known. He could not afford to become sloppy, but he could not afford to go without cover. And so--Kemet. And so, the Temple of Ptah--where Anath-Sin once sat at the feet of Imhotep. And here, learning the arts of magic, reading the scrolls, he wondered if there was not more than the art of the sword, the way of the horse, the life of the warrior. It seemed like there might be many lives one might lead, if only one was prepared.
"It is always good to learn, Kronos. Always. She would tell you as much, if she were here. And so I came here to learn."
"Never stop...she did say it was wise. And I should have something--the journey was long." He stood, staring, uncomfortable. And then, as if reading his mind, Methos knew how very recently it had happened. He could see that much in a face at times. And that only made him realize how important it was to the young man that he receive training--to learn loss. To learn survival.
Methos looked at the man--seventy-five years of age, strong, accomplished in battle, a leader of men, skilled in words and deeds, and saw a helpless child. He silently cursed at the woman--beyond the grave, she had her wish--if she had need of a man to train him--it would be he. And, if he knew her, she would smile to know he was cursing at her, as his discomfort seemed to bring her special joy.
He found wine, and bread, and fruit, and laid them out, and watched his student eat. He already saw him as his student. It amazed him--a student. And a brother.
Parents might leave their sons with estates, their daughters with dowries. She left her favorite pupil with a burden. He smiled. Just like her. Annoying to the end.
Posted on Mar 20, 2000, 7:39 PM from IP address 171.223.158.248
"They say this temple disappears," Methos, said, knowing the youngster wasn't truly listening, from the look of him. He did not know, had not known the man long enough to know that he generally was listening, he had simply made a point of not seeming so.
"Does it?"
"So they say. That it was built of old, and then, the sands had swallowed it, once. And then, it reappeared, as if out of nothing. So they say. But many things might be said. She...said that things were so. That a people might eat the flesh of man, and then consider it a thing not to be touched. Or they might eat of the sheep--and then wear no wool--I should live to see this be the fate of the people of Kemet! Their holiest things are the scrolls--those." He gestured to the stack of scrolls, on sheepskin, etched with symbols in ink made from the dye of a plant so rare, it was said it was no longer seen.
"And my people should one day shun the meat of pig and wine, if what you say is true. I do not think to see such a day. Nor should their women be any the less bold," Kronos said, knowing well the proclivities of that race.
"Yes, a thing might be said for those women," Methos agreed, thinking on those nights he had spent at the temple of Inanna, lying with Anath-Sin. No, she had not been of those people, but sure the women of that temple would have had lessons to learn of her. "Perhaps not the meat of pig, and wine, and certainly not those women. Some things will forever be held sacred."
Kronos laughed then. "How long have you been here? How long have you lived this life of study? It can not be long--you have even held your steed--a mistake. How else would I have found you? Sloppiness, who else rides?"
Methos' face became pensive--well he knew this was not the way of the people who dwelt along the Nile, but they scarcely seemed to pay him mind. It seemed they considered him to be a magician, and so left him alone--and of course, he came bearing word of Anath-Sin, and Imhotep. These were a people who did not forget their old ways, but collected the words of these. This temple, and its scrolls, spoke of eternal things. Methos liked this notion of things that might endure, even as he hoped to. Also did he like the notion of this writing--to keep events in mind. It bothered him to no end that he had no sense of his origin--and it seemed to him that it might be well to preserve such things, lest they be lost to time.
"Not long. I have not been here long. I have but just begun to learn the things they have here to teach me. They speak of life eternal, and of many souls, and of Isis and Osiris, who knew each other in the womb. And also they speak of Ptah--who had created this world--and of her," and at this, Methos pointed to a lion-headed statue of the goddess Sekhmet. "She is the destroyer, and yet also the healer. His woman."
Kronos gazed on the statue with respect. "It is beautiful. It is...like her. A destroyer...but one who might do good."
Methos frowned. "Perhaps. I did not see it before. I'm not certain that I do, now."
But in his head, the words of the oracle rang out--she would be like Sekhmet, or like Isis. She would lose a lover, and mourn, or she would destroy a world. She had done neither. All she had done, was die.
Methos had a desire to change the subject. "You should rest here this night. Perhaps I will teach you how to read their symbols--it is not like the writings of your people--but simple enough."
"Perhaps," Kronos responded, politely. But he had no intention of remaining. Already, he had quite lost patience with this place, its scrolls, its feeling of permanent things. He was used to the path of destruction.
Posted on Mar 23, 2000, 6:45 PM from IP address 152.170.88.111
Boy, that last tent party must have been something,look what happened
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I'm off for a weekend due to my daughter haveing unusual, for her, systems when a migraine hit, and look what happens. Add to that the new company who bought out our internet service upgrading $#@*&?!, still haveing problems can't even get into alot of sites.
Are you guys real sure someone was watching the boys the whole time that party was going on.
Posted on Mar 12, 2000, 1:56 PM from IP address 208.166.66.149
I'd say it was a big bang, has anyone heard anything yet?
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Could use the distraction of the forum right now I think both my daughters are trying to drive us crazy both are going in for tests. the one with the migraines gets a cat scan tomorrow.
Posted on Mar 14, 2000, 8:43 PM from IP address 208.170.242.158
Plesase feel free to post, fru, party of whatever sounds like fun (NOT YOU CASPIAN...get him Methos). The only real rule is no flaming please. Everyone is welcome, all topics are welcome. However I would like to ask all visitors to bring a fru of your choice once a week just so my drooling habit is realy for the MOVIE. Again please stop often and I know it isnt Rysher but maybe it can be our home away from home until Rysher or even Panzer-davis takes action to correct things. The sooner the better.
