College, Romeo and Juliet

Went to college, went to lessons, watched clips of things I'd watched at home already, had no useful thoughts or contributions, got distracted by swords.
Then the lesson had gone long so there wasn't a bus for another hour, so I went to the library
and finished my sonnet with Tybalt and Lady Capulet.
It's rubbish, but it has the right number of lines, dedums, and rhymes. So I could analyse how rubbish it is and hand it in anyway.
I thought of the last two lines and then the middle lines filled in. Useful.
It doesn't say what I wanted it to but I have weeks left to fiddle.

Next I need to write something for the nurse and I will have done the plan I told the teacher.


There are many pretty tree flowers happening at the moment. I like it cause the trees look frilly and there's some really improbable looking color going on there. I not so much like it cause my eyes goo and my has itchings.

Big Finish Audio: Highlander Season 2

So far today I have listened to 3 episodes. They're about Kronos, Silas, and Caspian. Except I'm pretty sure it isn't properly them. The stories are based on a twist on the Highlander concept. Instead of 'take their head and with it their power' the whole thing is based on the idea you can take parts and pieces away, eat bits of an Immortal's Quickening and with it some aspect of their emotions, capacity and personality. It combines this with the Dark Quickening concept. And it keeps playing with the mechanics of Immortality, with what you could do to really permanently mess up an Immortal.

Highlander is 'romantic talmudic discussion with swords'. This... isn't. It's a three episode horror story about grotesque ways to die and things worse than death. I'm at once grossed out and bored.

And it's repetitive. It comes up with a new bad guy and a new bad thing he does and then it just repeats it. Why bother?

So now there's just the Methos story left to listen to, but I don't think I want to, because right now I only need to erase these mucked up fanfic versions of the other three Horsemen, and I know plenty versions of them already. A mucked up Methos would be... well, rather worse.

Details: The Kronos story didn't do anything too distorting to his character. I guess I was okay with that one, I just found it a bit pointless. ( Read more... )

I need now a list of any time any Immortal suffers a head injury. Bullet to the brain pan, sword in the head, arrows, I don't know. If there is evidence I need to have the knowing of it. Because this can't be right.

It's also really boring. We learn something about Silas and Caspian that doesn't apply to anyone else, that can't be a question in our own lives. ( Read more... )

I'm currently regretting I bought these.

I didn't buy the first season because I thought they'd have a different idea of What Highlander Is About than the (mostly female fanfic writer) fandom I knew did. I kind of wish I'd stuck with that idea, because really, very much correct.

Bored and icked.

(no subject)

Now I want to read Highlander fic to rinse my brain out.
You know how long it has been since I read Highlander fic?
Long enough I don't know where to find it any more.

Highlander: The Four Horsemen

So I re-read (skimmed) the scripts for Comes a Horseman and Revelations 6:8, including the 'cut' scene I'm sure I've seen somewhen, Methos leaves the Horsemen, which very nearly contradicts the audios I just listened to. Mostly I was thinking, if what I just listened to wasn't the Horsemen's story, what would be?

For Silas the thing to explore is what seems like a contradiction in him: he's a big, happy, guy who seems like a nice bloke when he's with horses or monkeys or weak small things, but then really really likes hitting things with an axe. ( Read more... )

Caspian is less of a contradiction, more of a complete and total bastard. He's introduced as a serial killer: "Nobody knows how many people he killed. They found parts in his basement, in his garden, in his freezer." And he eats the bug in his cell. Implication, he eats everything. Famine.
The interesting thing about Immortals is the Quickening. Take their head, and with it their power. Immortals consume each other. ( Read more... )

Kronos... he's all about scale. He wants to watch the world burn. But there's also a thing where Silas is about the fighting, Caspian is about what happens to the bodies after, but Kronos is about the moment of death. He wants to kill, not just fight, and it's not about what he'll achieve by it. For him killing is an expression of power. ( Read more... )

Methos... as ever, the most interesting one. Because whatever line he's dancing on, he's still dancing. ( Read more... )

If you sum up Highlander as 'talmudic discussion with swords' you can find a lot of questions it explores, but I think the central one is 'when, if ever, is it right to kill?' And Duncan MacLeod finds an answer to that every week. (The answer usually being 'now'.)

The story for Methos isn't simply about the sword fight, it's being the manipulative scheming bastard, 'one who understood the true use of terror'. Being the monster. When, if ever, is that right?

And when does it tip over into being the Horsemen?