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sleeped a lot in stages
so I remember much of dreams
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I have strange dreams.

highlander season 4: Double Eagle

if there are moral issues in this one they hide real well
maybe something about gambling, and assumptions
but that isn't the fun part


Amanda :)


call her a cheap whore? objects to cheap.
dress doesn't come off for less than a million.
now that is classy ;)

Not French either.

I love her dresses. Big swooshy dresses.
Her modern clothes are a teensy bit... well, I mean, leopard skin? Not so very much class.
I found it amusing that at the racetrack she is wearing a silver coat, the exact one Cordy wore when Xander told her to wear something slutty(er).

I liked the little black skirt and the tights with the seams up the back.

I basically like Amanda.


Is interesting she just brings her stuff and moves in with Mac.
And then gets so paranoid about there being another woman.
the other times she turns up and there was a woman she doesn't seem to mind.
so I guess the issue would be lying and cheating, rather than the prior appointment bit.
plus, this is after Finale, when they 'said some things we hadn't said before'
so she's kind of put a big bet of personal feeling on Mac receiving her well this time.
and 'welcome home' is very well indeed :)

Amanda confuzzling Richie :)

Amanda is just fun. She knows where her power is at and she uses it. No damsel in distress she. Enjoys her world.


Kit though... kind of annoying. And doesn't Duncan know the most shady people? And that bit with the sneezing... I heard the actor came up with that, but couldn't they have stopped him? This one Immortal in the whole world reacts that way? And sneezing twice for two Immortals, that actually changes the nature of the buzz quite significantly. If it is possible to get numbers from it, thats a very big change. Even if it isn't conscious knowledge.

But, anyways. Amanda. :)

Highlander season 4: Reunion

There's stuff here about appearance vs reality, and of course the baby thing.
Mostly though - that kid is *creepy*.

and there's absolutely no reason not to kill him outside of 'he looks so little'

It adds much interesting to make him Amanda's student. We get some of her point of view on the childless thing, to go with Duncan's ongoing epic of not parenting. And Anne is back. With baby bump.

I like it when Anne & Amanda go off together at the end and Duncan is all 'uhoh' and hiding behind his shirt.


Amanda brought several trunks of clothes with her yet continues to wear variations on the same, what, five outfits?
I know, limited budget. Not as bad as sometimes. Is cool.


these episodes, I can't decide if I've seen them before or not. I mean I've definitely seen lots of chunks of them, but then there's other bits I haven't seen before. I think maybe I saw them on TV? With edits? Or else I haven't seen them except for in clips, like flashbacks from later, but I'm not sure at all. Its wierd.

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I got the script book that includes 'The Dark Age' and I'm up to cage full of corpse comparing it to the transcript and episode vid.
So far my main conclusion is all the dumb bits got cut.
yaays!

its actually making me feel better about ignoring other bits of nearly happened, snips of talk that didn't get in finished eps. there's usually good reasons.

also it reminding me how actors actually have a different reality than viewers do. I mean they get these scripts with all the bits in, and probably have to act all the bits, and only then the scenes get cut. Its real easy to get a different idea of what a character is like, because their version said and did a whole bunch of different things. only way to know for sure what made it to final version would be to watch all the eps, and it would be a while after making them so maybe not get filed mentally with same stuff. and maybe they think the cut bits were cut for time only and should be there. and they'd still have a different version in their head.
Plus actors do many versions same scene, and finished version gets pasted together from bits of all of them.
Is amazing if their idea matches viewers, actually.

Highlander season 4: The Colonel

femmeslash central
"Something about a girl with her hand on a man's wallet that turns me on"
weirdly narcicisstic

Duncan got a guy locked up in a prison for the insane.
for how long?
long and long, right?
Compare/contrast 'The Innocent'
and grrrr with me.
Presumably the difference is he thinks of it as punishment and didn't want to punish that guy???

But the thing with the secret can't be a factor.
Unless its because science et al has changed so much since then.
Or maybe that back then changed his mind.

"70 years they locked me away. So long that no one remembered where I came from or who I was."

so... the records got destroyed every ten years then???
paperwork has a long memory.

the bit with the lightbulb is lovely and creepy.

"I would know if he was dead. I would feel it."
balls.
thats one of those things people think *should* be true.

Why is Mac using the actual tool as a tool when he could just as well use an empty can? He can't empty cans without the tool!
Dumb.

"You and MacLeod. That you're more than just his Watcher."
good old fashioned / there too.

yeah, just good friends. but the whole story is about getting them back together. is fun reading it romantic ;)

Killean is a moron.
Which isn't surprising after 70 years in a box, but still, moron.

Duncan having a military Quickening. Looks even sillier than usual. :)


Quickenings are interesting. They do so many of them they have probably used every film trick in the book. I could do a compare/contrast and use all the good keywords from Cultural Studies last year.
probably none of the isms though.

Amanda leaving again :(
because guilt.
sets her apart from a lot of the more grey characters I like.

"I forgot how fragile they are."

And her last favour is "Go see Joe. Duncan, life is too short. For him."
see, message!
Highlander might be 'about' Immortals, but its all about the mortal stuff, don't leave it for later stuff.

and the drink at the end.
goes right back to "I only drink with my friends"
that was Duncan's reply to Joe reaching out the first time :)

Highlander season 4: Reluctant Heroes

I like this one. Mac is (a) being an ass and (b) being called on it.

"Time doesn't make any difference" says Mac?
hell if.

Richie telling Mac off, yaays!
Richie in this episode in general, yaays.

would Mac's testimony stand up now anyway? I mean he lied in the first place. Or at least logically he lied one time or the other. The pay issue is just added problem.

so now he goes out and intimidates? oh so very helpful :eyeroll:

"but they're not all screwing your partner" has no style at all

Its a bit of an annoying story actually.

Lots of good Richie screencap moments.
Richie pretty.

lookit, dead meat! so symbolic.

Immortal guy complaining about how assassins just aren't as respeted as they used to be.
uphill! both ways!
*giggles*

very convenient and tidy this story is. all the bad people kill each other except the Immortal one Mac takes care of.
One of the reasons I like Highlander, when in a certain mood. Squish! Stab! All tidy goes the problems.

dead meat is really icky to look at.

Mac stabbed him *where* exactly???
"Close your eyes, think of England"
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Quickening in a meat locker! Logically, that would result in roast mincemeat, yesno?
Eeew, freaky double mirror things. What up with that?

"Kinman didn't get away with it"
interesting decision.


I like the episode. Lots of Richie being his own person. And also right. Yaays!