Posted on Mar 12, 2000, 12:25 AM from IP address 216.93.70.116
Also if you have ideas on how to improve the forum
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and can help provide the expertise to help the idea reach fruition dont hesitate to email me. I am always open for suggestions ( as long as someone can help show me what to do *bg*)
Posted on Mar 12, 2000, 12:27 AM from IP address 216.93.70.116
Yes, thank you so much for the invitation! It has been so nice of the MacFrus to let us use their Forum but this looks a little bit more like what we're used to. Creatures of habit, I suppose! LOL.
Posted on Mar 11, 2000, 3:39 PM from IP address 205.188.198.23
I love that fru with the toes, too. Used to have it for screen saver!
You should have heard the comments from co-workers at the office when I had the fru of him in the grass with his shirt open!!!
I had to place icons in um...*strategic* locations!
Somebody tell me, please! I just got back to the Rysher forum last week and Monday it was down. Is it gone now forever???Where's everybody gone?
So sad not to find all the HL fans and hear the news!
If you can help me find out, please email me. I have to use the puters at the univ. library, but I'll check back in. Yikes! it happened so fast! Did anybody know they were going down so quickly?
Well, we'll still have a blast here I hope!
Gotta run...
Best blessings to all...
Hugs and Big Silly Grins to all Methosluvrs!
FOM
Posted on Mar 9, 2000, 9:55 AM from IP address 208.45.208.1
REPOST: Win a mouse pad signed by Peter Wingfield!
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Just a friendly reminder for anyone wanting to participate in the current contest. Submissions are due in by April 1, 2000. So far, there has been only one submission. The prize is a Methos mouse pad personally signed by Peter Wingfield. Contest rules and notes can be found at the following address: http://www.crosswinds.net/~macmint/contest0.html
Posted on Feb 29, 2000, 9:27 PM from IP address 152.207.170.207
Okay, not everyone's cup of cake--but--this is the Haggisversary!!!!
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Yes, exactly one year ago, I hauled my haggis to the ROGBoard. And yes--a foodfight ensued. And yes, I was ashamed, for like, one minute. But I just wanted to say...this is the day a year ago I found a place to unload, have fun, and get stupid. Just wanted to voice that.
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Posted on Feb 25, 2000, 8:04 PM from IP address 171.208.238.107
have been posted to my site and the plot thickens as I begin to wind down the story. Yes, I do see the end in sight finally and I am going to try to work on it in a more steady fashion than what I have been able to do thus far.
Hmmm. Maybe your online access being limited for a little while was good. It gives more time for your muses to carry you away. Great stuff. Keeps me wanting more.
Posted on Feb 18, 2000, 8:08 PM from IP address 216.93.69.231
If I can get some things done here this weekend so I have more free time, I hope to do at least 2 more chapters.(maybe more!) The story is biting at me to finish and I have at least anywhere from 5-7 more in the planning stages after this. I already am hearing dialogue from the new stories, know what I mean? Plus I need to finish "Redemption and Acceptance" too!
(no, not crazy...more like 500% insane! LOL I really should look into getting something published...)
Posted on Feb 18, 2000, 10:38 PM from IP address 207.136.3.175
and this is even more exciting than the hospital. I dont know how I missed it when you wrote it. Please dont leave it too long. Anticipation is making me crazy.
Posted on Feb 19, 2000, 4:57 PM from IP address 216.93.70.200
Hmpf and I were just discussing how quiet this board is and now there are loads of people here. I've already posted a note saying that I'm relatively new to this whole message board thing but I'd like to introduce myself again and say hello to all of the people who have suddenly appeared (Vixen69 and Rebecca).
Hello! I'm EMMA (England's Maddest Methos Admirer) and I'm a Methosholic - just kidding!!!
BIG THANK YOUs for all of the messages so far. Keep drooling.
EMMA
Posted on Feb 17, 2000, 7:17 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
So you decided to that you didn't want to enter my disturbed mind. Very sensible - I don't blame you at all.
What is it with his TOES??? Everyone comments on them and I can't even remember when they were shown. Can you point me in the right direction to find a picture so I can judge for myself.
EMMA
Posted on Feb 9, 2000, 5:59 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
One thing I will say--just from the comparative anatomy p.o.v. The man got a nice set of extremities. I mean--feet and hands, etc. One does wonder if there should be any other body parts as nice that we haven't yet viewed. Oh Lawdy--but that sounded evil. So sue me.
And I come with a little something--I set up a site where I've got the whole Anath-Sin and Methos thing posted up. (Hmm...thoughts of Methos stirring up my muses--lightning has been known to strike! *g*)
Wow, I have to admit you're right they are nice feet! Then again I am biased because I find the whole package rather pleasing. As for the other bodyparts -We'll just have to use our imagination. Did I mention I have a REALLY good imagination?
I loved the fru, what a gorgeous pose! With your permission I may need to download the picture as a wallpaper.
Thanks for the message
EMMA
Energetically
Motivated
Methos
Admirer
Posted on Feb 16, 2000, 3:17 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
I run halfway across campus for a Marketing meeting and nobody else bothers to turn up - typical!!!
So where was I? Oh Yes. I found the internet. Hundreds of pictures of The Nose, zillions of quotes and worst of all fanfiction.
I might have been able to leave my obsession behind believing there was nothing left to discover. The series had ended and I knew that eventually even the internet sites devoted to the Nose would not be able to hold my attention. Then I found the seventh Dimension Archive and thousands of new Methos stories appeared. They explored his character deeper than any episode and allowed the reader to see what the ROG is thinking as well as what he is saying. I do not agree with all of the characterisations (eg I don't like slash) but mostly the stories are entertaining and insightful. I really enjoy the humourous ones - have you read Beer, Bodypaint and Bartabs?
