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Highlander Season Five
Next week: The Valkyrie
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
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Date: 2008-04-03 07:01 pm (UTC)From:http://www.wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/episodes/Season5/Messenger.htm
My comments: I liked a number of things about this episode, but I have to agree with David A. that Ron Perlman’s performance had no real emotional resonance or passion. He was so intent on being the personification of wise and calm that his presence on screen was flat and colorless.
The Andersonville flashback was emotionally strong, if visually rather sparse. It was one of the few times that I felt they didn’t really capitalize on an opportunity to show us a distinct time and place. The “prison” was hardly the horrific, overcrowded death camp we know from historical reports, but the scene where Duncan has to break Jeffrey’s neck was particularly poignant and almost hard to watch.
All the “real” Methos scenes were terrific, and the contrast between OM and the real Methos was deliberately played up in a way that showed us a simultaneously very harsh and coldly pragmatic but caring person, and emphasized how little we know of the “real” personality, motives and thinking of the character.
As a villain, Culbraith was poorly done. They started out well by giving him a real reason for becoming hard and cruel, but in the present day scenes his character was without any focus at all.
I found it interesting that Methos in some ways contradicted his view expressed to Duncan in “The Valkyrie”, where he implied that if it hadn’t been Hitler, it would have been someone else, since “history makes men.” His comments to the OM implied that he considered Genghis Kahn and Hitler truly evil men. Of course, consistency has never seemed to be something Methos cared much about.