Highlander... more thoughts
May. 16th, 2003 03:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalStudies in Light was shown tonight on TNN. It's one of my top favorite episodes ever, and so I took an hour just to sit and watch it, no distractions. Well worth it. They cut out one scene with Duncan and Tessa and put in a different scene with Duncan and Tessa I'd never seen before which was a riot and VERY interesting as far as foreshadowing to episodes like Shadows and the dark quickening eps... not to mention other eps like the horsemen ones and Modern Prometheus.
Anyway, boyfriend didn't understand it. Given that I've seen it a hundred times AT LEAST and love it to death, and that it deals with a LOT of heavy immie issues... but he didn't understand it. Which doesn't make me feel very good. I really appreciate that he watched it (though I mentioned to him that he should about 10 times) but sometimes I just REALLY need philosophical discussions like the ones this HL episode brings out. What it's like to be an immie artist (oohhh another tie- Timeless), what it's like to be an immie doctor and be helpless to save people, what it's like to live on and on with the same things going on around you and unable to feel part of them, unable to feel the pain and fear towards dying, difference between the concept of life for mortals and those who are immortal... and then the Richie line (knowing he'll be an immie in a few episodes!). There's SO much to think about, really as far as Gregor- not to mention the Linda plotline. And I've had the discussion with people MANY times *sigh* on the old Highlander forums... but every time I watch the episode I bring something else out of it. I think the Justin art influence over me... and some things I've been thinking about since One Hour Photo... really made this episode fantastic tonight for me. Reeeeeeally makes me think about what makes life special and how we express it, experience it, and feel it.
Point is that it's kind of sad not to be able to have the lengthy, over-analyzing discussions with him. He always has a way of making me feel stupid when I express my thoughts about things- not that the ideas are stupid, just that he makes me think I'm stupid... or he frickin cuts me off in mid scentence. I dunno.
*forces a smile* BUT I'm going to go see Down with Love tomorrow alone. *sits up bravely in chair* THAT will be fun. Yeppers. I just need to wake up in time for it. LOL Headache all day, wasn't fun, I think it has something to do with my sleep patterns. Oh, but the eclipse tonight- BEAUTIFUL! That was fun to see.
Anyway, boyfriend didn't understand it. Given that I've seen it a hundred times AT LEAST and love it to death, and that it deals with a LOT of heavy immie issues... but he didn't understand it. Which doesn't make me feel very good. I really appreciate that he watched it (though I mentioned to him that he should about 10 times) but sometimes I just REALLY need philosophical discussions like the ones this HL episode brings out. What it's like to be an immie artist (oohhh another tie- Timeless), what it's like to be an immie doctor and be helpless to save people, what it's like to live on and on with the same things going on around you and unable to feel part of them, unable to feel the pain and fear towards dying, difference between the concept of life for mortals and those who are immortal... and then the Richie line (knowing he'll be an immie in a few episodes!). There's SO much to think about, really as far as Gregor- not to mention the Linda plotline. And I've had the discussion with people MANY times *sigh* on the old Highlander forums... but every time I watch the episode I bring something else out of it. I think the Justin art influence over me... and some things I've been thinking about since One Hour Photo... really made this episode fantastic tonight for me. Reeeeeeally makes me think about what makes life special and how we express it, experience it, and feel it.
Point is that it's kind of sad not to be able to have the lengthy, over-analyzing discussions with him. He always has a way of making me feel stupid when I express my thoughts about things- not that the ideas are stupid, just that he makes me think I'm stupid... or he frickin cuts me off in mid scentence. I dunno.
*forces a smile* BUT I'm going to go see Down with Love tomorrow alone. *sits up bravely in chair* THAT will be fun. Yeppers. I just need to wake up in time for it. LOL Headache all day, wasn't fun, I think it has something to do with my sleep patterns. Oh, but the eclipse tonight- BEAUTIFUL! That was fun to see.
