Highlander

[sg_lab2]

I was watching the Sci-fi channel last week and saw an advertizement for the latest Highlander movie. Highlander: The Sourc. The Scifi channel was airing it this past weekend. I watched it today. It was as I suspected, pretty bad.

It had its moments, but honestly I think they should have stopped at the first movie. I enjoyed the TV series too (except for season 6).

I've often come across a comment (mainly regarding SGA of late) that anytime the male hero is flirting with a woman or there's a woman to have a thing with the hero it's to prove the hero's heterosexuality. I generally find that comment rather silly. But watching Highlander: The Source never have I agreed more. Duncan MacLeod has a wife now. A mortal woman I really couldn't have cared less about. They kill Joe Dawson and later when he's talking with the wife he's telling her all about the people that he has loved who have died. All the names he gave were women who had been past lovers.

Methos was in the movie as well. The last conversation he and Duncan have is rather unsatisfying considering all those two have been through together for the last several years. And then there was something about The One was the immortal who could have a baby.

ETA: S4 of SGA can't get here fast enough. The S/W thread is just so boring when it's all talk about things I haven't seen yet.

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[mizz-magenta.livejournal.com]

ETA: S4 of SGA can't get here fast enough. The S/W thread is just so boring when it's all talk about things I haven't seen yet.

I can't say it's ever bothered me. If it was a spoiler I didn't want to read then I'd just scroll past and if it was I did read, it usually made me more eager to see the ep, and come up with questions and theories (half of which were nullified when I actually the ep, lol)
If the current topics are boring to you, why not post about something you would find interesting to talk about? There's enough people in the thread that I'm sure someone would pick it up. :)

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. I've been curious about the movie, but I've never watched any of them. I guess I prefer the canon in my head to stay with the TV series, which I did enjoy. You're right though - S6 was pretty bad. They didn't even really put in an effort. :S And I so hated what they did to Richie. Anyway, now that I know they kill Joe off, I know I don't want to watch it. :)

Yeah, we do need S4 to come quickly. I think everyone's a little on edge right now. I don't know if it'll get better once the season airs, or if it's just the calm before the storm. :S Let's hope not.

[sg-lab.livejournal.com]

I had been looking up actor Peter Wingfield who played Methos a couple years ago when I noticed there was a new Highlander movie being made. I kept looking to see if it was done, but eventually forgot about it and just happened to see it advertized last week. It must have been a straight to DVD release unlike the previous movies that had a motion picture release.

I think if you watched the tv show and then this movie it is a bit of a disappointment because Duncan Joe and Methos would probably be the reasons you'd want to watch it (or at least a significant reason). Unfortunately the relationship among these three doesn't come through as well as it could have. And killing Joe as quickly as they did was just bad and wrong.

I think the only thing that really made Richie's death okay for me was that I thought they handled the aftermath well.

I think my favorite s6 episode didn't even have Duncan MacLeod in it. It was the one with Methos and Joe only.

As far as SGA goes, I just really want to stay away from spoilers as much as possible for this season. And with the leaking of the first two eps. there are a lot of conversations about them. I know I can contribute something that doesn't have to do with s4, but I'm just waiting right now for the episodes to start to contribute.

Of course once we're finished with those four eps. with Weir it's gonna be a real mine field. ;)