Highlander - 2x4 "The Darkness" Full Reaction
Added 2022-11-19 07:42:03 +0000 UTC
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I haven't watched Highlander in sequence since I was a kid (and even then I first started the show after Tessa had died), but I've been watching your reactions from episode 1, and it really struck me how the first few episodes of season 2 really built to this moment. MacLeod full of grief for Darius, and saying goodbye to an old lover as she dies. Gregor and Michael, both devastated and twisted by the pain and loss that comes with immortality. Gregor studying Richie's fear of death, knowing he could kill him without really killing him.
Patrick Coyle
2022-12-28 23:59:21 +0000 UTCAnd that this is not even the most dramatic moment of the series to accept, because at least this was fatality,
Anna De Luca
2022-11-26 22:45:56 +0000 UTCHI ,yes It is one of the saddest episodes, you have reacted exactly like everyone watching this episode for the first time, Tessa was the greatest love for Duncan. The thing you didn't understend because you were crying, is that Duncan tells Richie that he is one of them because now Richie is an immortal, you maybe don't know the concept of pre-immortality because it's the first time you see it , Richie was a pre-immortal and in previous episodes there are so many clues that suggest it. A pre-immortal can have exactly the same existence as that of mortals, they can age and die a natural death unless he suffers a violent death and then he becomes immortals and the physical growth is blocked at the age of the first death. Duncan knows from the first episode that Richie was one of them, because of that Connor tells Duncan to take care of Richie. Immortals can feel the presence of the pre-immortals as well as that of the immortals, the only difference is that the 'Buzz' ( the sensation of feel the immortals presence is called : 'Sense of Buzz' ) of the pre-immortals is lighter. And Duncan tells Richie to sell the shop, not the car.
Anna De Luca
2022-11-26 22:29:31 +0000 UTCBTW, Duncan told Richie to sell the shop, not his car.
James Miller
2022-11-21 04:55:39 +0000 UTCNow you know why I don’t cry over deaths in Supernatural, watching this numbed me and made me jaded.
Gabriel Mauller
2022-11-19 23:03:28 +0000 UTCI’m so sorry, Shelley. I have been dreading you getting to this episode since episode 1x10 in February. I just knew how heartbreaking it would be….😿 Shashank already shared that leaving was the actress’s choice. That is one small consolation. We will never know if Tessa would have made it to the end of the show. I am guessing you are right that she would have been fridges at some point, *sigh*
AdoptDontShopPets
2022-11-19 16:09:59 +0000 UTCI was dreading you reaching this episode for a while since it was clear how much you loved Tessa. Every time you'd talk about how much you liked her it felt bittersweet knowing she would die so early in the show. Part of me was like maybe Shelley will never make it this far in the reactions... Tessa is surprisingly a divisive character in the fandom. But for me her death still hits hard because I always found her to be such a great character (smart, funny, outspoken, empathetic, brave, and open), and Duncan and Tessa's relationship was just one of the best, healthiest, and most playful relationships I've seen on tv. That montage at the end is heartbreaking. You calling the marriage proposal right before Duncan said it was a sweet moment. Behind the scenes info from imdb: "Alexandera Vandernoot's first major role in a television production was that of Tessa Noël...While the role of Tessa made Vandernoot famous for a while, she found the work schedule of the series to be exhausting. "Highlander" had twice as many episodes per season as the average European television series, and she had to appear in all of them. Shootings for the series took place in two different series: Vancouver, Canada and Paris, France. This required Vandernoot to spend several months in Canada, where she had no family or friends. She found herself missing her family, and she requested to leave the series in order to re-establish contact with them." She really stuck with shooting shows in or close to France after this (glad it worked out for her though selfishly I would have loved to see her in more easy to access shows in America ngl). From all I'm aware the writers had not planned on killing Tessa and thought Duncan and her had great onscreen chemistry (they did!). I recall reading an interview (can't find it right now) where the show writers said when they were thinking of ways to write Tessa off the show, the idea of them breaking up or going their separate ways just didn't work because they'd build up the relationship too much. It would be unbelievable that Duncan or Tessa would just leave each other and I mostly agree with that. So they decided to kill her and it was just a question of how. I think the episode is a well made horror episode, while the death at the end is more just there. I definitely prefer it being a random killing over that watcher/hunter guy having killed her. Sucks that the Downton Abbey and this episode fell back to back for you
Shashank
2022-11-19 10:28:58 +0000 UTCsending some hugs even before watching this one
Shashank
2022-11-19 08:08:06 +0000 UTC
