'Something Wicked' Musings

[ithildin]

Watching Something Wicked, and it occured to me to wonder -- did the Holy Hot Tub reverse Mac back to a 'blank slate'? Was the fire bomber guy that much worse than Kronos? Not that anything about Dark Quickenings makes all that much sense, but a random thought.

Richie asking if the teacher kills the pupil was bittersweet. [sigh]

Oh, and the fire bomber guy when he was doing his beatnik poet thing about Death. Hah! Don't know why I never made that connection in my brain before.

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[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

I loved the beatnik poet thing about death. Hilarious!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I think it's because I've seen Deliverance way more than SW. For years, all I owned were Methos eps a friend had made me VHS tapes of. Now I'm watching the DVDs in order, I guess i'm picking up 'new' things :)

I'll have to get S 1 & 2 one of these days.

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get S 1 & 2 one of these days.

***shudder***

I know many fans disagree, but I think Season One is *terrible*. Season Two is less terrible, but the series really picks up in Season Three.

Completists will disagree with me, I know, but except for a few episodes you can easily do without the first two seasons.

[mischief5.livejournal.com]

I'm not a completist but I do disagree with you. S1 and S2 laid the ground work for everything that came afterward. Without S1, we wouldn't have had Darius. Without Darius, there wouldn't have been such a stark contrast to Methos. "Band of Brothers", which was the first episode for David A., is worth the price for the entire S1 DVD set. So is "The Hunters", which gives us Fitz and Horton. And without S1, you don't get to see DM in a long-term, stable relationship like he had with Tessa. That alone makes the rest of the series that much more poignant. Watching "Counterfeit" hurts in the same way that "To Be" and "Not To Be" hurt. The "could-have-beens" and the "should-have-beens" of "The Darkness" echo throughout the rest of the seasons.

S1 and S2 aren't as good as 3, 4 and 5, but don't neglect their importance or the gems like "Studies in Light". Even "The Zone" wasn't as bad as you might think. :) It wasn't told as well as it could have been but the story was deeper than it's given credit. JMHO.

[pat-t.livejournal.com]

and while my posts are usually long-winded, here all I can say is :

Yeah *points to mischief* What she said.

[pat-t.livejournal.com]

Now to actually try and answer your question the best way I can by the understanding I had. It wasn't that the fire-bomber was that bad.

It all stems from Coltec being a Hayoka - A native american Holy Man who takes evil into himself to protect his people and bring peace.

He has been taking in all this evil for centuries and like a cup that gets over-filled, when he took the fire-bomber's quickening, it was the evil quickening that ran over - his soul could not absorb anymore evil. The fire-bomber was simply the *last* quickening he took. And the one closest to the surface. But his dark quickening was that he was overloaded with evil now and *all* the evil inside him had saturated his personality and soul and his *true* self could not fight it.

Then when Duncan took Coltec's head - he absorbed all of Coltec's evil quickenings along with all the quickenings he had taken in his own 400 years.

Now all of a sudden his own personality and soul was saturated with all this evil and he tried to fight it, but he couldn't.

[pat-t.livejournal.com]

and to try and make it clearer, Coltec didn't just take evil by taking quickenings of bad immortals. It was more than that. Duncan did that. Remember how Duncan was eat up with rage after Litte Deer was killed. And Coltec used his magic to pull that hate and rage out of him and take it into himself. Duncan tried to do the same to Coltec, but he couldn't because he didn't have that power.

Coltec took hatred and evil into himself from mortals and immortals. He didn't have to take an immortal's head to get it. THough I'm sure that is how he had to do most evil Immortals. But he took in all this evil and hatred for centuries.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Well as a Forever Knight fan, I think series two might be a must for you as Geraint Wyn Davies turns up in an episode. This is also the series where Rebecca (one of my favourite characters even though she only turns up in two episodes!) dies.

And series one should be had for the Darius episodes alone:-)

...of course, having said that, I don't own them myself - yet!

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[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

There's episodes I really like in those seaosns though :)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Me too x 2 :) I just couldn't afford to buy all the seasons, so of course I was going to get the Methos seasons first!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I understood you the first go round [g]

It all makes much more sense in the morning when I'm actually awake and thinking about the episode!

There's a Forever Knight ep that's very similar with a set of knives that the Indian hayoka uses to absorb the evil.

Now, let's say that taking his friend's head hadn't been quite enough to push Duncan into DQ land... would taking the head of someone like Kronos have pushed him over the edge?

And now a random thought... light Qs. Thinking about it, doesn't make sense. Can't work like a DQ. A good person wouldn't suck the good from people...? Okay, brain still too sleepy, will think about it more as the morning goes on.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

On Light Quickenings...

My take on it is that the "Ancient Immortal at the Gates of Paris" was a truly enlightened man. When Darius took his head, he was able to see his own life from a completely different perspective. It made him regret the choices he had made, and choose a new path.

I've been thinking about this while writing Joe's response to the DQ in my new story, "The Secret War." Of course, my OMC Jean-Pierre has a much more lyrical way of putting it!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Err, ooops. I didn't do a very good job of getting back to it, did I?

I very much like your take on it. I'm glad you got back to it even if I didn't :)