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froodleOooh, Leoban the arms-dealing philosopher robot is in Highlander. And when he's not dying of radiation poisoning or having the shit kicked out of him by Starbuck, he's actually very attractive.
On a related note, I still think it was really shitty of Duncan to make Richie kill Mickey the Retard. Granted, in his position, I probably would have done the same, but it would be because I'm pragmatic, selfish and I get annoyed with people who take too much looking after, and I don't hold myself out as a bastion of righteousness the way Duncan does, so even if the end result was ultimately the same, the reasoning that brought us there would be entirely different. And anyway, since it was his decision, I don't see why Richie had to do it.
I bet he was afraid of the possibility of a Mong Quickening.
On a related note, I still think it was really shitty of Duncan to make Richie kill Mickey the Retard. Granted, in his position, I probably would have done the same, but it would be because I'm pragmatic, selfish and I get annoyed with people who take too much looking after, and I don't hold myself out as a bastion of righteousness the way Duncan does, so even if the end result was ultimately the same, the reasoning that brought us there would be entirely different. And anyway, since it was his decision, I don't see why Richie had to do it.
I bet he was afraid of the possibility of a Mong Quickening.
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Date: 2006-02-08 02:53 pm (UTC)also. Ha! mong quickenings are hysterical and so not something you could fight off, like a dark quickening. cause the dark thing just makes you Want to be bad while the mong thing takes away the reasoning stuffs.
... i'd hate that. couldn't they have had him run over by the train or something. just for irony.
also. how the hell did he justify it? that he couldn't give away their secret existence?
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Date: 2006-02-08 07:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think a Mong Quickening would pretty much spell the end of the show. Adrian Paul is pretty, but his acting is fairly sub-par as it is and I really don't think I could tolerate a show with a SPED as the main character.
In the end, Mickey lets himself get run over by a train, but for some reason Richie still gets the Quickening. And basically Duncan's justification is that there is no way for Mickey to have a decent life, since they can't protect him 24/7 and although a regular mong could go into a home or something, eventually someone would notice Mickey wasn't aging and after that? Science project. So it's not that I don't get it, I just don't like his morally superiour attitude. Especially since there's this little kid Immortal running around, who genuinely is dangerous and psychotic, and can never lead anything approaching a normal life, but Duncan doesn't seem willing to make the same decision about him - although he is quite happy to make it for both mongs and evil people.