A Watcher, Rita, is helping immortal Michael Christian to take out other immortals. One of the immortals Michael kills is May-Ling, an old friend of Duncan. Christian is in town and his new target is Duncan. In the meantime, a few watcher friends of Joe's are around including Ian Bancroft, May-Ling's watcher. Ian appears to be a top dog watcher and used to be Darius' watcher.
Rita and Michael have a creepy relationship, didn't they? It appears almost like mother and son, yet also sexual. Weird. Michael Christian seems almost passive about everything and does whatever Rita tells him. He strikes me as being dumb.
There's another double flashback here. Duncan flashes back to 1780 when he meets May-Ling. In the flashback his flashes back to 1778 when he was with Hideo Koto.
I loved that May-Ling, a woman was a master and one of his teachers. She trains him in the 'Way of the White Crane.' I believe this is the style we saw a lot starting with episode one of season two. Duncan and May-Ling become lovers. Because as you know every woman that crosses Duncan's path goes gaga over him.
Did you notice that Kiem Sun was mentioned here? He was in season's one, 'The Road not Taken." Pretty cool that they reflected that.
I found it dumb that Michael killed May-Ling. All she had to do was use her feet to push away from the wall of the pool. She had loads of time. Poorly done scene.
So the Watchers had a man in Mongolia back in 1778 did they? Honestly, I think the Watcher origins needed to be told. I view them as evil. Not Joe or Methos. But overall.
So was Rita right about caring about those they watch? Or was Ian right about not caring? I kinda got the impression that Ian saw them as "its." Although later he sounds like a hypocrite when talking about Darius. Joe seems to have the best outlook. I think he still sees them as human beings because he can see the humanity in some of them, such as Duncan and Richie. I have to say Joe does help Duncan tho. And that does give him an unfair advantage. But what can you do? I liked Joe, and his character was always written to be in conflict with himself.
Did you notice the new scene that they inserted in Duncan's fight with Grayson? Of a shadowy figure walking away? That was Joe. "I only saw the beginning. Looked like MacLeod was finished, and, uh, I didn't want to stick around and see it happen." Kinda neat that they added that scene.
Michael Christan was lame. He had a sword and Duncan didn't. And Duncan still beat him! That made me chuckle. I wonder what happened to Rita? The Watchers kill her?
This episode had quite a few clips from previous episodes. Almost a little bit like a clip show, but not quite. I still enjoyed it. It gave some more rich history about Duncan. I gave it an 8/10.
Rita and Michael have a creepy relationship, didn't they? It appears almost like mother and son, yet also sexual. Weird. Michael Christian seems almost passive about everything and does whatever Rita tells him. He strikes me as being dumb.
There's another double flashback here. Duncan flashes back to 1780 when he meets May-Ling. In the flashback his flashes back to 1778 when he was with Hideo Koto.
I loved that May-Ling, a woman was a master and one of his teachers. She trains him in the 'Way of the White Crane.' I believe this is the style we saw a lot starting with episode one of season two. Duncan and May-Ling become lovers. Because as you know every woman that crosses Duncan's path goes gaga over him.
Did you notice that Kiem Sun was mentioned here? He was in season's one, 'The Road not Taken." Pretty cool that they reflected that.
I found it dumb that Michael killed May-Ling. All she had to do was use her feet to push away from the wall of the pool. She had loads of time. Poorly done scene.
So the Watchers had a man in Mongolia back in 1778 did they? Honestly, I think the Watcher origins needed to be told. I view them as evil. Not Joe or Methos. But overall.
So was Rita right about caring about those they watch? Or was Ian right about not caring? I kinda got the impression that Ian saw them as "its." Although later he sounds like a hypocrite when talking about Darius. Joe seems to have the best outlook. I think he still sees them as human beings because he can see the humanity in some of them, such as Duncan and Richie. I have to say Joe does help Duncan tho. And that does give him an unfair advantage. But what can you do? I liked Joe, and his character was always written to be in conflict with himself.
Did you notice the new scene that they inserted in Duncan's fight with Grayson? Of a shadowy figure walking away? That was Joe. "I only saw the beginning. Looked like MacLeod was finished, and, uh, I didn't want to stick around and see it happen." Kinda neat that they added that scene.
Michael Christan was lame. He had a sword and Duncan didn't. And Duncan still beat him! That made me chuckle. I wonder what happened to Rita? The Watchers kill her?
This episode had quite a few clips from previous episodes. Almost a little bit like a clip show, but not quite. I still enjoyed it. It gave some more rich history about Duncan. I gave it an 8/10.