And more recently I have found that interaction with real people on the internet is another way to keep an obsession alive. Especially when you have been hiding your secret for a long time.
But it wasn't until I read your essay that I realised that (like you) I had always been separating the other methos/highlander fans (I really hate that word)from myself. In my own mind there has always been them and me. 'They' are the fans who openly admit their obsession and go to the conventions. And there's 'me' - I like to think that I am different, in fact it is essential for me to differentiate myself from them.
Anyway, to cut a long story short. TOO LATE. My situation at the moment is as follows:
- my obsession is secret
- you are the only one who knows my full story
- there are only four things that physically connect me to my addiction:
1. A pile of video's neatly labelled with numbers.
2. A disc box full of my favourite fanfics and pics -also labelled numberically.
3. A small book which systematically states all of the episodes /fanfic stories and which video/disc they can be found on.
4. This is the most risky evidence. I have downloaded a methos image from the internet and made a wallpaper background for my computer. My flatmates are beginning to think that I'm strange because I switch the computer screen off everytime they walk into my room. In a way the wallpaper is my own personal rebellian...and to think my flat mates buy huge posters of their favourite actors and stick them all over their walls.
Mentally my addiction is much greater than a few videos and a picture on my computer screen. I create my own little fantasy world and construct stories around my favourite character. I'm not losing touch with reality, I AM NOT INSANE. It's just something I do at night to help me sleep, I drift off into my own little world and wake up with a huge smile on my face. Get your mind out of the gutter - it's not like that (at least not all of the time).
So there's my story. Sad, isn't it? Maybe you can reassure me that I am not a lunatic. Then again, maybe you can't <g>.
EMMA
Posted on Feb 9, 2000, 5:46 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
I really should be working at building a website for my school right now, I have a tight schedule for this and a lot to learn, but answering your post is important, so it comes first!
First of all: Thank you so much for sharing. I am very touched. I feel honoured. This is easily the most beautiful reaction to that essay I ever got. It's people like you this essay was written for - people who have the same problem as I had when I became aware of my obsession two years ago.
If you stay with fandom for a while, you will probably find out that this 'I may be obsessed about a TV character but I'm not a (*gasp! Shudder!*) FAN" attitude is actually very common among newbies. You come into fandom, look around, and after a while you realize that these people aren't so different from yourself. They're normal people, people who have a life. And what's more, you discover you like them! They're not nuts, and they're not stupid either. The general public, though, likes to think of us that way.
You notice I wrote 'us'. For a long time, I didn't even dare think 'us' when I thought about fandom. It was a matter of 'me' versus 'them'. This has changed, slowly, over the past two years when I began to spend more and more time in the (virtual) company of other fans from around the world. First it changed to 'Okay, so I may be a Methos fan, but at least I'm not a HL fan, cause HL fans are certainly more stupid than Methos fans'. Then, after a while, it changed to 'Okay, I may not be a huge HL fan, but liking Duncan MacLeod does not make people stupid or crazy; this is just a matter of taste.' =) At present, I'm calling myself a schizophrenic HL fan (*g*) 'cause I still don't exactly love the show, yet all my fannish activities and contacts build on it. BTW, I haven't been to a convention yet, but I am at the moment saving money to go to Historicon in May 2001. This will be my first con, and I hope I will meet some of the people I know from the net there.
So, let me address the story of your obsession in detail now. Later on, I will add some theoritical stuff on the merits of fandom.
>> In fact I was very nervous the first time I posted a note to the board. It has always been MY secret and I suppose the reason for this is that I am ashamed of this silly (?) addiction - please don't hit me.
I won't hit you. I know how you feel - been there, done that, bought the toga, as Methos says in 'Rapture' by Wombat (I think). =) But let me assure you, being a fan (*ouch* did it hurt to hear this word applied to yourself? I bet it did. But trust me - it will get easier. ;-)) is neither silly nor unhealthy. It is, IMO, even quite healthy. I will explain later.
>> In fact to read this you would probably think I am a complete idiot ... I'm not by the way ...then again read this and you might disagree.
(((Emma))) - Don't worry!!! I can relate to every part of your 'addiction career! Every little bit - except maybe the parts about your father, 'cause my father hates the show! g
>> Maybe you can help me analyse why I can become so soppy over a fictional character in a TV show.
Oh LOL, I'm afraid I'm still puzzling over this myself! Sorry! But maybe I can help you by analysing fandom in general a bit for you...
>> The thing is, I never told anyone and therefore nobody knew. My parents would have laughed and my friends, well how could I tell them? Most of them had nover even heard of the series and the ones who had considered it to rubbish - put the knife down, please!
Don't have a knife to put down... I don't exactly consider HL to be the greatest show ever aired, either. The secret of fandom, though, is that it doesn't require 'material' of great quality to work. Let me quote something from memory (don't remember the exact wording): 'If alchemy is about turning shit into gold, fans are the greatest alchemists there are.' Fandom is about what you do with the material, really - not about the material itself.
But about your keeping this a secret... How can you be so sure your parents will laugh at you? Well, I don't know whether you have a good or a bad relationship with your parents, but if it's a reasonably good relationship, I don't think they will laugh. Maybe they wouldn't understand, but I don't think parents usually laugh when their children tell them something like this. But again, of course I don't know your parents...
