Last time: the pseudo-martyrdom (and painful repeated head-butting) of Connor MacLeod.
Back in the ’80s, Connor lopes down the street as dawn puts an end to what I think we can all agree was a long damn day for him. He’s going home at last.
And like every other supernatural humanoid in fiction, he is clearly enormously wealthy: we see him descend an elegant staircase on his way to a sitting room that is basically a treasure vault filled with antiques (to the mere mortals in the story)/relics of past stages of his existence (to those of us in the knowing audience).
It’s at this point that I usually start complaining about the rich-immortal phenomenon in general, so I’ll say it here too: won’t somebody, sometime, write a story about a vampire who’s just really bad at investments?
Connor sits down, stares off into the distance, and summons another 16th-century flashback, in which he’s a mere blacksmith with a pretty wife named Heather…and an enormous tower to live in. Setting aside that sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar, how did a smith and a…farmer?…manage that? Is Heather the last bit of some sort of Tess of the D’Urbervilles fallen-family situation? Are they squatters?
Whatever they are, they’ve just finished a spot of al-fresco sex when a horse leaps over them. You know what that means.
Next time: I actually haven’t the foggiest.
Next time on TCBOM!: Anybody heard of this Connery guy?
Bonus goofery: Rewatching for TCBOM! (I try not to watch the whole movie every week, but I like seeing swords clash as much as the next person, and indeed a little more so—occasionally it gets away from me) has meant that I sometimes have Highlander playing while I also have headphones on. This has led to some interesting action/music combinations over time, so much so that I regret I have the mashup-making skills of a dead worm. Instead, we’ll make do with music videos.
- Coolest: Kurgan’s entry into present day + “Stand For the Fire Demon” by Roky Erickson (honorable mention: “Bungle In The Jungle” by Jethro Tull).
- Most disturbing: Kurgan and Ramirez duel + otherwise excellent jazz song “Set In Motion” by Steven Emerson, which is both completely out of place and just thematic enough about winning at life to be completely unnerving.
- Most surprisingly on, er, point: Connor and Fasil duel + “In For The Kill” by La Roux.
