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  • 1.7: The Ex-Files, War and Peace, Dead on Arrival

    Discuss the final episodes of this short-lived spinoff. You can watch these episodes on YouTube via Cinedigm for $1.99 apiece.

    Episode 20: "The Ex-Files"
    Nick comes across his ex-wife (an attorney) and the villainous British immortal she's confronting. Despite the nice moments between Wolfe and wife, the overall episode is an average entry in this show.

    Episode 21: "War and Peace"
    Another contender for best episode. Father Liam has his own "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" story, revealing the priest's backstory and introducing a villain seeking revenge for his mother's death. The Scottish villain and his biker gang are only a part of the problem, though: there's also a reporter who witnessed Amanda's revival from death. Liam has a fascinating crisis of faith, and Amanda provokes a holy ground fight with him just to prove a point. It ends how FUOT should've ended.

    Episode 22: "Dead on Arrival"
    The title says it all...the last episode is arguably the worst. Rich cinematography cannot forgive a hokey plot about a villain (played by an actor who later became an evil Watcher in Endgame) who uses deadly magic tricks and implausible computer viruses to promote his wealth. He poisons Nick, and this leads to a painful ending that both undermines Wolfe's character and reworks the rules of "first death" immortality yet again. The only good thing to come out of this mess is Nick's final line--as suitable a conclusion to this series as any.
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    "Really? We are trapped in a room with a machine that can cut off my head. Now that's a longshot."
    --Connor MacLeod in Peter Bellwood's original Highlander II script

  • #2
    "War and Peace" is the true last worthwhile episode of Highlander - "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" was for the original show, and this is it for this single season, and how appropriate as it was just about to end. Its also, along with "The Unknown Soldier", one of two rare Raven episodes that stand with the best of both television iterations of Highlander (certainly the Series-verse). Its also kind of interesting that "Forgive Us Our Trespasses," "The Unknown Soldier" and "War and Peace" are all, largely, the same kind of tale, showing maybe a growing difficulty with coming up with moral stories in this universe. But I think it was interesting it how all those episodes said something different about the chief protagonists in them. Duncan, Amanda and Father Liam all virtually deal with the same issue in different ways, certainly coming towards it in a different manner, Duncan choosing to fight for it, thus giving it a sense of justice (though the guy was almost completely outclassed, and Duncan had to know this), Amanda is guilt-ridden in her surrender and Father Liam is a step beyond both of them, and acts out of faith rather than remorse (which kind of puts him ahead of Darius, quite honestly).

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    • #3
      Is Father Liam at Darius's church? And if so is it an immortals only church?
      JB

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