Concerning your friends: If they're real friends, you should be able to tell them without being ridiculed. My experience has been that most people I told about my obsession were surprisingly 'cool' about it. They didn't laugh, they didn't call me crazy or infantile. I think I wouldn't tell people who don't know me well, because then the only thing they would know about me would be that I am a fan. People who really know me, though, people who know me as a rational, intelligent and down-to-earth person, I have told. Some were amused, and some were really bewildered, but that's okay. None of them stopped being my friend for this, and most at least tried to understand. Some even told me about secret obsessions of theirs! So, I think you might actually experience some positive surprises when you decide to 'come out'. And if there's anybody who behaves really stupid about your 'coming out', then I'd say this person wasn't a real friend anyway.
I know you are far from publicly admitting to be a fan yet. But I hope for you that you will come to terms with this finally - maybe through continued contact with the great folks active in HL fandom. This fandom is really worth defending... should anyone make derisive comments about it. There are some highly intelligent, highly creative people active in HL fandom and fandom in general. Take Tanja Kinkel, for example. You may have read some of her fanfic - if you haven't, I strongly suggest you do! 'Incubus' is one of my eternal top three favourite Methos stories! Tanja is a well known Real Life author of historical novels in Germany. Take Amand-r - she's not much older than me, but she writes Methos stream-of-consciousness as if she had 5000 year old mind works... take Leah and Annie from the Rysher HL forum - just watch some of the threads they're involved in... and take a hundred more, people on the Rysher board or in all the different clans, or some of the people who write fanfic. This is not company to be ashamed of.
>> The hardest part was that HL:TS was still airing the last season on cable and I couldn't/wouldn't ask my parents to tape it for me.
A similar dilemma tortured me for a while - then I decided I needed those tapes and told my parents...
>> At the high point of my obsession I used to think about HIM a lot eg when I got bored at college, while I was waiting for a bus etc.
g - Do I know this feeling...! His name used to be like a mantra in my head: methosmethosmethosmethosmethos... (I'm serious.)
>> I have loads of friends, I go out dancing at least once a week and I'm easy to talk to. I am not some social recluse and I DO NOT WEAR AN ANORAK!
Well... I don't wear an anorak either, but I'm afraid I fit the cliché of the geeky fan more precisely: I do have very few friends and tend to spend most of my spare time at my computer or watching videos (I have another great obsession: DS9). Well, but I do have friends, and if they are few, they are also very close friends and I wouldn't want to swap them for a horde... g
And I have friends on the net, all of which are HL fans, and I think of them as real friends too.
>> I really enjoy the humourous ones - have you read Beer, Bodypaint and Bartabs?
No. I'm afraid I'm kinda busy in RL at the moment...
>>1. A pile of video's neatly labelled with numbers
same here. In German and in English (acquired through the help of some nice forumlander)
>>2. A disc box full of my favourite fanfics and pics -also labelled numberically
It's a disc box and some big cardboard folders here... four of them. They weigh about six or seven kilos. And then there's about 30 photos I took off the TV screen... g
>>4. This is the most risky evidence. I have downloaded a methos image from the internet and made a wallpaper background for my computer. My flatmates are beginning to think that I'm strange because I switch the computer screen off everytime they walk into my room.
Yup - know that, too. In fact, I did hide my wallpaper some days ago from a visitor - I'm not open about my obsession to just *anyone*, a certain basic trust is necessary! =)
>> Mentally my addiction is much greater than a few videos and a picture on my computer screen. I create my own little fantasy world and construct stories around my favourite character.
Again, nothing unusual or disturbing about that. We all do it. I'm pretty sure mundanes (non-fans) do it too, in their own way. Imagination is one of the things that make us human, and something we need to stay sane.
>> So there's my story. Sad, isn't it? Maybe you can reassure me that I am not a lunatic. Then again, maybe you can't
I hope very much that I can reassure you! (Of course, my reassurance might be useless if I am a lunatic myself... hmmmmmmmmm... but let me assure you that many people consider me one of the most rational people they know! *g*)
Okay. Still with me? I'm sorry this is getting, err, longish. But I have a point to make yet. This is really about self-assuredness - about daring to stand up in the face of the traditional cultural canon that considers popular culture not worth our kind of engagement, and say: 'Hey, I like this, and I feel good about liking this.'
(If I sound like a coming-out self-helf group meeting, I'm sorry, but this is actually a similar situation! ;-))
I read a book recently. The title is "Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture" and the author, Henry Jenkins, is an assistant professor of literature at the MIT and an active fan. This might be just the book for you, because after reading it, you feel really proud to be a part of that fascinating cultural grass roots movement called 'fandom'. I am not able to summarize its content here, but I really think you might like to read it - it really gave me the confidence I needed to make fandom an 'official' part of my life. As of this year, the year 2000, I am publicly referring to myself as a fan. I've decided to finally stop being ashamed. Fandom is not all there is about me, but it's a significant part, and I do not want to hide that part anymore... But back to Mr. Jenkins, and to my own ideas.
Being a fan is neither crazy nor unhealthy. It is, on the contrary, a way of creatively dealing with ideas and ideologies the media provide. In a way, fandom is always subversive, because fans claim power over their preferred TV show. They do not simply accept everything that's offered to them, but decide actively what they like and what they don't like, and change the things they don't like - hence fanfiction. Slash, even if you don't like to read it much (neither do I) is a good example of how fans turn the material of the show upside down and transform it. A mainstream TV show would never focus on male/male relationships the way slash does; thus, slash could be considered subversive for exploring a subtext present in many shows with male protagonists yet never explictly stated.
The way fans 'watch' TV is a lot more active than that of the normal TV watcher who just watches but doesn't produce. Fans produce a wide variety of cultural products - literature, essays, paintings, music. They maintain an intricate web of relationships and support each other. Fandom started to develop in the 1930s and since then it has evolved into a autonomous subculture. I think the word 'culture' is indeed properly used here, even if the 'raw material' this culture was built on seems trivial to most 'outsiders'. I think fandom is a culture worth being a part of and worth defending and explaining to those who like to see it as 'infantile' or 'sick'.
