"Reunion" is S6E14 now?

[brightknightie]

Reunion is now available as "Episode 14" of HL's Season 6 on Amazon streaming. It's there at the end as if the coda it provides is an integral part of canon. The only oddity is that it has no thumbnail of its own; its thumbnail is an image of the packaging of the Season 6 DVD box.

I don't know when this happened. I've owned all the seasons on Amazon streaming for years, but I have frankly never once before looked at the end of Season 6 there. The last time I needed something from Season 6, I got it from my DVDs.

(For those who don't know, Reunion was a straight-to-DVD project, a mini-movie featuring Joe, Methos, and Amanda, filmed and set ten years after canon.)

I'd never personally considered it part of canon, as such, but it is now clearly being presented as part of canon. If only to buff the salability of the season with more run-time?

Comments

[sholio]

Oh wow! Yeah, back when I watched the series circa 2009-ish, the only way to get it was to have someone hook you up with a download; it was very much outside the main continuity. That's really neat.

[brightknightie]

I bought the DVD when it first came out.

I don't remember from where, though. Was this so long ago that they still had the snail-mail catalogue of their merch, or was this from their website...? I do not remember.

They were very serious salespeople, back in the day. I remember arguing, once, with a salesman who called me trying to get me to buy their display swords; I told him, what I wanted was more stories, not more stuff.

[batdina]

I do not believe I've ever seen Reunion. Should I bother? I tend to stop caring seriously about HL at the end of season 4, or at the very least immediately pre-Horse-stupid.

[brightknightie]

This may be hard to explain, and is definitely peculiar, but while I own the Reunion DVD, I have never yet watched it. I could watch it now -- there's that movie The Source (which I also own but have never watched) to take its place as never-seen HL anchor -- and in fact I'm newly thinking of doing so in preparation for this year's story, if it is now canonized, but...

I discovered both HL and FK after they had begun. HL in its second season, FK its third. So I experienced them with this knowledge that there was canon that I didn't know. When eventually in '96 the HL reruns came to USA and I caught up on every past HL episode I hadn't seen, I felt ... even though there was new canon yet coming ... like I had lost something. That it was somehow diminished. It was acute enough so that in '97 when it got down to the last 2 episodes of FK that I had never seen, I decided to ... save one. To this day, there is an episode of FK that I have never watched through. There is canon I do not know! It could be anything! I can only speculate! I imagine that this hole in my FK experience keeps something awake that might fall asleep without it.

As a side-effect, I discovered, once, at a bad time, that if ever I am plagued by despair, these never-seen pieces of favorite stories are a strong bargaining chip against it. Gotta watch that episode of FK first. Gotta see that HL movie first.

And so I started hoarding up bits of precious new-to-me canon here and there for various authors and fandoms, partly to avoid that feeling of loss that catching up in HL had brought, and partly just in case of extreme emotional emergency.

I don't recall how exactly Reunion got into that position. But there is has been. All this time.

The Source can hold the HL fort. I can watch Reunion. Maybe I will.

[raine]

It’s cute if you like watching Amanda, Methos, and Joe together. It was filmed in Peter Winfield’s house. It’s basically a post-credits kind of mini-episode.

[raine]

So weird! But also vaguely cool in that it's no longer a random YouTube video.

[brightknightie]

I bought the DVD of it when it first came out, but I seem to have no actual memory of the buying -- how did I learn of it? from where did I order it? I have no idea! But I have the DVD. :-)

I was one of the people who got their paper snail-mail catalogue for years and years, and had an account on their official site / merch store, so...

[raine]

I know I watched it online because I didn't have the money to buy the DVD from the catalogue - I think it came out around the time I was still scraping together money to stay in Seacouver, I mean Seattle. ;-)

[malinaldarose]

Well, now I guess I know how I'm going to christen my new Fire tablet....

[jotribe2]

That's really strange. I know I saw it, but really don't remember it at all, other than to think it was kinda like mild fanfic. It's fun to think I can watch it on prime as a coda to the show.

[jotribe2]

I forgot to say, that I think the beach house was Panzer's. And it actually had a stripper pole in the bedroom. Ewww.

[brightknightie]

Thank you for the trivia! I'm surprised that specific household feature was not... left on the cutting-room floor.

[elistaire]

Interesting! I haven't seen it through, only a few clips. I remember being at a con after it was filmed and coming/came out, and everyone was excited. But it felt...sad...to me somehow and I didn't want to watch it. Maybe now I will. I'm not sure yet. But I don't think I'd consider it canon. But I play loose-goosey with canon, so I'm the last one to talk about it!

[brightknightie]

I've been holding it unwatched all these years, for the feeling of looking forward to it yet, if that makes any sense. I'll watch it one of these days, yet I suspect that it may yield me more total joy as an unknown to anticipate through the years; I'm very afraid there will be exactly that sadness you mention on its other side.