HLS4: 'Timeless'

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Highlander Season Four

Chivalry, Air Date: February 1996

World famous pianist Claudia Jardine has a secret that even she doesn't know -- she's destined to become Immortal. Immortal impresario Walter Graham, who has guided the careers of mortal greats like Shakespeare, sees his chance to shepherd Claudia's genius forever and kills her, triggering her latent Immortality -- against MacLeod's better judgment. Meanwhile, Methos has fallen for Alexa, a waitress at Joe's who has a secret of her own.

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Comments

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Well -- count me among the few who gagged on Methos and Alexa. It was a cute idea, but horribly over-written and flatly unbelievable, for me, mainly because of that one scene where Methos wibbles to Mac. We were supposed to accept the thunderbolt of love explanation for Methos being smitten, not seeing much of Alexa that was that terrifically appealing (one aspect that could have been sold so much better in print than as it was on the screen). Without the scene of Methos acting unconvincingly like an insecure adolescent, his infatuation and the other aspects of the relationship, and Methos emerging from Adam Pierson, would have been more compelling and real. But still, it seemed to work for so many people, so go figure. It's Methos In Love in canon and acting cute.

Other than the bad Methos as puppy scene, I quite liked the Shakespeare flashback; I loved Walter as another friend of Duncan's with questionable morals and charisma (whom Duncan spanked but didn't kill); I liked the continuity of Duncan looking out for pre-Immortal friends and for talented young women he stumbled across (in a genial, avuncular sort of way).