Episode Rewatch: 6.12 To Be
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Original air date: May 10, 1998
Director: Richard Martin
Writer: David Tynan
Synopsis: When Amanda and Joe are captured by Immortal Liam O'Rourke, Duncan surrenders himself to save their lives. Methos comes to the rescue, but Duncan is shot and finds himself in a dream world where he never lived, with Hugh Fitzcairn as his guide.
Please share your thoughts and reactions in comments. The master post for all discussion posts is here.
Original air date: May 10, 1998
Director: Richard Martin
Writer: David Tynan
Synopsis: When Amanda and Joe are captured by Immortal Liam O'Rourke, Duncan surrenders himself to save their lives. Methos comes to the rescue, but Duncan is shot and finds himself in a dream world where he never lived, with Hugh Fitzcairn as his guide.
Please share your thoughts and reactions in comments. The master post for all discussion posts is here.
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Date: 2016-11-07 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-11-07 03:03 pm (UTC)But I don't think I ever really took note of the fact that the barge is already emptied completely of furniture at the beginning of the episode. Amanda and Duncan have sex on the floor. There's only one table and a shelf left in the place. Even the lamps are gone—there's one clip-on light in the kitchen. So, it seems pretty obvious that at the very least, Duncan was already planning to leave Paris, and had one foot out the door.
This episode's timeline puts it somewhere right around the HL:The Raven episode "The French Connection," in which Amanda has just seen Joe in Toronto, and ends up following a Kronos-lookalike from her own past to Paris after semi-faking her own death so that Nick won't follow her. I always find that interesting. Her "man about a camel" is fairly complicated.
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Date: 2016-11-13 05:25 am (UTC)~ barge rattling sex!
~ Methos winding Joe up! haha. Although honestly I have a hard time believing that Joe doesn't know what a real vomitorium is. (i.e. an exit, not a place where you vomit, although I always laugh at this because I'm sure many people vomit in the vomitorium so Methos is technically not lying!)
~ Methos putting on his coat and going with Duncan. <3 <3 <3
~ "MacLeod, your pants are on fire!" "Doesn't matte what I say, does it? Well, I've only been alive for 5000 years, what would I know about it." <3 times infinity. Love for both of them. Love love love the complexities in their friendship/relationship.
~ "you're telling me you're an angel?" hee. few things make me as happy as Duncan and Fitz. Duncan's face during this whole conversation gives me life. "why can't I be an angel?" HEE
~ femme fatale Amanda is so gorgeous. lol.
~ I feel for Jim Byrnes, wearing that wig. yowsa.
~ Horton is the most persistent bad penny ever. At least he's consistent? Whether in fantasy or reality, the man doesn't change.
~ Of course the ep ends with Tessa.
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Date: 2016-11-15 04:43 pm (UTC)Agreed! I suspect this is Joe's long game. Play dumb and gullible, and wait for the bits of truth Methos sprinkles in amongst the tall tales. :D
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Date: 2016-11-13 05:02 pm (UTC)You know the last Highlander Worldwide con in 2009 was in LA and had a really large number of cast and crew there and when they showed the final scenes of the two-parter there was hardly a tear-free eye on stage and off. The finale of the finale was so good.
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Date: 2016-11-13 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-11-15 03:25 am (UTC)Love the opening – Rockin the barge, lol.
And the Duncan pout. Cute.
Love Methos talking to Joe. Hahaha. He just twists Joe around and has so much fun doing it. And Joe loves it too.
Methos: We ate, we drank, we vomited." LOL!
Methos had great lines:
I'm kind of fond of the little vixen, myself.
Methos is so frustrated when he tries to talk Mac out of going to meet O'Rouke. Doesn't matter what I say, does it? I've only been alive for 5,000 years. What do I know about it!
It's so clear how much Methos cares about Mac.
And this is such a lovely little example of their differences:
M: People die MacLeod. Immortals…die.
D: Yeah, but not because of me. Not any more.
Poor Mac. So many have died during the series because of him. I totally understand his disillusionment. And poor Methos too.
M: Goodbye.
D: I think you mean good luck, don't you?
M: Of course…I…that's what I meant.
Mac is feeling just so guilty and depressed and upset. When he blows up at Fitz: What about Richie, Tessa? What about you? You'd still be alive if it weren't for me! I just want to hug him.
The whole "It's a Wonderful life" has certainly been overused, but I didn't mind it. I think it worked here.
I don't really agree that Amanda would have ended up a serial murderer if not for Mac. I actually think that's ridiculous. Rebecca is the biggest influence on her and I don't think she would ever dishonor Rebecca like that. But it worked for the story.
Nor do I think Joe would have gone so downhill. OMG, that wig. Why? And the wheelchair. Again, why? I had a lot of trouble getting past those two things. I loved Joe's line to Mac: You are a dangerous bastard, aren't you.
I have to watch the last ep. I want to and I don't, cause then it will be over, ya know. And I think I need this escape now more than ever!
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Date: 2016-11-15 04:46 pm (UTC)This. Nor do I think Richie would have fallen for Kronos's schtick. I do pretty much buy Tessa's storyline, but the Amanda and Richie ones seem so far out there to me that I choose to believe it was a dream.