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Highlander 4x05-4x07
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4x05 - Double Eagle
Oh my god I love caper stories, and that episode made me laugh so hard. The actors were obviously having so much fun with the comedy of errors stuff. Duncan's FACE, and the running joke with Richie turning up, and awww, Amanda, just a big softy deep down. (I guessed way in advance that the casino was going to burn down, because it was the only way I could think of that they could both end up that furious at each other with no one really being at fault ...!)
4x06 - Reunion
... oh wow. I wasn't expecting Amanda's history with Kenny at all!
I absolutely love this show's approach to immortality. Because the idea that someone would be completely static and unchanging for 500 years or 1000 years, as a lot of fiction treats its long-lived characters, is stupid. No one stays the same for one 80-year lifespan, so why should it be true of a 1000-year lifespan? My first reaction to finding out that Amanda and Kenny were friends was "....WHUT", but Kenny wasn't the Kenny we know when she met him. He became that person by having to survive in a vicious and dangerous world.
And I'm continually impressed by how willing the show is to go to the darkest places, not in a sensationalistic way but in a way that makes sense for the world they've set up -- in this case, Kenny's infatuation with Amanda was a logical step (he's 800, after all!) but I was really surprised that the show was willing to go ahead and make it textual.
Also? I really adore smirky!Duncan. :D
And Anne and Amanda making friends -- heeheeheeheeHEEEEE! Oh show! For a show with a nearly all-male cast, Highlander is actually more Bechdel-passing and better with the overall gender dynamic than a lot of shows with a lot more women in their main cast.
But I'm wondering what happened to Duncan's fixer-upper house during this whole part of the series, since he and Amanda seem to be living at the dojo. It feels like a continuity error, though perhaps the renovations are still going on somewhere off-camera.
4x07 - The Colonel
"Let's picture two gravestones. One says 'He lived by the rules.' The other says 'He was a good friend.' Which one do you want?"
About all I've got for this episode is OH MY SHOWWWWWWW. I love Duncan and Joe, and Duncan and Amanda, and Amanda and Joe ... I pretty much just love them all so much.
I'm not sure which makes me happier -- that the whole episode was pretty much about Amanda trying to get Joe and Duncan to reconcile, or that it WORKED. (Like Duncan said, it's hard to argue with Amanda!) And I love SO MUCH that they gave us a whole episode devoted to resolving the rift in their friendship, rather than just having it as a throwaway bit somewhere else (or, heaven forbid, not doing it at all).
scrollgirl. :)4x05 - Double Eagle
Oh my god I love caper stories, and that episode made me laugh so hard. The actors were obviously having so much fun with the comedy of errors stuff. Duncan's FACE, and the running joke with Richie turning up, and awww, Amanda, just a big softy deep down. (I guessed way in advance that the casino was going to burn down, because it was the only way I could think of that they could both end up that furious at each other with no one really being at fault ...!)
4x06 - Reunion
... oh wow. I wasn't expecting Amanda's history with Kenny at all!
I absolutely love this show's approach to immortality. Because the idea that someone would be completely static and unchanging for 500 years or 1000 years, as a lot of fiction treats its long-lived characters, is stupid. No one stays the same for one 80-year lifespan, so why should it be true of a 1000-year lifespan? My first reaction to finding out that Amanda and Kenny were friends was "....WHUT", but Kenny wasn't the Kenny we know when she met him. He became that person by having to survive in a vicious and dangerous world.
And I'm continually impressed by how willing the show is to go to the darkest places, not in a sensationalistic way but in a way that makes sense for the world they've set up -- in this case, Kenny's infatuation with Amanda was a logical step (he's 800, after all!) but I was really surprised that the show was willing to go ahead and make it textual.
Also? I really adore smirky!Duncan. :D
And Anne and Amanda making friends -- heeheeheeheeHEEEEE! Oh show! For a show with a nearly all-male cast, Highlander is actually more Bechdel-passing and better with the overall gender dynamic than a lot of shows with a lot more women in their main cast.
But I'm wondering what happened to Duncan's fixer-upper house during this whole part of the series, since he and Amanda seem to be living at the dojo. It feels like a continuity error, though perhaps the renovations are still going on somewhere off-camera.
4x07 - The Colonel
"Let's picture two gravestones. One says 'He lived by the rules.' The other says 'He was a good friend.' Which one do you want?"
About all I've got for this episode is OH MY SHOWWWWWWW. I love Duncan and Joe, and Duncan and Amanda, and Amanda and Joe ... I pretty much just love them all so much.
I'm not sure which makes me happier -- that the whole episode was pretty much about Amanda trying to get Joe and Duncan to reconcile, or that it WORKED. (Like Duncan said, it's hard to argue with Amanda!) And I love SO MUCH that they gave us a whole episode devoted to resolving the rift in their friendship, rather than just having it as a throwaway bit somewhere else (or, heaven forbid, not doing it at all).
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