Highlander season 3 - Shadows
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beccaelizabethIs a sign of watching too many eps in a row that I keep forwarding through the sword fights... Aside from that...
Mac goes crazy, hallucinates, starts slashing around with a sword, nearly kills Richie. Why does this sound familiar? Oh yeah, because they reused it, what, every year?
Only *nearly* kills Richie. Who has his sword up and can protect himself. (Yup, I repeat myself much)
The stonemason is the same actor guy who was the guy on Stargate and Atlantis, the Tollan and the girl's boyfriend. Only with more hair.
I like the gargoyles.
Usually they're made to scare off the bad things by being badder. Not so much a sign of psychosis.
So, Doctor Anne is with Mac when he starts hallucinating, pulls out a sword and starts hacking around, and she *covers* for him?
At this point I lose all respect for her.
That wasn't thinking with the brain parts.
You worry for someone, you get them professional help.
If they're a danger to himself and others - which he demonstrably really really is - you get them the locked up kind of help.
This is what is best for them, this is what doctors should do, so by covering for him she is doing worse for him and not a doctory type thing. No respect.
Or, alternately, not so very good writing, because obviously if he ends up locked up it holds up the story rather so they just skim past.
Either way, annoyance.
Also, I think by this point I'd have dumped him. He's at least two strikes down, and I have a very low tolerance for crazy people.
Mac cut Richie's stomach
because Richie's sword was *up at neck level*
That 'no medical history' thing that they always go woah about when it comes up in the story - sign of Immortality!
Or, my Grandpa. Up until very recently.
What are the ethics of looking up your boyfriend's medical history anyway? Because it strikes me as very dodgy. Slim justification in the current mental health angle, but still, dodgy.
I truly don't understand why Duncan goes to talk to the crazy man about sanity. I mean his first question was about what was it like, but the thing is, last time they met, the man was nuts! Why is he jumping to not-nuts now? Why does he think this man is reliable? It makes no sense.
Duncan trying to deal with problems alone, bad. Duncan pushing away his friends and listening to near strangers, very bad. Stupid. Can't see why it would happen.
aha. yes, still a nutcase. got burned at the stake. ouch.
blames Mac even though it was him got Mac in trouble in the first place.
still crazy.
so Duncan's part really really doesn't make sense.
She's prescribing her boyfriend sleeping pills? Without examining him? What the fuck?
Okay, here's me at active dislike. Wrong pills are worse than no pills.
And with no discussion! no talking of effects and side effects!
The Richie as agent sub plot doesn't seem to connect to the main plot at all. Just provides an excuse for musical interlude.
"Maybe he's been a rock for too long."
So, Joe knows Garrick is nuts! Yaay!
Er, why didn't Duncan ask Joe about him?
Now Richie tries to help. Babysitting, yaays.
Mac being all 'kill me if you have to'
and Richie saying he can't
why are tranquiliser darts not coming in to this discussion at all?
Richie walking out, fair but unhelpful. This is why when family goes nuts you get professional help. If they reach can't point they can call in a new shift.
Did Richie tell Mac about Garrick? We don't see it happen, but it would be very stupid if not.
Mac takes the pills. May I suggest that, when someone is trying to kill you, random someones at random intervals, driving off the friend before you medicate is a *very bad idea*.
ALL the pills???
And again we're back to respecting Anne not at all, because if he was mortal he'd be *dead* by now, and she handed over the means. That's just fucked up and stupid.
Mac's current stupidity is understandable. Crazy.
Crazy is annoying as a storyline though, because where's the morals? Where's the choices? Just crazy broken is all.
Oops. Richie got his ass kicked real fast.
And that's when we know for sure the 'hallucination' isn't so simple.
The part I don't get is why the drugs *and* the hallucination plot? I mean all it adds is 'get rid of Doctor Anne now', not making the other bit more plausible. Well, the current lack of fight wouldn't happen without the pills.
I like it that the detail they've shown us before, the ring, is what gives him away. Tidy.
Garrick's gift of vision, that he's spent centuries turning into a projecting talent. Interesting. Psychic powers exist in Highlander, we know that from 'The Darkness'. But using them as a weapon is new and nifty.
"In your dreams"
heh
Quickening in the loft. UH oh. Trippy hallucinatory Q with many interesting kabooms. Fun!
I mean Duncan looks like a prat, but that's a pretty general side effect of Quickenings anyways.
I like it that everything gets trashed.
Buffyverse xover potential, we have psychic powers, visions, and using them as weapon, sending them to people.
Visions sending Garrick mad? Yes, he saw the thing he couldn't endure, when he saw his family burn.
Is a common theme, side effect in seers, insanity.
Mac is being all sad about the lost knowledge. Very magnanimous. And a good point.
