The Road Not Taken
Dec. 31st, 2005 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Tessa leaves first thing in the episode. Excellent. Well, technically it's the second thing, but the crazy herb guy trying to rob the diamond exchange was way less important than Tessa being gone until the end of the episode. She's much more tolerable in small doses.
Richie's friend (the crazy herb guy) dies from the crazy herbs (that give you super-strength and make you obedient and fearless or something) so there were a lot of closeups on Richie's sad, sad eyes and Stan Kirsch has very pretty blue eyes so I'm willing to let his whole "I will protect you, Angie, because you are a girl" spiel slide. And the show itself sort of pokes fun at him for that, so it's all good.
The recurring police guy from the first episode calls Richie 'Dickie' ::shudder:: and then he said Richie's dead friend was acting like King Kong on angeldust. Interestingly, in the premiere of C.S.I. Catherine has a line about "King Kong on cocaine". Is someone on the CSI writing staff a Highlander fan?
The shot of Adrian in the bright blue shirt from the opening credits (shows up when Freddie's singing "We're the princes of the universe") is from this episode and Mac has stolen Richie's red boots for the flashback. Another thing from the opening sequence I noticed this time around was that Stan's credit comes up right as Freddie's singing "I am immortal". Coincidence?
I love how Duncan's all don't go after this guy because he's an immortal and Richie instantly agrees okay and then totally goes after the guy anyway. It's a TV staple, but still: Ha!
Richie on Duncan: "He's the cutting edge of the antique world." That just works on sooo many levels.
And this episode Duncan gets the 80s music montage of searching. I guess it's really early 90s music of montaging, but it's close enough to the 80s that it sounds 80s-ish.
And then the Chinese guy (non-immortal (oh and the immortal is Kiem Sun, so we're good on the 'K' this ep) is tricking the dumb American hoodlums into drinking the crazy herb in a tea ceremony and when Richie and Angie show up and everybody runs away (assuming it's the cops, I guess) all the tough guys place their tea cups gently down on the hood of the car before running away.
Then Richie has his first sword fight except his sword is a piece of pipe or something and he loses horribly, but Duncan shows up to save him. And when Duncan and Kiem Sun are fighting they keep doing this lame-ass thing where they'll speed up the film and it just looks dumb. Especially since according to the extra Adrian did all his own stunts which is pretty impressive considering all the jumping around and backflips he was doing. I know AP has dance and martial arts background and such, but his fight scenes in the first episode were really lame. I guess they didn't want him showing up CL. And then last episode there was no immortal (though he did beat up a mortal guy, briefly) and this is the second episode in a row with no Quickening. The evil immortal was formerly a friend of his but they did a "The next time I see you, I'll kill you for real" thing, so no convulsions.
A potential downside of the Metallicar is that its roof does not appear to be removable. Because if Adrian Paul looks hot jumping out of his black vintage convertible (Thunderbird, not Impala) just imagine The Ackles. Yeah. I'll be in my bunk.
Richie's friend (the crazy herb guy) dies from the crazy herbs (that give you super-strength and make you obedient and fearless or something) so there were a lot of closeups on Richie's sad, sad eyes and Stan Kirsch has very pretty blue eyes so I'm willing to let his whole "I will protect you, Angie, because you are a girl" spiel slide. And the show itself sort of pokes fun at him for that, so it's all good.
The recurring police guy from the first episode calls Richie 'Dickie' ::shudder:: and then he said Richie's dead friend was acting like King Kong on angeldust. Interestingly, in the premiere of C.S.I. Catherine has a line about "King Kong on cocaine". Is someone on the CSI writing staff a Highlander fan?
The shot of Adrian in the bright blue shirt from the opening credits (shows up when Freddie's singing "We're the princes of the universe") is from this episode and Mac has stolen Richie's red boots for the flashback. Another thing from the opening sequence I noticed this time around was that Stan's credit comes up right as Freddie's singing "I am immortal". Coincidence?
I love how Duncan's all don't go after this guy because he's an immortal and Richie instantly agrees okay and then totally goes after the guy anyway. It's a TV staple, but still: Ha!
Richie on Duncan: "He's the cutting edge of the antique world." That just works on sooo many levels.
And this episode Duncan gets the 80s music montage of searching. I guess it's really early 90s music of montaging, but it's close enough to the 80s that it sounds 80s-ish.
And then the Chinese guy (non-immortal (oh and the immortal is Kiem Sun, so we're good on the 'K' this ep) is tricking the dumb American hoodlums into drinking the crazy herb in a tea ceremony and when Richie and Angie show up and everybody runs away (assuming it's the cops, I guess) all the tough guys place their tea cups gently down on the hood of the car before running away.
Then Richie has his first sword fight except his sword is a piece of pipe or something and he loses horribly, but Duncan shows up to save him. And when Duncan and Kiem Sun are fighting they keep doing this lame-ass thing where they'll speed up the film and it just looks dumb. Especially since according to the extra Adrian did all his own stunts which is pretty impressive considering all the jumping around and backflips he was doing. I know AP has dance and martial arts background and such, but his fight scenes in the first episode were really lame. I guess they didn't want him showing up CL. And then last episode there was no immortal (though he did beat up a mortal guy, briefly) and this is the second episode in a row with no Quickening. The evil immortal was formerly a friend of his but they did a "The next time I see you, I'll kill you for real" thing, so no convulsions.
A potential downside of the Metallicar is that its roof does not appear to be removable. Because if Adrian Paul looks hot jumping out of his black vintage convertible (Thunderbird, not Impala) just imagine The Ackles. Yeah. I'll be in my bunk.
