list to keep in mind:
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timepiececlockTV series I want to purchase in total on DVD when I have the spare funds:
Farscape
The X Files
Highlander: the Series
Angel
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (already have most on VHS, so it can wait)
Alias
Firefly (if it comes out)
The West Wing
24
Gargoyles (if it comes out)
hmm.... am I leaving anything out? I'll constantly be buying anime as well, but this is all I can think of for TV... I'm not really interested enough to spend money on The Sopranos or Stargate SG1 or any of the Star Trek series, and when I think about it there's not a lot of TV that I actually watch.
Farscape
The X Files
Highlander: the Series
Angel
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (already have most on VHS, so it can wait)
Alias
Firefly (if it comes out)
The West Wing
24
Gargoyles (if it comes out)
hmm.... am I leaving anything out? I'll constantly be buying anime as well, but this is all I can think of for TV... I'm not really interested enough to spend money on The Sopranos or Stargate SG1 or any of the Star Trek series, and when I think about it there's not a lot of TV that I actually watch.
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Date: 2003-03-01 02:22 am (UTC)Its a ood list. Mine would look the same, except without Gargoyles (was it a cartoon? never heard of it), Highlander the series (prefer the filmin isolation)and the X-Files (really feel betrayed but that series!).
I might add the Muppets (Ilove muppets!), would certainly add the Avengers (except they release them in a really silly fashion rather than one series at a time!) and perhapos Bagpuss (old childrens program I grew up on!).
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Date: 2003-03-01 02:36 am (UTC)I like the series better than the films, actually. Though the visual scope of the first film was very good; love the mountain cinematography. And you've got to hand it to whoever came up with such a fucked up, far out concept for a movie in the first place. But mostly, I preferred the series. Better writing, stornger characters. And it had Methos! My second favorite TV character ever, after Spike.
Gargoyles (was it a cartoon? never heard of it)
Yeah, a cartoon. Disney tv series, 2 seasons. Take an idea-- that gargoyles come alive at night, add cool-ass NYC cop (who's both a woman and a minority of mixed ethnicity), and add a whole lot of Shakespeare lore. And have the animation design and story done by a bunch of asian animators. The result... a wonderfully intriguing American cartoon with all the drama of a high quality anime, and the coolest characters from Shakespeare made wildly weirdly different.
Never heard of Bagpuss.
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Date: 2003-03-01 03:33 am (UTC)Mot sure I say the series was better written, especaily not the first two seasons which seemed to suffer from "immortal-of-the-week" syndrome. Things didn't get really interesting until they started doing stuff with the watchers (now theres a name for a secret society that keeps doing the rounds! Must be up there with Illuminati!)
I also just felt the essential idea of Highlander was diluted by having a series. Perhaps if they hadn't have had the film first?
Ah methos, a man so old killing him back in the era when he was born must have been next to impossible (since we find out he was proto-summerian, and summerian swords? Well, taking a head off with one of them would have been an achievement!)
Bagpuss was great. Ask anyone British they will tell you the same!
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Date: 2003-03-01 12:34 pm (UTC)My problem with the HL movies was the only decent ones were #1 and #3. THe secodn one I stopped watching after less than 15 minutes, and the fourth one was only worth watching for the naked duncan chest and the 5-something minutes that Methos was on screen. The plot was rather blah, and I really disliked the female lead.
(since we find out he was proto-summerian, and summerian swords? Well, taking a head off with one of them would have been an achievement!)
Hadn't thought about it, but you're probably right. Since he couldn't really die of disease or starvation, and someone would have a hard time cutting of his head, he really only had to worry about random, surprise decapitation from a flying rock or something like that.
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Date: 2003-03-01 12:52 pm (UTC)Ok sorry. I just wiped those films from my mind. I think they should have left it alone after the first. So i chose to forget about the others, kind of just blanked (though you right 3 is better than 2, most films actually are better than highlander 2!)
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Date: 2003-03-01 01:06 pm (UTC)It's funny, that's wha the movie-making HL people seemed to do when they made the third film. They jsut completely ignored the second one, and pretended it had never been made.
I thought the third one was pretty good; Mario Van Peebles was a creepy disgusting villain, and the fights were very good, and the plot was at least interesting enough to keep my attention for the whole thing. I got supremely bored in the fourth film. It ould have helped if it had had more Joe or Methos; as they're strongly developed supporting characters in teh series. But they weren't used the way they could have been in the film, which was a mistake, as the only people who went to watch the film were probably the fans who had also seen the series.
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Date: 2003-03-01 02:38 am (UTC)