You know, aside from the crazy.
Yaaay! Gone! Dumps him!
Trouble is she makes it sound like its about secrets, rather than 'bugfuck insanity with swords'
and she never gets called on her stupid with the pills.
I know she's back later, I saw her dump him again.
I'm intensely not looking forward to that. Stay gone! Bad doctor. Dumb girlfriend.
They skipped so much of the relationship it was like they skipped straight to the breakup. Very odd way of telling it.
Except they probably thought the breakup was the point.
But did we actually see them kissing and all that romantic stuff? We saw them in bed, with him having a nightmare. Not romantic!
I don't know what they were trying to do with that relationship, but getting me to cheer when she leaves seems like a vast waste of screen time.
Interesting episode. Lots to play with. Crossover potential. And insane Duncan, which is always fun.
Albeit kind of limited as a story. No choices, and the consequences usually get written off, ignored.
Richie trying to do right by his friends yaay.
Getting overwhelmed, and getting his ass kicked in a fight, less yaay, but definitely in character. Is he still a teenager? 20 now? Very young either way. And dealing with a lot.
Most interesting one there. Never knowing how things will turn out with him, which way he'll jump. Just that he'll care. Makes much variety.
Mac goes crazy, hallucinates, starts slashing around with a sword, nearly kills Richie. Why does this sound familiar? Oh yeah, because they reused it, what, every year?
Only *nearly* kills Richie. Who has his sword up and can protect himself. (Yup, I repeat myself much)
The stonemason is the same actor guy who was the guy on Stargate and Atlantis, the Tollan and the girl's boyfriend. Only with more hair.
I like the gargoyles.
Usually they're made to scare off the bad things by being badder. Not so much a sign of psychosis.
So, Doctor Anne is with Mac when he starts hallucinating, pulls out a sword and starts hacking around, and she *covers* for him?
At this point I lose all respect for her.
That wasn't thinking with the brain parts.
You worry for someone, you get them professional help.
If they're a danger to himself and others - which he demonstrably really really is - you get them the locked up kind of help.
This is what is best for them, this is what doctors should do, so by covering for him she is doing worse for him and not a doctory type thing. No respect.
Or, alternately, not so very good writing, because obviously if he ends up locked up it holds up the story rather so they just skim past.
Either way, annoyance.
Also, I think by this point I'd have dumped him. He's at least two strikes down, and I have a very low tolerance for crazy people.
Mac cut Richie's stomach
because Richie's sword was *up at neck level*
That 'no medical history' thing that they always go woah about when it comes up in the story - sign of Immortality!
Or, my Grandpa. Up until very recently.
What are the ethics of looking up your boyfriend's medical history anyway? Because it strikes me as very dodgy. Slim justification in the current mental health angle, but still, dodgy.
I truly don't understand why Duncan goes to talk to the crazy man about sanity. I mean his first question was about what was it like, but the thing is, last time they met, the man was nuts! Why is he jumping to not-nuts now? Why does he think this man is reliable? It makes no sense.
Duncan trying to deal with problems alone, bad. Duncan pushing away his friends and listening to near strangers, very bad. Stupid. Can't see why it would happen.
aha. yes, still a nutcase. got burned at the stake. ouch.
blames Mac even though it was him got Mac in trouble in the first place.
still crazy.
so Duncan's part really really doesn't make sense.
She's prescribing her boyfriend sleeping pills? Without examining him? What the fuck?
Okay, here's me at active dislike. Wrong pills are worse than no pills.
And with no discussion! no talking of effects and side effects!
The Richie as agent sub plot doesn't seem to connect to the main plot at all. Just provides an excuse for musical interlude.
"Maybe he's been a rock for too long."
So, Joe knows Garrick is nuts! Yaay!
Er, why didn't Duncan ask Joe about him?
Now Richie tries to help. Babysitting, yaays.
Mac being all 'kill me if you have to'
and Richie saying he can't
why are tranquiliser darts not coming in to this discussion at all?
Richie walking out, fair but unhelpful. This is why when family goes nuts you get professional help. If they reach can't point they can call in a new shift.
Did Richie tell Mac about Garrick? We don't see it happen, but it would be very stupid if not.
Mac takes the pills. May I suggest that, when someone is trying to kill you, random someones at random intervals, driving off the friend before you medicate is a *very bad idea*.
ALL the pills???
And again we're back to respecting Anne not at all, because if he was mortal he'd be *dead* by now, and she handed over the means. That's just fucked up and stupid.
Mac's current stupidity is understandable. Crazy.
Crazy is annoying as a storyline though, because where's the morals? Where's the choices? Just crazy broken is all.
Oops. Richie got his ass kicked real fast.
