HLS4: 'Judgement Day'

[ithildin]

Now that the holidays are over, and I'm back from vacation, I'm starting up the episode discussions once more. This is the last episode for S4, so I'll be putting up the S5 poll soonish like here!

Thanks to everyone who has participated in these discussions. They're much fun!

Highlander Season Four

Judgement Day, Air Date: May 1996

Dawson's life is on the line when the Watchers try him on the charge of treason for his friendship with MacLeod. Watcher deaths have risen dramatically since Dawson first told MacLeod about the Watchers and the Tribunal is determined to punish Joe and stop the killing. MacLeod and Dawson argue his case, but even as the trial goes on, the Watcher killings continue.
~ recap via TV.com

Next week: Season Five!

Comments

[amberleewriter.livejournal.com]

You know, I liked the idea of this episode, but I wasn’t sold on the execution of it. It was chock full of clips from previous episodes,

This is my biggest problem with the episode. It really seemed unnecessary to go over and over the situations with the clips. It's as boring to me as watching the pod race in SW:TPM. Totally unnecessary to the real plot. Presenting the trial as a trial instead of a way to stretch footage would have seemed more meaningful to me and might have given the episode a more powerful punch of character development for both Joe and his Watcher brethren. Methos' arrival at the trial was great but the moment turned into a soliloquy of near Shakespearean proportions (could you give Peter a mirror please?) without the quality and seemed to cross the line of show don't tell.

In spite of this I still like this episode (particularly when I can use the fast forward to skip the never-ending clips). It would be worth watching for me for Joe's execution scene alone.

"On your knees."

"Not in this lifetime."

*snerk*