HLS5: 'The Messenger'

[ithildin]

Let's see if this episode generates more interest than 'Glory Days' did!

Highlander Season Five

The Messenger
Air Date: Nov. 1996

Richie's found a new teacher: an Immortal who preaches a message of peace. An Immortal who believes that all Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers. An Immortal who claims to be the oldest of their kind still alive -- Methos. Will laying down his sword in the name of peace mean Richie will lose his head? And what does this mean for the friend MacLeod already calls Methos?
~ recap via TV.com

Next week: The Valkyrie

Comments

[eance.livejournal.com]

I couldn't hack the fake Methos, perhaps he was meant to be serene but IMHO he was just plain wooden. Richie was too smart and street wise to be taken in by him.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yay! You made it! Nice to see you :)

[eance.livejournal.com]

Cheers!
I`m very slowly getting the suss on LJ, maybe I should change my default to a tortoise...

[juniperphoenix]

I love this episode, but you're right, Ron Perlman was awful. David Abramowitz even commented on the DVD that he felt Perlman was "phoning it in." I wish they had cast someone more like Victor Paulus from "Band of Brothers." I think a better actor in that role would have made the moral dilemma more keenly felt.

(Nevertheless, "Methos meets Methos" is one of my favorite Highlander scenes ever.)

[lannamichaels]

Ron Perlman completely phoned it in. I wonder why they were even discussing how utterly fantastic Perlman could be in the DVD thingie when it was pretty clear from the episode that Perlman couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. Then again, I haven't seen anything else he's been in. Anyone have any recommendations?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

He was the lead in the TV series Beauty and the Beast and was amazing.