And that's when we know for sure the 'hallucination' isn't so simple.
The part I don't get is why the drugs *and* the hallucination plot? I mean all it adds is 'get rid of Doctor Anne now', not making the other bit more plausible. Well, the current lack of fight wouldn't happen without the pills.
I like it that the detail they've shown us before, the ring, is what gives him away. Tidy.
Garrick's gift of vision, that he's spent centuries turning into a projecting talent. Interesting. Psychic powers exist in Highlander, we know that from 'The Darkness'. But using them as a weapon is new and nifty.
"In your dreams"
heh
Quickening in the loft. UH oh. Trippy hallucinatory Q with many interesting kabooms. Fun!
I mean Duncan looks like a prat, but that's a pretty general side effect of Quickenings anyways.
I like it that everything gets trashed.
Buffyverse xover potential, we have psychic powers, visions, and using them as weapon, sending them to people.
Visions sending Garrick mad? Yes, he saw the thing he couldn't endure, when he saw his family burn.
Is a common theme, side effect in seers, insanity.
Mac is being all sad about the lost knowledge. Very magnanimous. And a good point.
You know, aside from the crazy.
Yaaay! Gone! Dumps him!
Trouble is she makes it sound like its about secrets, rather than 'bugfuck insanity with swords'
and she never gets called on her stupid with the pills.
I know she's back later, I saw her dump him again.
I'm intensely not looking forward to that. Stay gone! Bad doctor. Dumb girlfriend.
They skipped so much of the relationship it was like they skipped straight to the breakup. Very odd way of telling it.
Except they probably thought the breakup was the point.
But did we actually see them kissing and all that romantic stuff? We saw them in bed, with him having a nightmare. Not romantic!
I don't know what they were trying to do with that relationship, but getting me to cheer when she leaves seems like a vast waste of screen time.
Interesting episode. Lots to play with. Crossover potential. And insane Duncan, which is always fun.
Albeit kind of limited as a story. No choices, and the consequences usually get written off, ignored.
Richie trying to do right by his friends yaay.
Getting overwhelmed, and getting his ass kicked in a fight, less yaay, but definitely in character. Is he still a teenager? 20 now? Very young either way. And dealing with a lot.
Most interesting one there. Never knowing how things will turn out with him, which way he'll jump. Just that he'll care. Makes much variety.
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Date: 2006-01-19 11:47 am (UTC)First, she *can't* look up his medical history from her hospital. Your medical history doesn't go into this *GIANT* database that is then sent to *every* hospital in the universe. How in the hell would she know where Duncan went to the doctor. A doctor's office record is only stored in *that* office. No one else in the world would have access to it. Ect, ect....
And then, when someone is delusional or acting out - we take them off their pills, specifically all pills that have a sedative or delusional effect. Many psyche drugs can cause delirium and we want to take them off and see what their true mental status is.
And, yes, she should have been much more upset about his hallucinations and the fact that he had a live weapon and swinging it around than about the fact that he wouldn't tell her where his folks lived and was being secretive.
But believe it or not, my biggest problems with Anne were from the episode when she broke up with him for good and broke his heart. To me, she was so cruel and I cried with Duncan. I think that's one reason why I love Misconceptions so much and the reason I wrote my own story - because I wanted to give Duncan back the child she took away from him so cold-heartedly.
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Date: 2006-01-20 03:10 pm (UTC)the pills thing I find a huge great hot button. Issues.
Anne I find pretty impossible to like, because the writers have her be so blind where it suits them.
I cheer whenever she dumps him. (I get to cheer a lot)
with all she has been through, all the people around her have been through, all Richie went through trying to raise 'his' baby, the only part I have a problem with is Anne keeping on coming back. For her own safety and that of everyone around her she should stay as far away from Mac as possible, and so (according to Mac, when its Richie) should babies.
I might have a different opinion when I've watched them all through in order.
But I can't see how right now.
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Date: 2006-01-20 06:37 pm (UTC)And all kidding aside - you know how I feel. I adore Amanda. And I thought Tessa was perfect for him at the time. But his true companion was a bit taller than Anne - has a rather distinctive nose and gorgeous eyes. He makes Duncan crazy like Amanda - he keeps Duncan on his toes like both Amanda and Tessa - and he doesn't put up with any shit - just like Tessa. But he's also Immortal and can hold his own.
Oh yeah- he has dangly bits too.
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Date: 2006-01-19 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 03:05 pm (UTC)The drug addict guy back in Courage established that inhaling/snorting stuff worked plenty well, as long as there was enough of it (enough being really a lot)
This time its pills, and despite taking so many he could wake up, so again doesage but working.
I think 'for how long' is a needs of the plot thing.