Well, maybe you will muster the courage to 'come out' some time... Take your time, though, don't force it. I needed quite some time, too, but when I did, it felt good.
I'd like to have sent this to you via e-mail, but I don't have your mail addy.. In case you'd like to mail me, mine is hmpf1998@gmx.net. I'm awfully busy for the next two and a half weeks, but afterwards, I will be happy to reply... I feel like 'there's a bond between us'! g
Now I have to go to bed!
Hmpf
Posted on Feb 9, 2000, 3:56 PM from IP address 195.252.200.106
(((EMMA))) + (((Hmpf)))! I can't add a whole lot to this conversation..
by
because I've always admitted to being a fan of this and that, but I would like to share how I explained my decision to a friend when I was younger.
I was.. oh.. fourteen or fifteen, and she was slightly older. She made that "it's so childish" accusation. I told her that I thought she had only a slightly better chance of ever getting to meet Tom Cruise than I did of ever getting to meet the comic book character I was obsessed about. And because mine was a fictional character I could know more about him than she could Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise has a private life that's his, a fictional character is written so that I can read about his life.
Posted on Feb 13, 2000, 12:05 PM from IP address 209.222.78.77
Thunkers! Serve.. mmhmm.. good thing you didn't include a fru. *snerk*
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"Serve" works. Even people who are watching some "serious" drama, or reading some "serious" book are still using entertainment to make them feel something different, see something different. Having a fantasy life is a normal healthy thing, and I think it's healthier to admit that your spending sometime exploring different things than to dismiss that exploration as childish. vbg
Posted on Feb 16, 2000, 9:12 AM from IP address 209.222.78.20
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
When I feel blue in the night
And I need you to hold me tight
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreamin’ my life away
I need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreamin’ my life away
I need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
FADE
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
---------------------------------------------
This is what I remember when I am in the ROG Mood.
Linda
Ps. I have pretty big collection of ROG Pics if you need some dream material....
Posted on Mar 13, 2000, 2:15 PM from IP address 216.115.226.62
I've read your essay 'man with Long Coat'and have decided that what you've written takes both courage and acceptance. I'm not quite sure I'm there yet and that's why I won't join the BABE camp.
I've never told anybody about my secret obsession. In fact I was very nervous the first time I posted a note to the board. It has always been MY secret and I suppose the reason for this is that I am ashamed of this silly (?) addiction - please don't hit me.
I'm afraid I'm not as good at expressing myself as you are, and my grasp on the finer points of the English language (eg grammer, spelling and long words) leaves a lot to be desired. In fact to read this you would probably think I am a complete idiot ... I'm not by the way ...then again read this and you might disagree.
Having read the story of your obsession, I would like to share mine with you. Maybe you can help me analyse why I can become so soppy over a fictional character in a TV show. Once again I emphasise that I have never admitted this to anyone.
If you can't be bothered to listen to the ramblings of a mad woman then I suggest you turn away now and read the other lighter message I've left on the board. If you really want to enter my disturbed mind ... read on.
Please note some Highlander bashing will most likely occur. But Methos will leave this message completely untouched.
WOW YOU ARE BRAVE.
Where do I start? I think it is important to establish that I never used to like Highlander. I've always liked the concept of the show but the main character did nothing for me...that's not true, to be honest he irratated me. I think Methos got it right when he called DM a 'Boyscout'. The whole 'I'm a sensitive hero and I'm going to save the world' thing did not impress me. It made what could have been a great show ... well average really! I say average because they are showing some absolute rubbish on British TV at the moment.
But for some reason (which I could not understand at the time)my father used to watch the show and I would sit there picking holes in it. My general thoughts were. If I was an immie I would:
a) Buy a large steel collar and wear it around my neck
b) Carry a very BIG gun and use it without hesitation
c) Say I am EMMA of the clan MacEMMA and then run in the opposite direction as fast as is physically possible.
I think you can understand why I never related to the show's hero.
Anyway, they changed the TV schedule and my father asked me to tape the show when he went out. Being the technical whizz kid (NOT)that I am I agreed.
It was while I was checking that the video was recording correctly that I first noticed HIM or as I fondly called him 'The Nose' (this was long before I became familar with the terms BFLG or ROG). And what a nose, what a man. I sat down and watched the whole episode and that was it I was hooked.
Over the next few weeks (because unlike you I was not treated to HL:TS every night, I had to wait a whole week between episodes)I kept my eye on the video's looking for the nose. The more I saw of him the more interesting he became. Not only was he attractive (drool) but he was the type of character I could relate to. He did not want to save the day, he was sarcastic, cynical and sometimes he wasn't a very nice person.
Eventually it started to become more serious. I would check the cable guide as soon as it arrived to see if The Nose would be appearing in any of the episodes that month. After my father had watched the videos (the ones including The Nose) they would quietly disappear into my room. Even to this day my father cannot understand his diminishing video collection.
The worst thing was the waiting. I would wait all week for HL:TS hoping that he would appear. The show aired at 9.00pm on Thursday and by lunch time on Thursday a stupid smile would appear on my face because I might see him that night. If anything happened that I would miss the show (like my mother insisting we watch a film on the other channel) I would be stroppy all week until the following Thursday afternoon.
The thing is, I never told anyone and therefore nobody knew. My parents would have laughed and my friends, well how could I tell them? Most of them had nover even heard of the series and the ones who had considered it to rubbish - put the knife down, please!
