Visual Accoutrements and Accessories
This is stuff around the show, but not the show itself. If you're a Reddit nerd, this is what you're looking for. If you're a Tumblr geek, let me escort you back to your natural habitat.
Is this cool? Yes. I'll link to it elsewhere if it spawns some ideas for me. But some of it I can't interact with, 'cause of my fully self-imposed "No spoilers on what the actors are like" rule. I learned that with Maroon 5. It was one of my favourite bands through elementary and high school (shut up), and I made it all the way through university without knowing what the main guy looked like, since I don't watch music videos. And then The fucking Voice aired and I couldn't get away from the ads. Why'd I avoid it? Wasn't actively trying. But since I happened to never encounter Adam Levine's face before that, it freed me up to picture Daffy Duck. I was having a great time. I love Daffy Duck.
So it's the same deal here: as badly curious as I am about whether that's Vincent Walsh's real hair, I do not want to spoil the fun of guessing by having a bonus feature show me what he looked like out of costume. I CAN FIGURE IT OUT LIKE A BIG GIRL, and the only other way I'm willing to hear the answer now is if the guy himself emails me saying, "Yeah, that was my hair. (or was it? why would they pay for a wig? that was obviously lochlann o'mearain's hair, so why not hire another guy with long hair? but the actress for maeve almost definitely had a wig, so obviously they were riding the wig train, and his hair looked the same on the first episode and the last while lochlann o'mearain had some sort of lion's mane thing happening, but maybe vincent walsh just got it cut more often I DEMAND TO LIVE IN A PLAUSIBLE IT-COULD-GO-EITHER-WAY)"
(i'll get to it eventually, i'm not a weirdo, i'm just having fun seeing how long i can dodge learning facts :D)
Anyway! Here's the stuff the folks on /r/MysticKnights were so incredible at finding.
Interview with Joel Barkow
Awesome article interviewing one of the original writers for the show. :D He talks about some the early plans they had for season two, and most importantly reveals that there'd only been an order for fifteen episodes. I've got thoughts on that, so I'll put them together eventually.
Dan's Toku Rants
Kitty's the best. I don't know how she finds this stuff. She says she's really good at searching for it online, but she has yet to teach me her magical ways. :P
She also explains it best on the subreddit, but the tl;dr is that this is a link to a Google Drive with a series of interviews, and episode 245 was with Robert Hughes (the show's producer), and 288 was with Lochlann O'Mearain (the man, the myth, the potato butcherer).
Now someday, when I have more time, I'm gonna relisten to the one with Robert Hughes, 'cause there was a lot of eye-(ear?)-opening details and nuggets fed to us.
As for the one with Lochlann O'Mearain? Nope. Tell me if it's got anything good, and if someone wants to write me a transcript, I'll read it, but this is Daffy-Duck-as-Adam-Levine territory. LET'S SEE HOW LONG WE CAN GO!
I've got both downloaded, though, as a back-up. :3
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog - A Legend in the Making (Behind the Scenes)
I feel like everyone's pretty much seen this, since it comes with the Mystic Knights Restoration Project file and it's on YouTube, but Kitty posted it to the sub, so I'm happy to give her a shout-out for it. :D
Everyone except me, 'cause it's another Daffy-Duck-Do-Not-Cross line. >:(
Anyway, I think it's a twenty-three minute featurette of how they made the show. It apparently aired before the show itself started! Which - like, dick move, FoxKids, ruining the magic right out of the gate. But it's definitely something you'd wanna put on a home release DVD - if they had one.
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Electronic Press Kit - Part 1/2
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Electronic Press Kit - Part 2/2
Another Daffy Duck line, but HOLY SHIT, I have no idea how Kitty found this at all! According to her post, this was separate from the behind-the-scenes featurette, and it wasn't originally supposed to be public! The uploader on YouTube says the show's under Disney, btw, so who knows? Maybe it is! Anyway - this has more interviews with the cast. :D Super cool! I would assume! You tell me!
The Magazines
Fox Kids Magazine - Fall 1998
Fox Kids Magazine - Winter 1998 and Spring 1999
Fox Kids Magazine - Summer 1999
This is beyond just giving credit to ScaryKitty. These are actually from her own personal, physical collection! I have no idea how she got them - other than, I'm assuming, the old fashioned way of buying them when they came out. :D Which blows me away even more, because holy shit, she kept them!! And they're in such gorgeous, clear quality!
What an absolute set of treasures. These are pics I haven't seen anywhere else, so without these scans, they're basically lost to time forever. Kitty is a beast and I am thrilled by that. What an absolute MVP, and so generous to have shared this!