Highla-l mailing list archive, 2001-2006 http://www.highlander.org/lists/ (This was waaaaay late in the life of the list) The bit of that page that says "Due to the high volume of mail on this list, you may want to send an email to the above email address with "SET HIGHLA-L DIGEST" so that you get 2-4 emails/day instead of 80." ... yeah, no, not this century. *sigh*
there were also yahoogroups, I was on a few Richie (or Richie/Methos) focused ones, don't know if they're even archived now because they didn't start out as yahoogroups but got bought up and passed along. oh found http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=highlander lots of Highlander stuff, can be narrowed by character.
most of the websites I know about were on geocities or other completely closed places. webrings were the big way of finding them.
Fandom seemed to me very split by character. Flag waving for a specific character was strongly expected.
What Highlander Is About and hence how we watch it was another split. There's fans who think it's about the sword fight and who wins. There's fans who think it's about love through the centuries. And there's fans who agree with David Abramowitz that it is Talmudic Discussion With Swords. This page has it as "A romantic Talmudic discussion with ass-kicking", which covers all the bases. "They're Talmudic questions. How long do you have to keep a promise? What is the difference between honor and vanity? Is morality and justice fixed by time, or only in time and place, or does it exist, the same morality - true morality; and true justice. Justice, does it exist in the seventeenth century and that it's the same in the twentieth century. Those kinds of questions. They were great fun to write about."
Fighting over the big ideas was where the stories lived. They made some good discussion and some good (heavily researched with footnotes sometimes) fic. Where it all is now... not so easy.
It's been ages since I rewatched Highlander. it's in my head as The Good Bits Version and I'm happy that way.
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The Official Hypertext Highlander FAQ File
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Highla-l mailing list archive, 2001-2006
http://www.highlander.org/lists/
(This was waaaaay late in the life of the list)
The bit of that page that says "Due to the high volume of mail on this list, you may want to send an email to the above email address with "SET HIGHLA-L DIGEST" so that you get 2-4 emails/day instead of 80."
... yeah, no, not this century. *sigh*
there were also yahoogroups, I was on a few Richie (or Richie/Methos) focused ones, don't know if they're even archived now because they didn't start out as yahoogroups but got bought up and passed along.
oh found
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=highlander
lots of Highlander stuff, can be narrowed by character.
fanfic was archived on Seventh Dimension or the HLX adult archive
(mailing lists list)
most of the websites I know about were on geocities or other completely closed places. webrings were the big way of finding them.
Fandom seemed to me very split by character. Flag waving for a specific character was strongly expected.
What Highlander Is About and hence how we watch it was another split. There's fans who think it's about the sword fight and who wins. There's fans who think it's about love through the centuries. And there's fans who agree with David Abramowitz that it is Talmudic Discussion With Swords. This page has it as "A romantic Talmudic discussion with ass-kicking", which covers all the bases. "They're Talmudic questions. How long do you have to keep a promise? What is the difference between honor and vanity? Is morality and justice fixed by time, or only in time and place, or does it exist, the same morality - true morality; and true justice. Justice, does it exist in the seventeenth century and that it's the same in the twentieth century. Those kinds of questions. They were great fun to write about."
Fighting over the big ideas was where the stories lived. They made some good discussion and some good (heavily researched with footnotes sometimes) fic. Where it all is now... not so easy.
It's been ages since I rewatched Highlander. it's in my head as The Good Bits Version and I'm happy that way.