So this rather unhealthy obsession continued and I secretly watched the videos and go all faint at the sight of Methos.
Then I went to University and I had to learn to live without my addiction. In fact, I went cold turkey for 10 weeks. No cable TV and I left my precious video collection at home. The hardest part was that HL:TS was still airing the last season on cable and I couldn't/wouldn't ask my parents to tape it for me.
After a year of occassional video watching my obsession began to fade. At the high point of my obsession I used to think about HIM a lot eg when I got bored at college, while I was waiting for a bus etc. After a year of separation I gradually phased him out of my life. I know what you're thinking - People get over divorce more quickly!
Now you could easily think I am some kind of lunatic. But I'm not. I'm a normal person, honest! I have loads of friends, I go out dancing at least once a week and I'm easy to talk to. I am not some social recluse and I DO NOT WEAR AN ANORAK!
But I am a ROG fan. I think the character is fantastic. In fact I think they should have killed of DM and let Methos take over years ago. I'm sure that there are lots of other people who would agree with me. I am certain I do not need to explain to you why Methos is such an appealing character. Stop drooling and keep reading.
I've written shorter essay's than this...
Anyway, a year away from the Nose and I was beginning to recover quite nicely and then last term I found the internet.
What can I say? If there is anything in this world that can lead to a relapse into methos obsession it's the internet. It never interested me before and then my friend and I were mucking around and she said I could find information on anything I really felt passionate about. The next day I found a computer (alone)and typed in the word Highlander. I couldn't believe how many people shared my Methos obsession.
I've really got to go now, let me finish my story in a couple of hours.
Posted on Feb 9, 2000, 5:01 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
Just a quick note to say I tried out some of your links. I was very impressed by your own site and it gave me some insight into who I'm writing to.
You were correct, the essay 'Man With a Long Coat' was fantastic. In fact it made such an impression that I saved the text to disc so that I can make some comments while reading it a second time at home. I have recognised some patterns in our obssession that I will share in my next message after I have re-read the essay.
I also had a quick look around the BABE board. This may sound silly but I felt it would be rude to interrupt. Everyone seems to know each other and I didn't want to intrude. Will anyone mind if I start adding to the discussions?
Posted on Feb 7, 2000, 3:11 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
if you want to join, post a message saying 'I want to join' or something along those lines at the BABE board. It's true, we know each other, but some of us are still quite new, too, and you will get to know us, too! It just takes a little while... (I joined in April 99, I think, but I began to feel at home pretty soon. BABEs are usually very welcoming... and we haven't had a newbie for a while! )
thanks for liking the essay! =)
Have to go - I'm trying to build a website for my school and have to learn a lot yet to be able to do this properly, so I'm spending most of my time at the moment reading html tutorials...
Hmpf
Posted on Feb 8, 2000, 10:58 AM from IP address 195.252.201.158
No need to rush, I just wanted to make sure you hadn't forgotton me!
I saw Soldier, Soldier on TV the other day and was treated to a whole hour of Peter Wingfield. It was fantastic! I don't feel so bad about missing the Highlander repeats now. The accent is real but it's a shame about the haircut.
Posted on Jan 29, 2000, 6:00 PM from IP address 205.188.192.161
Celedon said Peter Wingfield is Welsh but I don't think that explains his accent. I've been to Wales and have a few Welsh friends at University and none of them speak like that. If they did I would seriously consider moving to Wales!!!
Having watch Soldier, Soldier (British drama series starring Robson and Jerome - I'm not sure if their fame ever reached Germany)I can conclude that PW uses the same accent. And WOW what an accent!!!
If you ever get a chance to watch any of the old Soldier, Soldier repeats (C1990)look out for the episode I saw last night. PW was in bed with no shirt on - are you feeling jealous yet?
Drool!
EMMA
(Easily Motivated Methos Admirer)
Posted on Jan 31, 2000, 3:19 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
Celedon said Peter Wingfield is Welsh but I don't think that explains his accent. I've been to Wales and have a few Welsh friends at University and none of them speak like that. If they did I would seriously consider moving to Wales!!!
Having watch Soldier, Soldier (British drama series starring Robson and Jerome - I'm not sure if their fame ever reached Germany)I can conclude that PW uses the same accent. And WOW what an accent!!!
If you ever get a chance to watch any of the old Soldier, Soldier repeats (C1990)look out for the episode I saw last night. PW was in bed with no shirt on - are you feeling jealous yet?
Drool!
EMMA
(Easily Motivated Methos Admirer)
Posted on Jan 31, 2000, 3:20 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
how often do you drop by here? at the moment, I'm only taking a peek every few days, because there isn't much going on here... but I'd love to see this change!!!! this was one of the first boards I ever posted anything at, and I regret seeing it so inactive...
Posted on Feb 1, 2000, 3:03 PM from IP address 195.252.197.219
I tend to check the notice board when I check my e-mails every few days. I'm currently at university so I have the odd hour between lectures when it isn't worth leaving campus or starting any heavy reading. To escape from the cold I go to the library and use the computers there.
I'm sure you can imagine the problems involved with using the internet in the library. I get some very funny looks when I start giggling at the fanfic stories and sometimes people look over my shoulder at the computer and think I'm completely mad.
I first used the internet last term (November)and have been hooked ever since. I would never have believed there is so much Highlander related stuff here. I think the notice board is my favourite part of the internet because you get to interact with real people who have similar interests - like you.
I love to look on the notice board and find I have a response to my message, it's fun!!!
You're right it isn't very active here but if you keep responding to my messages, I will continue to write back to you.
EMMA
England's
Maddest
Methos
Admirer
Posted on Feb 2, 2000, 3:32 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
(ack! I was just about to send a looooong reply to your reply, but it disappeared! I hate it when that happens!!!)
