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beccaelizabethThe funnest part about this episode is that it calls into question every flashback we've ever seen. Was it how things really were, or just a particular memory? And so for me points out the difficulties with 'really knowing' as a concept, and the whole way editing and film tricks construct the presentation of knowledge, and all that.
I've been told off before for saying that, because 'obviously' this was the exception that proved the rule. Crazy man was having crazy flashbacks and Duncan flashbacks are always precisely the way the world was.
But the fuzzy memory explanation does smooth over an awful lot of continuity...
The thing about the guy killing his student, that was nasty. So bloody stupid. Just getting angry with a sword in hand.
Duncan letting him live with that? What up with that? What moral judgement was that? The 'friend' get out of jail free card?
What happened to Amanda between episodes? Stayed with the circus while Mac went home? As I said, that ending was *bizarre*.
Methos. Remembering Alexa. 'young to be smart' comments. offering to cook Mac some roman food. Filing for 10 years, 'you say that like it would be a bad thing'.
Methos yaay :)
Mac, less yaay. The Alexa thing... Methos remembers, but Mac seems to forget entirely. Just push Methos around, bully him. Dropping pages in the snow! Does Mac even remember *why* Methos is keeping a low profile? It was a little thing where the Watchers *found out about Methos and tried to kill him*. Now in my world friends don't just ignore that for their own convenience.
Its the writers that forget, making Mac look bad.
So once again we have to fiddle with it to make it make sense.
Maybe all Mac knows is that the Watcher guy was holding Adam hostage.
Nope, he knows Adam took a bullet. The Watchers therefore found out about him. It is possible Methos never mentioned the sword part, but even so, that was a rather important incident. How long ago was it in series time? Longer than a couple of weeks I think, but still, not so very long.
Mac does know they start the ep at Alexa's grave. So getting the grieving man to drop everything and stick his neck out remains opposite-of-classy.
Methos remembers though. Remembers Alexa.
Goes back to old storage space to dig through papers and read really old things. As a way to deal with grief? Interesting.
Mostly Methos is used as a plot device again.
Highlander really isn't an ensemble show. Not-Mac people get less respect from writers, methinks.
Okay episode, with a whole other layer about rewriting history and the mythology of countries.
I've been told off before for saying that, because 'obviously' this was the exception that proved the rule. Crazy man was having crazy flashbacks and Duncan flashbacks are always precisely the way the world was.
But the fuzzy memory explanation does smooth over an awful lot of continuity...
The thing about the guy killing his student, that was nasty. So bloody stupid. Just getting angry with a sword in hand.
Duncan letting him live with that? What up with that? What moral judgement was that? The 'friend' get out of jail free card?
What happened to Amanda between episodes? Stayed with the circus while Mac went home? As I said, that ending was *bizarre*.
Methos. Remembering Alexa. 'young to be smart' comments. offering to cook Mac some roman food. Filing for 10 years, 'you say that like it would be a bad thing'.
Methos yaay :)
Mac, less yaay. The Alexa thing... Methos remembers, but Mac seems to forget entirely. Just push Methos around, bully him. Dropping pages in the snow! Does Mac even remember *why* Methos is keeping a low profile? It was a little thing where the Watchers *found out about Methos and tried to kill him*. Now in my world friends don't just ignore that for their own convenience.
Its the writers that forget, making Mac look bad.
So once again we have to fiddle with it to make it make sense.
Maybe all Mac knows is that the Watcher guy was holding Adam hostage.
Nope, he knows Adam took a bullet. The Watchers therefore found out about him. It is possible Methos never mentioned the sword part, but even so, that was a rather important incident. How long ago was it in series time? Longer than a couple of weeks I think, but still, not so very long.
Mac does know they start the ep at Alexa's grave. So getting the grieving man to drop everything and stick his neck out remains opposite-of-classy.
Methos remembers though. Remembers Alexa.
Goes back to old storage space to dig through papers and read really old things. As a way to deal with grief? Interesting.
Mostly Methos is used as a plot device again.
Highlander really isn't an ensemble show. Not-Mac people get less respect from writers, methinks.
Okay episode, with a whole other layer about rewriting history and the mythology of countries.
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Date: 2006-02-05 09:08 pm (UTC)I always kinda took Mac's using Methos for information as a)convienence, since Joe doesn't seem to be around and b)there seems to be a little bit of Mac trying to get Methos out of the grief, giving him something to do, teasing him by dropping the papers. Though that could be me reading a bit into it. You do have good points about *why* Methos might be a tad reluctant to risk attracting the Watchers attention, especially since the whole Tribunal thing happens not too much later. I assume that all the watchers who knew about his little re-animation trick died on the bridge in "Methuselah's Gift"?
Interesting point about the unreliability of Immortal memory.