Drive-by squailing

[sholio]

... for Highlander 4x11, because some things just can't wait for a roundup post. So, flailing commencing NOW!

METHOS HITTING ON THE WAITRESS OMG. So much fail and yet, quite possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen in my LIFE. "Cute! I can do cute!" YES, METHOS, YES YOU CAN. TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN. I am so very amused that even after 5000 years he's so utterly lacking in suave. But ... THE EPIC ADORKABLENESS! And then sudden 180 degree turn into HEART STOMPING. Oh Methos. Oh show. :(

haha, also, Duncan is hysterical in this one. Adrian Paul is so good at doing the comedy stuff; his facial expressions, heeeeee!

After the waitress's mortality came up, the thought had already crossed my mind even before the show made it textual that everyone mortal is on the verge of death to someone Methos's age. (Or any of the immortals, really, but especially him.) They're all brief candles and it makes perfect sense that it doesn't matter to him how much time someone has left. He's just had to learn to deal with it. And he still loves them anyway, and oh, Methos.

Random side note, pertaining to the Buddhist monastery: something I've loved since the first episode is that holy ground is completely non-denominational in this show. It would have been really easy for the writers not even to think about it and just default to churches=safety, but they've never gone that route, even in the first episode. I really love that.

And Claudia's choice not to learn to swordfight, and her reasons for it -- I really loved that too! I really enjoyed the Claudia plot and I adored the Methos plot and I loved the way they dovetailed together. This episode was made of WIN. And if I hadn't already fallen about as hard for Methos as it is possible to fall, this would have clinched it. He's just ... I can't get over what a wonderful character, a wonderful person he is. There is probably a lot of serious meta-ing to be done about mortality and living and enjoying life and all those interesting issues that this episode raised, but I am totally stuck on the ADORABLE and the SQUEE and the sheer ;alksdjfalsdkjfpalsdkjf;asdkg;ad KEYMASH of it all.

My love for this show has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last couple of seasons, but this episode? This was where I hit the SQUAIL** point.

**Squee+flail, greyias's coinage. It's what happens when SQUEE and FLAIL is just not adequate!

Comments

[scrollgirl]

How much did you love Duncan playing Kate in Taming of the Shrew?? Hee! This show does some really fantastic comedy, doesn't it. "He gave you my job because you're younger and prettier!" Duncan pouting because Walter won't let him do the sword-fights.

FYI, this isn't a spoiler so much as a DVD extra, but in the loft scene when Methos talks about meeting someone and feeling that spark, and Duncan looks over at Claudia on the couch with a fond look, what was supposed to have happened, and I think the editors failed to make happen, was a brief flashback of Tessa. So if you were confused by Duncan suddenly equating Claudia with "love at first sight", that's the explanation.

[sholio]

Ohhhh yes, the "Taming of the Shrew" flashbacks were hilarious. Duncan, you GIANT DORK. *squishes him* This show does great comedy! And pretty spot-on tragedy, too -- sometimes in the same episode, like this one. OH SHOW.

And thank you for the explanation of the loft scene! That makes so much more sense than what we actually got in the episode. :D It didn't really strike me as off because we did already know that he'd been friends with her for a long time, so I was just taking it in a more generic sense, but it makes a lot more sense with Tessa in there.

[pat_t]

Oh yeah. If you watch it again look for it because Duncan has this sad and kind of dreamy look on his face and then they cut to Claudia. But they really had a montage of Tessa but the episode ran long and they cut it out.

[mackiedockie]

It's interesting to watch the different friendship dynamic between Joe and Methos (especially when compared to Joe and Mac.) They fall in together like they've been friends for generations. Methos snaps at Joe ('You're all dying!")...and Joe just rides it out. He _had_ figured that out.

[sholio]

*squees*

I do think they've known each other for years, though? Joe knew him as Adam for some time, even before he know that "Adam" was Immortal. It's nothing compared to the number of years that Immortals can be friends, but they still have a friendship going back a ways, even if it wasn't entirely honest.

But, yeah, I adored that scene. One of the things I love about having Joe on the show is that he understands a lot more of what the Immortals go through than most regular mortals do. His friendships with Duncan and with Methos are such a gorgeous example of meeting another human being over the chasm of difference, because they are separated by so much, and yet they like and understand each other in spite of it.

[mackiedockie]

Canon is surprisingly thin on Joe and Adam's history. However, since both Joe and Methos were good friends with Don Saltzer, and shared the bibliophilic connection at Shakespeare and Co., there's a lot of indirect evidence they'd known (or at least known of) each other for some years. And when they approach the barge together in Finale in season three, they are bickering like an old married couple *g*.

[weesam]

You don't know me but I thought I'd just drop in and say hi. I've been reading your posts and enjoying them. I have recently lost almost all my breakable possessions, and among the few things which survived were my TV, DVD player and my Highlander DVD's so I have been sitting at home rewatching them, and am up to around the same place you are.

I love this episode. One of my all time favourites. Methos and Duncan are just so cute in it. My favourite scene is Methos sitting in the rain listening to music. What's up with that? Who sits in a park in the rain? It's just so odd and quirky it made me really love him. I really loved that whole conversation with Alexa, "it's my nose". "No you have a lovely nose". Ah, I want to trade places with her.

[sholio]

Hi, and welcome! :) I'm glad you're enjoying my posts (and jeez, the rest of your stuff, oh my god, that sounds awful *sends much sympathy*).

But, yeah, Timeless ... d'awwww. Totally pushed my buttons.