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Highlander - up to 2x20 (Pharoah's Daughter)
I'm, um, tearing through the series at an alarming rate. (It makes great background accompaniment for some of my other tasks. At least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. *g*)
The scene with Dawson and Duncan at the end of the (otherwise quite silly) vampire episode, where Dawson asks him out for a drink? OH BOYS. SO CUTE. :D :D :D Possibly my favorite scene with them to date.
and hahahaha I love little medieval!Amanda and the dramatic change in her over the centuries.
"But first ... a bath."
"You mean with WATER?"
Actually I get a major kick out of barbarian!Duncan as well. Apropos of the earlier Scotland flashbacks, I'm pretty sure that circa 1600, the Highlands of Scotland were more like lots of small villages of farmers than lots of barbarians wearing furs. Duncan's past looks a lot more like Scotland in, say, 700 A.D. or something. But young!Duncan is so very innocent and cute.
I found the midpart of this season rather slow going, but starting towards the end of the last batch of episodes, I got hooked again. I don't know if the season picks up and gets better towards the end, or if I just needed some time to adjust to Duncan's new post-Tessa circumstances, but it's grabbed me hard again. Awwwwww, Richie's back, and he and Duncan have patched things up most adorably -- or, perhaps, worked their way to a more adult and equal relationship than they used to have. Anyway, drinking on the bridge -- awww!
The quickenings are getting hilariously pyrotechnic. CHEEEEESE! Also, the Egypt episode ... as much as I love the idea of a "time capsule" Immortal, my disbelief was not only suspended but hung by the neck until dead. I can accept the characters in various historical periods (or France, today) speaking "English" because I presume that the viewpoint character -- Duncan -- is understanding and answering them in their own language, as are other characters around them: it's a narrative convention for convenience's sake, but one that doesn't stretch credibility too much. But clearly there's no way that Duncan or other characters are understanding and speaking whatever she's speaking -- Ancient Egyptian, Latin, Greek, whatever was spoken in the Egypt of Cleopatra's era. Heee, as a history buff, this show makes me want to write fanfic just to fix the historical stuff! (I just about broke my brain trying to figure out where Rebecca and Amanda were supposed to be from.)
Beyond that, the Egypt episode really made me wonder about the role of food and water for Immortals. We've seen them eat and drink like anyone else, but logically they'd have to be able to survive starvation or they wouldn't be, well, immortal. So how does starvation affect them? Do they suffer hunger pains? Lose weight? When they eat, do they metabolize food normally?
These are probably the sort of questions that we're not supposed to wonder about.
Speaking of things we're probably not supposed to wonder about, her people must have mummified her, right? So did she have to regrow not just all her organs but her BRAIN? Was she aware of any of that happening? Ew.
On the other hand, just relaxing and going with the flow and trying very hard not to think much, it was a rather fun episode.
"Where are the horses?"
"They're under there. *points to hood; she looks skeptical* They're real tiny."
Anyway, all we have left is the season finale, and then it's onwards to season 3!
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The scene with Dawson and Duncan at the end of the (otherwise quite silly) vampire episode, where Dawson asks him out for a drink? OH BOYS. SO CUTE. :D :D :D Possibly my favorite scene with them to date.
and hahahaha I love little medieval!Amanda and the dramatic change in her over the centuries.
"But first ... a bath."
"You mean with WATER?"
Actually I get a major kick out of barbarian!Duncan as well. Apropos of the earlier Scotland flashbacks, I'm pretty sure that circa 1600, the Highlands of Scotland were more like lots of small villages of farmers than lots of barbarians wearing furs. Duncan's past looks a lot more like Scotland in, say, 700 A.D. or something. But young!Duncan is so very innocent and cute.
I found the midpart of this season rather slow going, but starting towards the end of the last batch of episodes, I got hooked again. I don't know if the season picks up and gets better towards the end, or if I just needed some time to adjust to Duncan's new post-Tessa circumstances, but it's grabbed me hard again. Awwwwww, Richie's back, and he and Duncan have patched things up most adorably -- or, perhaps, worked their way to a more adult and equal relationship than they used to have. Anyway, drinking on the bridge -- awww!
The quickenings are getting hilariously pyrotechnic. CHEEEEESE! Also, the Egypt episode ... as much as I love the idea of a "time capsule" Immortal, my disbelief was not only suspended but hung by the neck until dead. I can accept the characters in various historical periods (or France, today) speaking "English" because I presume that the viewpoint character -- Duncan -- is understanding and answering them in their own language, as are other characters around them: it's a narrative convention for convenience's sake, but one that doesn't stretch credibility too much. But clearly there's no way that Duncan or other characters are understanding and speaking whatever she's speaking -- Ancient Egyptian, Latin, Greek, whatever was spoken in the Egypt of Cleopatra's era. Heee, as a history buff, this show makes me want to write fanfic just to fix the historical stuff! (I just about broke my brain trying to figure out where Rebecca and Amanda were supposed to be from.)
