reinforce my clarity

Of the two episodes under review this time, I have no memory of ever watching the first before and a very clear memory of the second. Possibly I never did watch this first one...

( Zirkusluft )

( Das Geheimnis des Modeschoepfers )

Only three episodes to go and then series one is over. If I remember rightly, the Watchers should be entering soon, stage left... I'm looking forward to Joe's arrival but less so to Darius' departure, sigh.

I'm slightly over half way through series 1 now and still enjoying myself. Particularly the historical flashbacks actually - despite my inappropriate glee every time Duncan has a different accent, they really are rather impressive for a TV series. The costume dept must have loved all the opportunities to do different things too not to mention getting to dress someone who looks as good in absolutely everything as Adrian Paul!

So next up we have:

( Blondinen bevorzugt )

( Das Attentat )

( Nachright von Darius )

It seems like the order of episodes has sorted itself out now - the DVDs have started to agree with the order on the box so that will make it less irritating to watch!

Or if we want to be British "there can be only one, chaps". (Okay, they don't really say chaps.)

My quest to rewatch Highlander continues and now that I've demanded ny refund for shoddy, unplayable DVDs I have moved on to collecting the DVDs in the German releases (UK ones no longer seeming to exist). Which fortunately have a choice of German or original English audio because I don't remember much of the Deutsch I learned at school.

Though if you give me a couple of weeks, I'll be able to claim that I'm immortal, born in the highlands of Scotland and that I'm waiting for the Gathering since the written introduction at the start of each episodes' credits is in German. So are the titles actually which I was not expecting. And confusingly, the order of the episodes written on the DVD packaging does not match the order of the episodes actually on the discs... I'm pretty sure it is the packaging that has it correct from the little I was able to watch of the last set I tried! But all the episodes are there, just a little... jumbled.

So for the Germans on my flist I have now watched:
Die Zusammenkunft
Die Maske
Willenlos
Der Fremde
Sprung in den Tod
Ein Toter zuwenig
Die Wilderer

1, 2, 4 and 6 I can translate or it's close enough to the English version. Does 'sprung in den tod' mean jump to the death? It would fit, even if it's not much like Free Fall. But what on earth do 'willenlos' and 'ein toter zuwenig' mean? Because the second does not look much like Bad Day in Building A to me!

( Further ramblings on what I've watched below (with spoilers, obvs) )

I watched 3.5 of those today. This series is seriously addictive! And when I finish, I can watch them all again in German for the fun of it.

Flagged up by fajrdrako, SFX magazine is doing a poll for the 5 sexiest male and female sci-fi/fantasy stars.

Go vote sometime before 09 Aug.

My ten are (in no order):

1. David Tennant
2. Viggo Mortensen
3. Joe Flanigan
4. John Barrowman
5. Peter Wingfield

1. Claudia Black
2. Freema Agyeman
3. Sigourney Weaver
4. Amber Benson
5. Eliza Dushku

And now I shall go away and go "Oh pants, I forgot about X..." for the rest of the night.

So I just went and saw Wilby Wonderful at my local cinema (nyah nyah nyah) and it's soooo good - yeah, I know I have the DVD but seeing it in a full cinema (and it was pretty much, enough that I didn't spot any conspicuous fangirls) is a totally different experience. All the funny bits seemed much funnier just because there were lots of other people laughing. We got a voting card after for an award in the Commonwealth Film Festival (which was why it was showing in the first place) and all the ones I craned to see were giving it 4 stars.

Random thoughts:

Paul Gross is a damn pretty guy, possibly even prettier when he's older and a little tired compared to in dS for some reason. I think possibly because he looked so much more touchable and he was doing these little smiles that were just great.

James Allodi has the most marvellous eyes and a really sweet smile, and he was all low key and understated and lovely to watch.

Sandra Oh cracks me up and then makes me all sad, which is a total compliment, and Rebecca Jenkins and Ellen Page were both just perfect.

And what about Mr Callum Keith Rennie, I hear you cry? Sex on legs, as usual. He has really nice arms (lets hear a big yay for overalls) and a sweet smile and his eyes are so pretty... And was it nice seeing all that on a big screen? Not half! He's the most gorgeous part of a gorgeous little film.

now it’s the turn of the TV series.

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I promise the recs will be in the next one!

Which I think deserves a post of its own: the characters are damn nice to look at! (So I’m shallow, so what?) See ( here )

Or check out these lovely vids, I’m Too Sexy by Melina and Steam by Killa, both available here.

Partly inspired by buzzylittleb, I have embarked on the fun and amusing task of compiling recs of the fandoms I have visited since discovering the phenomenon of fanfiction about 5 years ago. (Wow, was it that recently? It feels a lot longer!)

So it makes sense to start with the first fandom I ever stumbled across, Highlander. The post was getting pretty long, so I'm going to split it into two or three, starting with my attempt to explain the complicated background of the HL fandom( here )


And I'll go on to why I like it and the actual recs in a different post.