Well... I'm really stressed out in RL (organizing a fair and building a website for it) at the moment, but I, too, have an interest in keeping this board alive! =) Actually, at the moment, I find the 'slowness' of this board quite relaxing, compared to 'faster'/more active boards...
If you like this place, you might like The BABE Board, too, btw!
This here is a shameless plug for my own website... If I have done this before, please forgive me... Anyway, you might like the essay I posted there - "Man With LOng Coat" - it's what people usually like best about my site!
Well, have to go and make some dinner... but I'll be around. I love 'meeting' fans from Europe.... There aren't such a lot of us over here, you see?
see you around!
Hmpf
Posted on Feb 3, 2000, 9:37 AM from IP address 195.252.197.179
Here's a question for all of you ROG fans. I love the ROG's accent in Highlander but is it real?
Did he use that accent at the conventions? and what about his other appearences on TV? Did he use a Jordy (is that spelt right?) accent in Soldier, Soldier?
Posted on Jan 18, 2000, 9:15 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
I just love the way he speaks. I fell in love with him before i'd ever heard him speak (i.e. I only knew the German-dubbed versions), but then I acquired copies of the Methos eps in English - thanks to a HL fan in England who copied them for me - well, need I say my obsession went out of control! LOL
Hmpf
Posted on Jan 23, 2000, 1:00 PM from IP address 195.252.199.149
A forwarded message on how the fandom can help HL4 from BP
by Celedon *I'm just the messenger*
From: "Rowan, Reid" <rowan_r@hotmail.com>
>
>In November, I wrote to Bill Panzer about the fans helping to promote the
>new Highlander movie. This is the letter:
>
>Dear Mr. Bill Panzer,
>
>My name is Stephani Reid, and we recently spoke on the Highlander Cruise.
I
>approached you and asked your permission to start a letter writing campaign
>to help promote "Highlander: The Legacy". You replied that it was a good
>idea, but you wanted to make sure that it evolves correctly. You asked me
>to write you in regards to what I had in mind and to remind you of our
>conversation.
>I would like to organize the fans in a letter writing campaign, contacting
>various venues, telling them that we would like to see articles and
>interviews about the movie "Highlander: The Legacy" and its stars, mainly
>Christopher and Adrian.
>
>The written entertainment venues that I had in mind to target are:
>Entertainment Weekly, Us, People, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times
Calendar,
>Variety, Premiere Magazine, and TV guide.
>
>Television venues are to include: The Today Show, Good Morning America,
>Entertainment Tonight, MTV News, E! Entertainment, and Access Hollywood. I
>would also like to target talk shows: Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Rosie
>O'Donnell. If I have left out any venues that you would like to
specifically
>see targeted, please let me know.
>
>What I need from you is the timeframe in which you would like us to begin
>writing. Also, which venues you would like us to start with and if there
is
>anything in particular that you would like the letters to state.
>
>The goal is to generate enough interest that we, at the very least, end up
>with a good-sized media blitz on the new movie.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Stephani Reid
>
>This is his response, via his assistant:
>
>In response to your letter to Mr. Bill Panzer, he would like you to
>check back with him around the middle of May. We are still in
>production at this time.
>
>You may send any correspondences to him via this email address.
>
>Thank you,
>Sandra Avila - Asst.
>
>In April there will be a webpage with addresses for all of the above venues
>I mentioned to Mr. Panzer. I will make sure to get the information to all
>the list's I have been in touch with. And in turn, please send it out to
>everyone you think would be interested in this letter writing campaign.
>
>In May, I will contact Mr. Panzer again, and as soon as I hear from him, I
>will pass the information immediately.
>
>Thank you to everyone who has shown interest in this endeavor.
>
>Stephani Reid
Posted on Jan 18, 2000, 1:24 AM from IP address 207.136.47.29
Man! It was nice to watch the ROG again! I had missed him. I was thrilled to learn Sci Fi Channel was finally showing Highlander again. Tomorrow, I believe, is Valkarie--another Methos ep...followed by the best: Comes a Horseman & Rev.
Posted on Jan 13, 2000, 8:28 PM from IP address 199.174.185.48
This is my first time using an internet message board and I hope someone can help me.
I am a big Highlander (and ROG in particular) fan. The problem is that I live in England and the show is not aired regularly and reruns are no longer being shown.
The last episode I saw was the one where Mac took Richie's head. This means that i basically missed the whole of the last series and i would like to know waht happened.
If anyone can help me, I will really appreciate it.
Many Thanks
EMMA
Posted on Jan 12, 2000, 6:57 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
When season 6 starts out(ep named "Avatar") we see Duncan performing a kata at a Malaysian monastery where he has taken refuge in order to deal with Richie's death. It is one where it is obvious he is in pain over it--there are flashbacks to times spent with Richie both good and bad that are interspersed between the movements of the lata itself.
The longer he goes through the movements the more determined he looks as he works past the pain and accepts what has happened as well as his part in Richie's murder. Finally after the kata is over, he cuts his ponytail off so that his hair is short and throws the knife used to cut it right into the heart of a picture of Ahriman that is in am ancient book on display.
Cut to Paris where we see Joe talking to Richie's grave-- a year has past since the killing and it is the anniversary of Richie's death. He doesn't understand what happened and is unaware that Duncan is watching him from a distance.
Eventually Duncan joins him at the grave and looks at it; the tombstone simply reads "Richie Ryan, Friend". He asks for Joe's and the Watcher's help to defeat Ahriman but Joe tears into him and tells him he doesn't know if he will help or not.
