Highlander season 5 : The Messenger
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beccaelizabethThis is another one where the thoughts are all up there in the text, so I feel less need to discuss it.
Richie looking for a way out. Richie arc, interesting.
Disco Quickening... one of the ones that works least well ever, methinks.
Methos, the real one... :-)
Methos, the not so much real one :-/
The whole point of Highlander, a bit like with Angel, is that there are some things worth fighting for. Risking death, yeah, but worse than that, having to kill. Fighting because you are afraid to die is not so much the good reason. That kind of fighting, stay on holy ground, be safe. But fighting because you are afraid for *other people* to die, that's a whole different thing.
That was the conversation they needed to have with Richie.
The first fight he got into with another Immortal wasn't because of the Game, or the Rules, or any of that other shit. It was because some people got out of a car in front of him, carrying guns, trying to kill some guy. Richie didn't know who was involved, what was going on, any of that. But he saw people about to do bad things, and he stopped them. And somebody died. *That* is the kind of fight he needed to be reminded of. The kind where you fight, or someone else dies.
But because this is a story, they did show not tell of it. Richie tries to stop the Game, but Mac isn't fighting because of the Game, he's fighting because the other guy is a total bastard. And because the other guy lives, he kills the Messenger. And Richie, presumably, gets it. There are worse things than dying.
So I like this episode a lot.
I also like the *incredibly* snarky conversation Methos has with Methos. I mean, you can just hear him trotting out the most annoying things he ever got asked. And the twist in his voice, the I know something you don't know... Its just classic. Pure class.
And Richie finds out Adam's real name. Presumably real. Everyone treats it as real. But the presence of fake-Methos has to raise the question again, how on earth can they know?
Well, I put the next disc in, so I'm only one episode away from Comes a Horseman and Revelation 6:8.
We know because he might be the oldest, but there are others who are right up there. And he's older than them.
Real Methos.
But not at all who we expect him to be.
I love that about the character Methos. All this time on Earth, and what is he? Just a guy. Just people. *Love* that.
Very philosophical episode, with Richie and Methos and lots of character stuff going on. Conversations about good and evil where no one is, to my mind, ever quite right. Methos being manipulative and snarky. All good.
Richie looking for a way out. Richie arc, interesting.
Disco Quickening... one of the ones that works least well ever, methinks.
Methos, the real one... :-)
Methos, the not so much real one :-/
The whole point of Highlander, a bit like with Angel, is that there are some things worth fighting for. Risking death, yeah, but worse than that, having to kill. Fighting because you are afraid to die is not so much the good reason. That kind of fighting, stay on holy ground, be safe. But fighting because you are afraid for *other people* to die, that's a whole different thing.
That was the conversation they needed to have with Richie.
The first fight he got into with another Immortal wasn't because of the Game, or the Rules, or any of that other shit. It was because some people got out of a car in front of him, carrying guns, trying to kill some guy. Richie didn't know who was involved, what was going on, any of that. But he saw people about to do bad things, and he stopped them. And somebody died. *That* is the kind of fight he needed to be reminded of. The kind where you fight, or someone else dies.
But because this is a story, they did show not tell of it. Richie tries to stop the Game, but Mac isn't fighting because of the Game, he's fighting because the other guy is a total bastard. And because the other guy lives, he kills the Messenger. And Richie, presumably, gets it. There are worse things than dying.
So I like this episode a lot.
I also like the *incredibly* snarky conversation Methos has with Methos. I mean, you can just hear him trotting out the most annoying things he ever got asked. And the twist in his voice, the I know something you don't know... Its just classic. Pure class.
And Richie finds out Adam's real name. Presumably real. Everyone treats it as real. But the presence of fake-Methos has to raise the question again, how on earth can they know?
Well, I put the next disc in, so I'm only one episode away from Comes a Horseman and Revelation 6:8.
We know because he might be the oldest, but there are others who are right up there. And he's older than them.
Real Methos.
But not at all who we expect him to be.
I love that about the character Methos. All this time on Earth, and what is he? Just a guy. Just people. *Love* that.
Very philosophical episode, with Richie and Methos and lots of character stuff going on. Conversations about good and evil where no one is, to my mind, ever quite right. Methos being manipulative and snarky. All good.