Highlander the series.
Season 3: Episode 16.
-------METHOS-------
METHOS: An interesting non-linear character!!!!!!!
Highlander the series has an enormous variety of characters both on the side of the immortals and on the side of the mortals. So far we have seen a little bit of everything, from stage performers to Confederate Captains and from Old Chinese Alchemists to many different kind of thieves and foremost many different ways of each one for dealing with either their own mortality or their own immortality, depending the case. Some of the immortals have spent hundreds of years searching for an specific goal like finding a particular answer, others seem to have been trapped by a particular period of their lives they can´t forget either because it was very good or very bad. Most mortals in the series behave almost exactly the same after meeting some immortal than they behaved before, while others change their ways radically, like the Watchers that are dedicated to study them but without ever interfering.
Nevertheless, things are changing, KALAS, a very dangerous immortal man is after Methos, the mythical oldest immortal and nobody, or almost nobody knows if he really exists or even if he ever existed at all. He wants to take METHOS´ head, of course because he wants to become the ultimate and most powerful immortal, able to defeat any opponent, including Duncan.
At this point, I think that there is a small plot hole. Kalas wants to take Methos head mainly because he wants to be able to defeat McCleod, but he doesn´t know if Methos is much better than both McCleod and him, actually, if Methos is really that old, he could be much better than Duncan as he has lived (and survived!) thousands of years, while Duncan is a still young immortal of just 400 and something and we don´t see Kalas making special preparations to defeat the "MYTHICAL METHOS".
Nevertheless, we see Kalas confronting Methos and when Methos sees that he can´t or more precisely, that he is not sure that he can defeat Kalas, changes the strategy and this sense, he prefers being smarter than braver. He first goes to find Duncan and fight him, one way of seeing at the story is that he wanted to get Duncan´s power or have an honest match with him so that the winner of the duel had the combined power of the two and could defeat Kalas with ease. That is very important, because if someone as evil as Kalas could become the last and therefore most powerful immortal he could make humankind suffer eternally, as it has been mentioned previously in the series. Nevertheless, the way that both Duncan and, I assume, most of the viewers see the match is that Methos wanted to see if Duncan was good enough to defeat Kalas in which case he could stop the duel telling him it was just a test , or else, let Duncan defeat him, take his head and inherit him with his 5200 or so years of power!!! His strategy nevertheless didn´t work as Duncan refused to take his head as maybe Methos made too obvious that he didn´t have any intention of hurting, let alone killing Duncan. Ok, till this point, both of our heroes have survived...but they still have to face Kalas!!!!!!!
This odd but great episode marks both the beginning of the unlikely friendship between the oldest immortal whose origins fade in the night of times and the Highlander from the Highlands of Scotland and of a series of episodes that will show the confrontation of the way of solving things of Duncan that is normally direct and linear and the one of Methos, that is normally creative and normally non-linear... oh, and Methos, differently to other immortals, even when he is great at fencing, he normally prefers peace and quiet...even maybe a little too much! which makes him sometimes more interesting as we normally never see him fighting at his full capacity to the end and nobody really knows how good he really is.
And talking about Kalas, will they confront him using a direct strategy like the ones of Duncan or a non-linear (and maybe unexpected) one like the ones of Methos?
Just as a final note, as some of the important immortal villains of Highlander have or will have names that start with the letter K, like Kalas in this episode,some fans around the world like to call them K-IMMIES (immortals with the letter K) :) :)
Thanks for reading.
IMDb Review written by David del Real.
Mexico City, Mexico.
December 2017.
Season 3: Episode 16.
-------METHOS-------
METHOS: An interesting non-linear character!!!!!!!
Highlander the series has an enormous variety of characters both on the side of the immortals and on the side of the mortals. So far we have seen a little bit of everything, from stage performers to Confederate Captains and from Old Chinese Alchemists to many different kind of thieves and foremost many different ways of each one for dealing with either their own mortality or their own immortality, depending the case. Some of the immortals have spent hundreds of years searching for an specific goal like finding a particular answer, others seem to have been trapped by a particular period of their lives they can´t forget either because it was very good or very bad. Most mortals in the series behave almost exactly the same after meeting some immortal than they behaved before, while others change their ways radically, like the Watchers that are dedicated to study them but without ever interfering.
Nevertheless, things are changing, KALAS, a very dangerous immortal man is after Methos, the mythical oldest immortal and nobody, or almost nobody knows if he really exists or even if he ever existed at all. He wants to take METHOS´ head, of course because he wants to become the ultimate and most powerful immortal, able to defeat any opponent, including Duncan.
At this point, I think that there is a small plot hole. Kalas wants to take Methos head mainly because he wants to be able to defeat McCleod, but he doesn´t know if Methos is much better than both McCleod and him, actually, if Methos is really that old, he could be much better than Duncan as he has lived (and survived!) thousands of years, while Duncan is a still young immortal of just 400 and something and we don´t see Kalas making special preparations to defeat the "MYTHICAL METHOS".
Nevertheless, we see Kalas confronting Methos and when Methos sees that he can´t or more precisely, that he is not sure that he can defeat Kalas, changes the strategy and this sense, he prefers being smarter than braver. He first goes to find Duncan and fight him, one way of seeing at the story is that he wanted to get Duncan´s power or have an honest match with him so that the winner of the duel had the combined power of the two and could defeat Kalas with ease. That is very important, because if someone as evil as Kalas could become the last and therefore most powerful immortal he could make humankind suffer eternally, as it has been mentioned previously in the series. Nevertheless, the way that both Duncan and, I assume, most of the viewers see the match is that Methos wanted to see if Duncan was good enough to defeat Kalas in which case he could stop the duel telling him it was just a test , or else, let Duncan defeat him, take his head and inherit him with his 5200 or so years of power!!! His strategy nevertheless didn´t work as Duncan refused to take his head as maybe Methos made too obvious that he didn´t have any intention of hurting, let alone killing Duncan. Ok, till this point, both of our heroes have survived...but they still have to face Kalas!!!!!!!
This odd but great episode marks both the beginning of the unlikely friendship between the oldest immortal whose origins fade in the night of times and the Highlander from the Highlands of Scotland and of a series of episodes that will show the confrontation of the way of solving things of Duncan that is normally direct and linear and the one of Methos, that is normally creative and normally non-linear... oh, and Methos, differently to other immortals, even when he is great at fencing, he normally prefers peace and quiet...even maybe a little too much! which makes him sometimes more interesting as we normally never see him fighting at his full capacity to the end and nobody really knows how good he really is.
And talking about Kalas, will they confront him using a direct strategy like the ones of Duncan or a non-linear (and maybe unexpected) one like the ones of Methos?
Just as a final note, as some of the important immortal villains of Highlander have or will have names that start with the letter K, like Kalas in this episode,some fans around the world like to call them K-IMMIES (immortals with the letter K) :) :)
Thanks for reading.
IMDb Review written by David del Real.
Mexico City, Mexico.
December 2017.