Highlander props and costumes
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beccaelizabethWatching Buffy, I'm used to getting a lot out of watching the wardrobe and props and suchlike.
Watching Highlander with the same degree of attention is just... painful and distracting. All you learn is they really believe in recycling. I mean there's one pair of earrings that have been worn by every blonde woman in the series so far. And 'Revenge of the Sword' has one room made up with one wall from the antiques shop and another from the 'temple' set from... the one with the distilled root making guys into super soldiers briefly. In Buffy if they reuse a statue, especially a religious one like the Janus head, it means something. In Highlander it means they had a great big wall o Buddha in storage somewhere.
I know everyone has to optimise their use of money, but it feels strange on account of being different.
Recycling actors is also odd. I mean I know canada has about a dozen and they wear false noses a lot ( ;) ) but you have to really pay attention to decide if its a returning character or just a returning actor. And sometimes it just looks cheap and wrong, like if anyone who was ever in the credits comes back in the spinoff as someone else, or the guys that were central to more than one ep. Sometimes it works, but it looks so odd.
Also tiresome are the flashbacks that last five minutes and are straight out of previous episodes. Good way to stretch the episode, get value out of older work. But also, been there, seen that.
/rant
I love Highlander, but the version in my head is the distilled version. The one on the screen has all the flaws put back in :(
And also Amanda. And Duncan with no shirt on. And Richie. And, eventually, Methos. So that works out.
Watching Highlander with the same degree of attention is just... painful and distracting. All you learn is they really believe in recycling. I mean there's one pair of earrings that have been worn by every blonde woman in the series so far. And 'Revenge of the Sword' has one room made up with one wall from the antiques shop and another from the 'temple' set from... the one with the distilled root making guys into super soldiers briefly. In Buffy if they reuse a statue, especially a religious one like the Janus head, it means something. In Highlander it means they had a great big wall o Buddha in storage somewhere.
I know everyone has to optimise their use of money, but it feels strange on account of being different.
Recycling actors is also odd. I mean I know canada has about a dozen and they wear false noses a lot ( ;) ) but you have to really pay attention to decide if its a returning character or just a returning actor. And sometimes it just looks cheap and wrong, like if anyone who was ever in the credits comes back in the spinoff as someone else, or the guys that were central to more than one ep. Sometimes it works, but it looks so odd.
Also tiresome are the flashbacks that last five minutes and are straight out of previous episodes. Good way to stretch the episode, get value out of older work. But also, been there, seen that.
/rant
I love Highlander, but the version in my head is the distilled version. The one on the screen has all the flaws put back in :(
And also Amanda. And Duncan with no shirt on. And Richie. And, eventually, Methos. So that works out.
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Heh.
Date: 2006-01-17 12:03 pm (UTC)Nicely put. Of course, for me it's slightly different as I never really could look beyond the flaws in the first place. I love the *idea* of HL, and I love the fanfiction universe(s), but the show? Not so much. Some characters, yes, some concepts. But, not really the show. A shame, really, because it had a lot of potential.
Speaking of recycling. Duncan, Methos and Joe 'share' jumpers a lot. If you're into slash you can read all kinds of things into that. I'm not so much into slash, but the observation amuses me, nevertheless. *g*