About George Thompson
Location: Missouri
Occupation: Writer
Bio: Bio I was born in the small town of Ironton, Missouri in the mid-40s. My father was a minister and my mother was the devoted pastor’s wife. We moved when I was three to Kansas City where Dad pastored several churches, then moved to Fulton in 1960 where I graduated from Fulton High School in 1962. Dad was pastor at the Southside Baptist Church from 1960 through 1967. It was during those teenage years that I started writing poetry, articles, short stories and novels. Many poems were of a “grim” nature because I was usually either frustrated or felt depressed when I wrote them. Further in-depth study of myself helped me to see matters in a different, more enlightened way and gave me a much greater peace Bio of mind. That feeling came about when I realized that a Higher Power held control over my life and although I felt free here on earth to explore many things because God gave me the mind to make my own decisions based on the “terms” I had set for myself it was I who set the terms and levels of frustration and worry. Once I turned everything over to God, my writings became more positive and that feeling of emptiness I once had was lifted. My faith in God and the good intentions of mankind grows daily. I believe in the power of words, whether they are written, spoken or through the motions and spelling in sign language. They can be used to empower or defeat, accept or deny. My poetry is just one of many means of communicating. Retired now, I make my home in Ironton once again after being gone for sixty years. I write a poem every day, an article or two a week and have a continuing column at wickedwordsmith.com on the Web. My pleasures are writing, feeding birds and taking care of my new cat, Mandi.
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A new beginning.
Highlander: The Source has been described as a fresh start. Not a new beginning, but a fresh start. From the looks of it, that’s exactly what we have here. Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander (Adrian Paul), still leads the clan, but this time they are searching for their immortality. They must search the world for it to find The Source which is being held by The Guardian (Christian Solimeno) who will protect The Source against all who try to get to it. No one has any idea what The Source is or where it is located on the earth. Only The Guardian knows and he’s not talking. He grumbles and wants to fight.
The Guardian is a mean character that is half hulk and half human. There’s less human to him than there is hulk. If you want sword fights and battles, this is the right DVD to watch. Duncan does meet his love Anna (Thekla Reuten) and she reminds him that when the planets align, the long foretold “prophecy” will come true. They search further as they watch the planets come closer together and feel they are nearer the answer for which they have been searching. The Guardian is always one step ahead of them and torments the clan with his menacing trickery and thick-headed logic. As the planets align themselves, all becomes quiet and Anna is drawn into an aura of light. Duncan is in awe at first, then follows her into the aura and they both learn what The Source is.
The special features included on the DVD are: Highlander the Process – Behind the Scenes, A Tribute to Bill Panzer, Storyboard-to-Scene comparisons, Highlander Video Game Sneak Peak.
There were parts of Highlander that looked like they were computer generated including the actors. A certain sheen to the faces that I noticed in the trailers for Beowulf. I didn’t find the action as exciting as pervious Highlander episodes and Adrian Paul just did not seem interested in his part in the entire mechanism of making a film. Even in the behind the scenes shots, Adrian Paul seemed totally out of step with the rehearsals and comradeship one would expect to see take place when the camera is not rolling. I’ll keep it on my shelf, but this is one DVD that I won’t pull out all that often to watch.