In the meantime, Ahriman has forced Professor Landry's assitant into commiting suicide although she still thinks she's alive. She jumped over a bridge railing and fell to the Seine below. Duncan see this and dives in after her, saves her so he thinks. He enlists her help in trying to figure out a way of defeating the demon but she isn't much help.
He returns to the barge and begins to meditate; he enters a trancelike state where a small dwarf like man appears and begins to taunt him. Throwing a red ball at Duncan he repeatedly calls Dncan a Richie killer upon which a sword instantly appears in Duncan's hand the moment Duncan gets angry but the Dwarf disappears and Kronos appears ready to do battle with Duncan. They fight; the angerier Duncan gets, the stronger Kronos gets.
The trance is broken by Joe hollering at Duncan; he tells him he's been trying to bring him back for hours to no avail. Joe's been doing some serious thinking about the situation and what if anything he should do about helping after all that has happened in the last year.
Duncan thinks that Joe is there to tell him that he refuses to help but is greatly surprised when Joe says that he can't believe in something he can't see necessarily but he does believe in Duncan and yes, he wil help him in whatever way he can and he will enlist the Watchers to help dredge up information on ways to defeat him. (Methos is nowhere to be found--he left at the end of "rchangel"and no one knows where he is)
Duncan get involved full fledge then to try and find the way to stop the demon, even after Ahriman tries to tempt him with the return to life of Richie and Tessa. But Duncan not tempted--he's almost tempted but shakes it off. He tells Ahriman that in some book or somewhere there is a key that will tell him how to defeat him.
Ahriman vanishes but shows back up to Landry's assistant's house and proves to her that she is indeed dead, offers her her life back if she refuses to help MacLeod and also to kill him.
She is shocked at the revelation of her death, and he shows her what will happen to her troubled brother if she doesn't cooperate with him at which she reluctantly agrees to not help Duncan.
She returns home where she finds Duncan looking for her but her brother tries to kill Duncan with a machete from behind. Perching herself upon the railing of the bridge they are all on, she tells her brother that she would do anything for him including killing herself if it would mean that he would be safe and out of love for him.
Then she jumps.
Later disillusioned, Duncan returns to the barge to face trying to figure it out alone with Joe's help just what will stop the demon called Ahriman...
that's about it for the first episode of the 6th season. You can find the entire kata that I talk about above on my gallery pages. click on this link and it will take you there: The Avatar kata
You'll find a brief introduction/explanation of what is going on in the kata itself prior to seeing the actual pictures. It'll help you to understand all the complexities that are involved in it as well as the techniques.
I'll write a synopsis for the next ep, "Armeggedon" tomorrow for you. Hope this helps you!
Posted on Jan 12, 2000, 6:04 PM from IP address 207.136.50.56
A BIG thank you for your description of the first episode of the last season. It was fantastic. I would be very grateful if you continue to tell me the stories i missed if it's not to much trouble. Are you really serious about the ponytail going??? Yippee!!! It's time to celebrate, break open the champagne.
Thanks Again
EMMA
Posted on Jan 14, 2000, 5:41 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
You're welcome Emma and yes, *sniff* the 'tail is no more
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I'll be happy to tell you the stories from season 6 but it might be a bit sporadic since I have other duties and things to do too. I'll try to get the next ep done sometime this weekend and posted here for you in between RL and my cyberlife, ok?
I the meantime, please come visit my HL gallery, it's one of the biggest and best on the net with close to 30 pages of Methos pictures alone (and as always, more to come). You'll find it here-- My Highlander gallery
Also, here is one of the biggest collections of Highlander related links on the web too! Quink's Links If you want Highlander stuff and need to know where to go look for it, go see her site!
the ep, "Armegeddon" is next...
Posted on Jan 14, 2000, 9:13 PM from IP address 207.136.55.135
Make sure you see everything at Celedon's site. She has excellent fanfic ( I'm still waiting for the next installment of Redemption, Cel). Cel makes great teeshirts. You can pick out pictures from her site and she will transfer them to teeshirts. I just ordered and received teeshirts with pictures of Duncan with Conner, Duncan with Methos, and Duncan with Ritchie. They are absolutely great. Her pictures are to die for. Make sure you go and see Heaven. There isnt a better Highlander site on the whold web.
Posted on Jan 15, 2000, 2:07 PM from IP address 216.93.69.223
I have followed both your and Celedon's advice and been to her site. The gallary is amazing and induced far too much drooling in a public place.
I think I'm getting the hang of this whole internet thing now and I am surprised at the number of Highlander related sites on the web. It's a great way to fill in the odd hour between lectures!!!
Posted on Jan 16, 2000, 9:16 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
Once again thank you for recounting the episodes I missed - I'm amazed at how detailed your description was!!!
I took your advice and visited your site. It was fantastic. The gallary alone could keep me drooling for hours. Trust you to devote a whole page to shirtless pictures ... well done.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Posted on Jan 16, 2000, 9:07 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
hope you are here to stay! I remember delurking some two years ago for the first time for quite similar a reason - I was looking for someone to copy the Methos eps for me, after the show had finished! found some helpful soul, too - HL fans are a great lot! =) BTW, I'm in Europe too - Germany, to be exact... I'm always glad to find someone who's not quite as far away from me as most of the others here! g
Hmpf
Posted on Jan 13, 2000, 8:07 AM from IP address 62.52.232.108
Thanks for the kind welcome, I didn't expect to get any replies.
Are there many European ROG fans around. I'm new to this whole internet thing and was really surprised by the number of Highlander and Methos fans (mostly American) on the web. I thought I was alone but now I know there are lots of us around.
Posted on Jan 14, 2000, 5:45 AM from IP address 148.88.17.9
