Highlander season 3: They also serve

Enough reused flashbacks this is probably counts as a clips show
but the new parts are quality.
I love the Watchers eye view of things, the new perspective. Continues the 'make Joe a real character' project (rather than resource of the week).
Different Watchers as different people, yaays.
New flashbacks showing Mac getting his butt kicked. I just don't get tired of that ;)
And the flashbacks played right into the solution.
The stake sword is not the power.
Or, as Mac said in this one, it's only *part* of him. He can walk away from it.
And still kick ass.
Class.

Richie underused but helpful. To the rescue! Sort of. A bit late. But hey, the thought counts!
And, Richie remembers his lessons.

Highlander Season 3: Blind Faith

Now *that* was a good one.
Faith and redemption and all the good stuff.
Nice twisty plot that left us wondering and made us think.
This is what Highlander is best at.

Joe was on the 'judge and kill him' side?

It would have been interesting if that was the first death of a newbie Immortal. Duncan just assumed it wasn't and so did the story. Seems odd.

There was a guy driven mad by his father beating him.
Again.

Like the Avenging Angel episode, with the nutcase religious freak.
religion-father-abuse tangle?
or detangling the earlier ep?


Highlander has a lot of father issues and an extreme lack of mothers. Issues.

Highlander season 3: Song of the Executioner

That was another really good one
and I know its the start of a Kalas arc
which is going to be great
plus it pays off a lot of little things from the season so far
Duncan having to leave
and how angry he got at an Immortal not leaving after being seen dead
that makes Richie taking Anne away make total sense
though there is a bit of a conflict in the safety issues - Mac said protect Anne, but Kalas is still in the building and could be a threat to either/both/all of them.
but Richie has had his faith in Mac renewed/extended, with the incident with the lack of sword. He knows whatever happens Mac can handle it. And he also knows Anne cannot, and must not know the secret. So he took her away and left Mac.
Which turned out okay, because the Big Bad wants him to suffer not die (and :eyeroll: at the cliche but at least they're being thorough setting up the reasons)

But Richie isn't all worshipful either, pointing out when he thinks Mac is being unfair to Anne. But Mac's reasons make perfect sense too.

Anne's reaction is a bit annoying. She's so wishy washy! Duncan at the hospital basically admitted that two of her patients, one of them his friend, died because of *him*. But she doesn't go to the police! And then when he sends a *fax* to say sorry she comes running? And once he's dead she's all 'wah, we were angry!' Well yes, because of the whole death thing! Bloody good reason to be angry. But that follows the bit with Ian Bancroft, just because they're dead doesn't make them right.

And as always on Highlander everyone learns over and over that any conversation could be your last, so get it right. Value the moment. Carpe diem.

So these episodes, which I liked individually, work together in a season and click together in ways I'm just all *bounce* happy about. This is much better Highlander than the first two seasons, and I was a fan even from those.

happy!

Highlander season 3: Star-crossed

:(
Fitzcairn!

I know why they did it. Build up the Big Bad. Last ep they did the 'old friend we just happen to have never met before' thing. To escalate it had to be someone we had met. And they had to make it matter, so they spend all episode making him look cute and making us care.
And it worked.

At this point Mac has, what, two old friends fans are likely to give a damn about? Fitz and Amanda. All the other Immortals that survived ranged from boring to annoying to bad.


From the next disc on I think I've seen them.

I would think of more to say about this ep, but sitting in the machine right now is 'Methos'
:)

Highlander season 3: Methos

:) :) :)
happy happy happy
Methos!

I love Methos.

Live. Grow stronger. Fight another day.

as in, don't fight now if you don't have to.
works for me :)

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The Kalas arc makes progress and gets worse, the Watcher arc keeps going and also gets worse, Joe even from afar is involved, Richie has the get a life story arc going on, and Mac is in the middle of all of it. And they introduce Methos.

So, there's a lot to like here :)

Highlander season 3: Take Back the Night

or 'revenge bad'
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Highlander season 3: Testimony

Anne is back, and has to do the doctor thing right away.
The danger thing is actually there in the subtext, accepting danger because of the boyfriend. Anne talks Tasha out of it.
Now waiting for her to listen to own advice.
Except again the difference is Tasha's boyfriend does the bad directly, Mac is only badness magnet. And actually in this case, its more like Tessa in distress, Mac and his complications arrive after the initial badness, without Mac Tasha and probably Anne would have died. So.

Immortals can catch cold, they just can't die of it.
Now I actually rather hate that line, because its saying that they never go to doctors even though they get sick.
personally I decided to figure he meant being cold, hypothermia, can be a bad for Immortals, because that is a whole different problem than infectious diseases. If Immortals could catch infections, but not die of them, they could catch say ebola, and wander around spreading it. Maybe forever. Huge great badness.
I think Mac just got all cold and wet and sneezed some, and thinks that was a cold.

"I die, you go right behind me."
One thing you can say about Richie, he's never short on balls.
The dotted line bit was highly creepy, and therefore effective.
Not that the cossack dude was one of the all time great bad guys, but that part worked okay.

Duncan thinking Richie was killed for a moment here, Richie arriving in time for the Quickening back when he brought Mac the sword. Symmetry.

Richie is not a damsel in distress. Not a boy, not a kid. Saves himself.

Richie is also 20. Only. 18 just after start of 1st season, 19 2nd, 20 in 3rd.
Compare that to Buffy and that is, what, season 5? 6?
Richie is pretty much alone, and has been managing a business for part of the year.
compare with Xander. supervisor by now, but with many friends.
Surrounded by similar age people makes a different impression than surrounded by olders.

"I'd kiss you but people might talk"

already talking :)


I like this ep.

Highlander season 3: Mortal Sins

Interesting. The children theme continues. It went specifically from 'they're not children, they can choose' to this one with the flashback to the child that did things he couldn't (at least by current thinking) have really understood the full impact of, and then grew up into a man who had to live with the consequences.
And there's the theoretical child, Anne's pregnancy.
Which is the reason they packed off Richie last episode, because would he ever have something to say to Mac about that.
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