'Finale'

[ithildin]

Welcome to our second installment of Methos Episode discussion! You can find the first one, for 'Methos' here.

Finale Parts One & Two, Air Date: May 1995

Amanda accidentally helps Kalas escape from prison by trying to do MacLeod a favor and kill Kalas for him. After an attempt on Maurice's life thwarted by MacLeod, Kalas kidnaps Amanda to use as bait against MacLeod, but Amanda manages to escape.

Meanwhile, Christine Salzer, the widow of a Watcher killed by Kalas (in "Methos") decides to get her revenge on Immortals and Watchers alike by exposing their secret to the media. Dawson and Methos team up to try and talk Christine out of it, but she's determined to take a computer disk with the identities of all known Immortals and Watchers on it to a newspaper publisher. Dawson, desperate, tries to kill her outside the newspaper building, but is stopped by MacLeod and Methos. Christine enters the building and the Immortals and the Watchers know their lives are about to change forever.

As Christine tells her tale to the newspaper publisher, MacLeod and Amanda, knowing their world is about to end, finally admit they love each other. Kalas kills Christine and the publisher and steals the computer disk before they have a chance to spread the story. Kalas offers MacLeod a deal -- MacLeod offers up his head or the contents of the disk are made public. Dawson and the Watchers attempt to find Kalas, but this only results in more dead Watchers.

Methos tries to talk MacLeod out of it, but MacLeod agrees to fight Kalas on top of the Eiffel Tower. Kalas is defeated and the resulting Quickening, amplified by the Tower, sends a power surge that disrupts every computer in the vicinity -- including Kalas'. The information on the disk is destroyed and Immortals and Watchers maintain their anonymity. ~via tv.com

Next week, we'll move on to Season Four with Chivalry and Timeless (I love Chivalry!)

A few quotes below the curtain





Joe: What were you thinking about?
Methos: I wasn't thinking, I was improvising.
Joe: By cutting yourself open? It took you five thousand years to come up with that?
Methos: What were you expecting? Einstein? Freud? Buddha? I'm sorry, Joe, I'm just a guy.
Joe: I guess next you're gonna tell me there's no Santa Claus.
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Methos: "The passion of youth."
Duncan: "Boys will be boys."
Methos: And "every cloud has a silver lining."
Duncan: What d'you mean?
Methos: If you die, Amanda will be free to date.
Duncan: That's a comfort.
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Methos: I was in Rome once, ninety-three AD, Coliseum, I saw Christians facing the lions. Some of them looked almost happy to die for their faith.
Duncan: Your point or we just strolling down memory lane here?
Methos: But afterwards the only ones looking happy were the lions.
Duncan: This isn't about faith.
Methos: No, it's about sacrifice. It's a hell of a thing to be a martyr, MacLeod, and that's what Kalas wants; he's pushing all your buttons.
Duncan: Well, I'm open to suggestions; enlighten me.
Methos: Maybe Amanda's right; you fight your best fight.
Duncan: What, every man for himself and to hell with the rest?
Methos: So what if the world finds out. Life is about change, civilizations rise and fall.
Duncan: This isn't about civilizations, this is about people. Amanda, Dawson, Richie. Our world is not an ant farm.

Comments

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think there's a difference between learning to be a doctor, and being Einstein.

"It's good to keep busy," Methos says in "Chivalry," and he has obviously kept busy! But he can't become *great*, at least in part because Immortals cannot really afford to have high profiles. But also because of the other stuff I said.

I *love* the fact that Methos and Mac have both spent so much of their long long lives learning. I think this is what I'd do if I were Immortal--get a billion doctoral degrees. But again, you can't really become a well-known academic (ha ha oxymoron right there) because it would call attention to your non-aging self.

It must be tiring, having to hide all the time.

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Byron was the Byron, and simply because he's the only historical character in the course of the series that they happened to "out" doesn't mean he was an exception that proved the norm. Nothing keeps Highlander Immortals from being great.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten about Byron, to tell you the truth. Highlander, as far as famous folk go, is something of an alternate history/universe. Don't even get me started on Flora McDonald! :)

You all are giving me so much to think about!

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

But remember the chick in "Timeless," who felt she lost her gift when she became Immortal?

Byron is a good counter-argument, though.

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

But remember the chick in "Timeless," who felt she lost her gift when she became Immortal?

I remember Claudia just fine. I believe her feelings were a matter of her personal psychology, not of a restriction on Immortals. She told Duncan that for her she needed to feel human in a particular fashion to feel her music. There's no particular reason for that psychology to hold true for another Immortal artist, much less for it to be true for an Immortal scientist.

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

One thing that never seemed right about Byron (jumping ahead) is that he should have been a foundling, and yet was born into this wealthy aristocratic family. Ok so he might have been adopted, but upper class families weren't exactly known for taking in orphans of dubious parentage.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine how many books I'd have....

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! Gobs and gobs of books!