Highlander DVDs: Nowhere to Run
Jan. 9th, 2006 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethJust finished watching 'Nowhere to Run'
aka the Highlander with ASH in it
has anyone screencapped it yet?
I have the disc in the computer right now but I don't want to fiddle about duplicating effort.
He definitely isn't Giles. But at one point he has a flamethrower.
The voices in this one were deeply strange though. Like they'd been badly redubbed by Americans, but not everywhere. If it was actually ASH doing that voice, whatever accent he was aiming for, he missed. Sounded very strange.
This time through I've been noticing the writing, and the vast improvements therein. Layers, themeiness, cross connections, references, all kinds of neat stuff.
I mean the actual plot is kind of like Home Alone, only with messy and painful death. But there's definite character stuff going on in between the domestic deadliness.
First time Richie kills a man. Since the start of the series he has gone from petty theft and running away, to distracting someone at a bad time and getting them killed, to torching an Immortal, to now knocking a guy into a toothy trap thing, that clamps around his neck and kills him, while Richie watches. Look on his face. Its like, escalating violence, some moments where Richie is inventively vicious, but he definitely isn't getting off on it. While he waves Duncan's sword around it all seems cool, but when there's a guy actually dying in front of him, big difference.
Also, Duncan wins, but it doesn't fix anything. He wins the sword fight, he kills a bunch of people, but the guy he was protecting gets shot anyway. By the girl he raped. Because he ignored all attempts to help him, then thought the gun was the power despite not actually using it. Also, he hit Richie on the head. Bastard. No hitting people on the head! They crunch!
All the Paris eps I could poke at and find stuff to say about them that doesn't involve wincing or hiding at all. Is very cool.
aka the Highlander with ASH in it
has anyone screencapped it yet?
I have the disc in the computer right now but I don't want to fiddle about duplicating effort.
He definitely isn't Giles. But at one point he has a flamethrower.
The voices in this one were deeply strange though. Like they'd been badly redubbed by Americans, but not everywhere. If it was actually ASH doing that voice, whatever accent he was aiming for, he missed. Sounded very strange.
This time through I've been noticing the writing, and the vast improvements therein. Layers, themeiness, cross connections, references, all kinds of neat stuff.
I mean the actual plot is kind of like Home Alone, only with messy and painful death. But there's definite character stuff going on in between the domestic deadliness.
First time Richie kills a man. Since the start of the series he has gone from petty theft and running away, to distracting someone at a bad time and getting them killed, to torching an Immortal, to now knocking a guy into a toothy trap thing, that clamps around his neck and kills him, while Richie watches. Look on his face. Its like, escalating violence, some moments where Richie is inventively vicious, but he definitely isn't getting off on it. While he waves Duncan's sword around it all seems cool, but when there's a guy actually dying in front of him, big difference.
Also, Duncan wins, but it doesn't fix anything. He wins the sword fight, he kills a bunch of people, but the guy he was protecting gets shot anyway. By the girl he raped. Because he ignored all attempts to help him, then thought the gun was the power despite not actually using it. Also, he hit Richie on the head. Bastard. No hitting people on the head! They crunch!
All the Paris eps I could poke at and find stuff to say about them that doesn't involve wincing or hiding at all. Is very cool.