More random HL thoughts up to the end of Season 3

[sholio]

Oh, Richie, don't leave again. >_< But once again, I love the slow, inexorable pace of change in this show, and the continuity! They don't just abandon or drop stuff; things that happen in one episode bleed over into the next, and nothing stays the same.

Duncan's rental space full of all his stuff ... OHHHHH! That makes so much sense! I'd vaguely wondered how he keeps all his old stuff while he moves around like he does.

And then the aptly-named finale ...

Methos is still a Watcher! hahahahaha *dies*. Joe, when it comes to consorting with Immortals, you are the worst Watcher EVER. But also the most awesome. (Also, good one, Methos! Because, when you work for a TOP SECRET ORGANIZATION, neatly compiling its information all in one place is an AWESOME idea. Though I do find it rather interesting -- and, yes, adorable -- that Methos's approach to immortality is rather the same as Duncan's: change, adapt, learn ALL the things!)

Also, Amanda? ROCK ON. Okay, yes, freeing Kalas and then failing to immediately kill him was another high-caliber mistake (sneak up behind him and lop off his head, Amanda, you dink ... or is that against their code?) but she really tried to clean up the mess she'd made, and did a pretty credible job of un-damsel-in-distressing herself.

Also ... Joe, wow. I wondered how far he'd go to protect the Watchers' secret. That was dark. *loves*

"He didn't save her. He saved you." *squeakyflail*

Moving on to PART DEUX! First off, AMANDA LIVED, SQUEEEEE! (I was quite worried at a few points.)

You know, in the end, Kalas's Ultimate Revenge(TM) seemed kind of ... anticlimactic. After all the threatening of Duncan's friends and so forth, I was hoping to get a little bit more "friends in mortal peril" out of the whole thing! But we got good scenes with pretty much everybody, so I am a happy little fangirl anyway.

Also, Eiffel Tower as giant Quickening lightning rod .... HAHAHAHA. That is about two parts awesome to one part ridiculous. But I literally laughed out loud in delight when I realized what Duncan's plan was. Good thing no one in Paris noticed the giant electrical storm that fried all the computers, though, eh?

Comments

[telesilla]

You're really making me want to do a rewatch. I started watching after a friend gave me all her old VHS episodes because she'd bought the DVDs, but never actually finished the series. I may need to do that now. :)

Oooops...dunno how duplicate comments happened.

[sholio]

Hee! I'm glad to be an enabler! :) I'm really enjoying it.

[auburn]

Am convinced Highlander is in a universe with considerably more 'lively' weather than ours -- or people just think so, thanks to all those 'lightning' storms. It's probably impeded the progress of physics and meteorology for centuries.

[sholio]

hahahaha ... maybe the presence of Immortals would explain the police apathy as well: getting decapitated is a known hazard in their world. It hardly even makes the papers anymore.

[scrollgirl]

I love the scene where Duncan walks into the Watchers Headquarters to talk to Joe and everyone just stops and stares. And Joe's all, "Yeah, it's Duncan MacLeod, stop rubbernecking already."

I do wish the show would let Amanda be better with the sword, but I guess it just highlights that Duncan and the aggressive Immortals who challenge him (like Kalas, who is considered one of the best) really are in a class of their own. And that surviving isn't all about swordsmanship, or else Amanda and Methos wouldn't be as old as they are.

(sneak up behind him and lop off his head, Amanda, you dink ... or is that against their code?)

Yeah, it's pretty much against their code. I think we see a few Immortals go against it, like Kenny sneaking up on the "adult" Immortals who take him in, but in general it's supposed to be honourable combat. The fact that Kalas didn't even have a sword when Amanda attacked him shows that she was willing to bend the rules for Duncan.

Methos's approach to immortality is rather the same as Duncan's: change, adapt, learn ALL the things!

YES. I love that so much! He needs to learn better database security, but hey, he knew computers were the future.

[sholio]

Oh, that scene in Watcher HQ was fantastic. :D You're crazy, Joe, but you're awesome.

And yeah, I gather that Amanda has survived mostly by using her wits over the years. She can fight, but it's not her main strength. I think I'd be more frustrated by her lack of fighting prowess if we hadn't seen occasional female Immortals who are more fighting-focused over the course of the show; as it is, it doesn't feel so much like it's a sexism thing as an Amanda thing -- she's just not the Duncan sort of person who enjoys training for twelve hours a day.

I was oddly pleased that the computer Maguffin was a CD instead of the ever-popular floppy disk or microchip! And Methos's adaptability makes me very happy, as Duncan's does.

[zillah975]

The Quickenings are hilarious. Omg. And I always wonder who cleans up all the headless bodies -- the Watchers, maybe? Idk, but wow, there sure are a mess of beheadings along with those freak lightning storms....

You're making me want to do a re-watch too.

[sholio]

The Quickenings SLAY ME (er, so to speak). They're so over-the-top and ridiculous -- and increasingly out of place in the show as it gets more serious and character-focused. And yet I'm always curious what they're going to try to do to top the last one. I would say that there's no way they could do something bigger than blowing up the Paris power grid, but there are still three seasons to go, and I doubt if their pyrotechnics budget is going to be any smaller in upcoming seasons. *g*