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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!
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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