I agree that parts of this episode were not well thought out, but there were some bright spots.
The concept of an immortal spending 2,000 years inside a sarcophagus and surviving is very interesting. After all an immortal should be able to do that, right?
I've always loved Nia Peeples, and she was great as Nefertiri. It was too bad though that Nefertiri was unable to forget the distant past and realize that the war was over. It's too bad that she could not have lived longer. It would have been great to see her visiting with Methos at least once or twice.
I've always felt that Duncan was an immortal of superior compassion and understanding towards all people mortal or immortal, but here he does lose patience very easily with Nefertiri. In this episode it is immortal Marcus Constantine who shows the most wisdom and self control. He would have been the best teacher to help Nefertiri if she would have let him.
It was interesting that Marcus was a friend of Darius and I believe that Marcus could also have become a great new friend and mentor for Duncan.
Unfortunately the writers did not have anything like this in mind.
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90% of everything about Nefertiri was absurd. I actually thought she was treated unfairly by Duncan.
reb-warrior12 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Duncan finds a mummy, it turns out there's an immortal inside.
I have to say about 90% of everything about Nefertiri was absurd. A 2000-year-old woman wakes up in a mummy casket perfectly preserved, perfect make-up, all perky, all curvaceous, speaking perfect English. This was so stupid. I mean can overlook the language. Hollywood has English speaking characters through all their epic movies since the beginning when they really shouldn't be speaking English. But looking like that? Not hungry? Not starving? Make-up not worn-out? No mummification? Huh? Stupid.
There were some funny fish-out-of-water moments with her. I really liked Marcus. I wish he could have been back. Always enjoy Maurice. I wish he had more scenes with Nefertiri. I think that would have been funny.
Now here's a shocker. I think Nefertiri was mishandled from the beginning and treated unfairly later by Duncan. She killed Angela. It was wrong. But let's look closer at the Nefertiri character as absurd as she was. Here's a woman that wakes up 2000 years later. In her time, rules, morals, ethics were different. You could kill someone for betrayal. You could enact revenge. For Duncan and Marcus that time was 2000 years ago, for Nefertiri it was yesterday. I actually think she was having a breakdown being bombarded by all that changed in the world, facing Marcus who betrayed her, and still being in the mindset of 2000 years ago.
Duncan from the beginning should have taken her away somewhere to an isolated place where he could explain the world more thoroughly to her. Maybe get her to watch a lot of documentaries. Give her more time to adjust, rather than only a few days. So after Nefertiri killed Angela I felt his botched job of teaching her came full circle to 100%. Again she was wrong, but him throwing her out and being completely braindead about her culture shock, and acting holier-than-thou really enhanced his incompetence in this situation.
Some last thoughts: Again Duncan "feels" an immortal and has to stick himself in the situation when he followed the van. One could argue a lot of what happened is his fault for doing that in the first place. Who's bright idea was it to have dinner with Marcus and Angela? If it was Nefertiri's then Duncan should have quashed it. Another evil watcher, but yet again Duncan is still ok with watchers cause they record history. Rolling my eyes now. Drunk Maurice at the beginning is hilarious. Duncan sleeps with Nefertiri. Like I said before the guy can't go 5 minutes without a woman. Duncan kills Nefertiri, he could have just walked away. I gave the episode a 5/10
I have to say about 90% of everything about Nefertiri was absurd. A 2000-year-old woman wakes up in a mummy casket perfectly preserved, perfect make-up, all perky, all curvaceous, speaking perfect English. This was so stupid. I mean can overlook the language. Hollywood has English speaking characters through all their epic movies since the beginning when they really shouldn't be speaking English. But looking like that? Not hungry? Not starving? Make-up not worn-out? No mummification? Huh? Stupid.
There were some funny fish-out-of-water moments with her. I really liked Marcus. I wish he could have been back. Always enjoy Maurice. I wish he had more scenes with Nefertiri. I think that would have been funny.
Now here's a shocker. I think Nefertiri was mishandled from the beginning and treated unfairly later by Duncan. She killed Angela. It was wrong. But let's look closer at the Nefertiri character as absurd as she was. Here's a woman that wakes up 2000 years later. In her time, rules, morals, ethics were different. You could kill someone for betrayal. You could enact revenge. For Duncan and Marcus that time was 2000 years ago, for Nefertiri it was yesterday. I actually think she was having a breakdown being bombarded by all that changed in the world, facing Marcus who betrayed her, and still being in the mindset of 2000 years ago.
Duncan from the beginning should have taken her away somewhere to an isolated place where he could explain the world more thoroughly to her. Maybe get her to watch a lot of documentaries. Give her more time to adjust, rather than only a few days. So after Nefertiri killed Angela I felt his botched job of teaching her came full circle to 100%. Again she was wrong, but him throwing her out and being completely braindead about her culture shock, and acting holier-than-thou really enhanced his incompetence in this situation.
Some last thoughts: Again Duncan "feels" an immortal and has to stick himself in the situation when he followed the van. One could argue a lot of what happened is his fault for doing that in the first place. Who's bright idea was it to have dinner with Marcus and Angela? If it was Nefertiri's then Duncan should have quashed it. Another evil watcher, but yet again Duncan is still ok with watchers cause they record history. Rolling my eyes now. Drunk Maurice at the beginning is hilarious. Duncan sleeps with Nefertiri. Like I said before the guy can't go 5 minutes without a woman. Duncan kills Nefertiri, he could have just walked away. I gave the episode a 5/10
She speaks English.
Ar_Pharazon_the_golden20 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Com' on, people. She speaks English. What else is there to say?
But to say a few more things, the idea of an immortal buried for thousands of years is not bad. But just like Highlander III, there is surprisingly little attention given to the idea. I mean, in a later episode, I remember McLeod faces an immortal who holds a grudge against him after being abandoned in a deserted island for decades, driven mad by boredom and hunger. Yet here we have a woman who willingly got in a coffin for an indefinite eternity and comes out speaking English and adjusting to 2000 years in no time. Sure, I can ignore the intact make-up or that she was just wrapped in bandages and not mummified, but suspension of disbelief has limits. Rather than pondering how the hell she speaks English or the damage to her mind after milennia of being buried alive, the episode's focus is how she is still resentful of a roman guy because Rome went to war against Cleopatra.
Oh, and the evil watcher part, a theme already exhausted by this point (and fortunately abandoned by the next season), is quite redundant.
PS: Also, she is not the Pharao's daughter. She is Cleopatra's servant.
But to say a few more things, the idea of an immortal buried for thousands of years is not bad. But just like Highlander III, there is surprisingly little attention given to the idea. I mean, in a later episode, I remember McLeod faces an immortal who holds a grudge against him after being abandoned in a deserted island for decades, driven mad by boredom and hunger. Yet here we have a woman who willingly got in a coffin for an indefinite eternity and comes out speaking English and adjusting to 2000 years in no time. Sure, I can ignore the intact make-up or that she was just wrapped in bandages and not mummified, but suspension of disbelief has limits. Rather than pondering how the hell she speaks English or the damage to her mind after milennia of being buried alive, the episode's focus is how she is still resentful of a roman guy because Rome went to war against Cleopatra.
Oh, and the evil watcher part, a theme already exhausted by this point (and fortunately abandoned by the next season), is quite redundant.
PS: Also, she is not the Pharao's daughter. She is Cleopatra's servant.
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