Beyond that, the Egypt episode really made me wonder about the role of food and water for Immortals. We've seen them eat and drink like anyone else, but logically they'd have to be able to survive starvation or they wouldn't be, well, immortal. So how does starvation affect them? Do they suffer hunger pains? Lose weight? When they eat, do they metabolize food normally?
These are probably the sort of questions that we're not supposed to wonder about.
Speaking of things we're probably not supposed to wonder about, her people must have mummified her, right? So did she have to regrow not just all her organs but her BRAIN? Was she aware of any of that happening? Ew.
On the other hand, just relaxing and going with the flow and trying very hard not to think much, it was a rather fun episode.
"Where are the horses?"
"They're under there. *points to hood; she looks skeptical* They're real tiny."
Anyway, all we have left is the season finale, and then it's onwards to season 3!
This entry is also posted at http://friendshipper.dreamwidth.org/319573.html with
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The question of starvation is addressed at least in passing (maybe more specifically; at any rate there's a particular description of an Immortal crossing a desert and it's said they "must have died a dozen times from heat and thirst" before they made it out. So apparently they can die, but then the great cosmic reset button restores them?)
--I always was curious about Immortal resurrection myself; its timing is very like the Stargate closing, in that it apparently just happens when the plot demands, anywhere from almost instantaneous to minutes later...!
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And LOL, yeah, about the inconsistency of the timing ... though in the case of Immortals, at least, it could be that it depends on how much damage they took? I assume that they stay dead until their heart, lungs, etc. are healed enough to be working again, so it would depend on what had happened to them and how bad it was.
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I swear in HL there's times where grievously injured Immies come back fast and other times where not-so-hurt ones take a while...our going theory was that there was sort of a general resurgence - the cosmic reset switch! - every 10 minutes or so, and you came back then regardless of how injured you were. Since there's several times when Immies killed at different times revive at the same time...(though not always)(yeah, we had all sorts of crazy HL theories - some from the general fandom and some from my circle of friends. It's a great show for trying to bullshit everything into making sense - at least if you like a challenge! XP)
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BWAHA. But once you got to that point, how would you ever break the cycle? You'd be doing that until someone invented hospitals!
Cosmic reset switch! hahahaha OH DEAR, SHOW. Why do we fan on stuff that makes us come up with explanations like that just to force things into some kind of sanity-making sense? Why do we LIKE it so much? XD
Edit: Although, like you said, Highlander does strike me as a show that really lends itself to that sort of thing, because it kind of, almost, makes sense! Unless you think about it too much! But if you think about it a little more, there seems to be some kind of underlying logic IF YOU CAN JUST FIGURE IT OUT. It's the stuff of which crazymaking fanwank is born. XD
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Or how strong their Quickening is to start with, or a combination of the two...
(Uh, hi -
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Also ... your icon! Hee!
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And don't worry about spoilers from me - I saw the series in possibly the most nonsensical order possible as the TV station that carried it where I live tended to show it at 3am, randomly stop and start showing it with no warning so I missed great swathes from not checking the 3am schedules every day and jump between series again pretty much at random! So I shall say nothing at all since I only know the chronological order of events through fanfic anyway... (I think I did manage to see most of S2 in order but I wouldn't swear to it.)
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Personally, I think I always got the impression that they come back fully healed, etc...though there may be things that contradict that? It's been a while now....
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They don't come back fully healed, though, at least from being shot. Or, er ... I guess it's not consistent is it? I can think of a couple of times that they've seemed to just pop back to life unharmed, but more often there is at least a bit of staggering around before they're back up to full fighting strength.
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And apologies, wasn't trying to spoil, I know you want to remain unspoiled and I respect that (and really am impressed with how successful you've been considering how old a fandomn HL is! ^__^)
More I was laughing about me and Neechan's fanning practices in general, that we've watched a LOT of series so many times that there are large chunks we can quote at will! Oh fandom, the amount of random (and mostly useless, if fun) knowlege I retain for your sake! ^_-
Yeeeah, I was having trouble remembering, but I was pretty sure it was inconsistent more than anything else...again, oh show ^__^ But as neechan said, trying to twist it around so you CAN explain it is in itself one of the great joys of the series ^_-
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(I have icons now! Only I can't use them here because of spoilers. Hurry up! ;))
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And I'm looking forward to getting far enough along to see your spoilery icons! :D
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I've got myself a spoiler-free icon now *points*, but I think you're about half a season away from the first of the spoilery ones.