sholio | Highlander through the end of season four

4x20 - Til Death

ahahahaha, LOLing forever. THIS SHOW. OH THIS SHOW.

4x21 - Judgment Day

eeeeee, show! Thus far this season, we've had an "everybody saves Duncan!" episode, and an "everybody saves Methos!" episode and now we get an "everybody saves Joe!" episode. Er, sorta ...

I actually said "Oh shit, NO!" out loud at the end there, because this show DOES kill characters (a lot! quite often unexpectedly!), and I hadn't actually realized until they brought Joe out to the execution grounds that I actually have no idea if Joe lives 'til the end of the series. *makes little squeaky hyperventilating sounds and rushes off to next episode*

4x22 - One Minute to Midnight

EEEEE NOT DEAD YAY!

*snort* There's an unintentionally funny bit in this episode where Duncan goes into one of his ten-minute flashbacks, and when he comes out of it, the guy he's watching is gone! I cracked up, I must admit. Maybe you should keep your mind on what you're doing, Duncan.

Wow, this show is dark sometimes. But ... I like it? I know I've expressed qualms in the past about the show and (certain) characters maybe going too dark for me, but I don't really think that's going to happen, because I really like how they handle it -- with sympathy for all sides, and no tendency to pull punches. In a different show with a lighter tone, or a show more prone to avoiding the hard consequences of the characters' actions, I think it's something I might struggle with more. But it's just the way this show is -- it gets really black sometimes, and all the characters are capable of doing pretty dark things as they're pushed and pulled by conflicting loyalties, and that's one of the things I like about it. So yeah, not worried really. If I was going to bail, I would've bailed a long time ago. *g*

Edit: Actually, thinking more about this, I think one of the reasons I love this show so much is because I have a hardcore fiction kink for stories about people clinging to moments of happiness and light in a world of corruption and darkness, and this show has really been hitting that kink hard. The sweet moments aren't as sweet if they're not bought at the cost of tragedy and pain. I love those moments when the characters are really truly happy and yet there's no way it can possibly last because there are too many factors conspiring against it. But they're happy now and that's what matters. Wiseguy was another show that really hit that kink hard, and that's probably why it's the closest I've come in the last few years to falling into another major fandom (if there had actually been a fandom for it, which there wasn't).