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The Samurai

He's just full of fun facts to know and share (and no, it's not Robert Patrick, although they do look very similar at a glance)
Of all the things he was expecting, he wasn't expecting that
Again, for MacLeod, the solution is brandy
Love Mac's martial arts mime
Mac gets a very satisfying 'whumph' noise from the sword
She didn't just try, she did actually kill him
Mac catches the quickening between his hands
Immortals just live for those smug little moments, "maybe there is"

Line Of Fire

The short and the small I agree with, but ugly?
Richie can't have a son, but Mac gives him an apple to compensate
They use a different clip here than they do in 'Family Tree'
Joe's bar is absolutely gorgeous, it's at its best in 'They Also Serve' and 'Shadows', especially with the light and the fans, but it looks wonderful however you see it
Mac leaves a threatening feather
Richie has actually been liquidised and then poured into those black jeans. Where the hell has he put his sword? There's barely room for Richie in there, let alone any kind of edged weapon

The Revolutionary

How come Lisa Howard gets a special appearance credit?
Father Stefan is a bit of a sweetheart
Please, please everyone, when you're getting off your horses, please make sure you've got both feet out of your stirrups before you hit the ground, otherwise, you will hit the ground, probably on your backside and there will be a lovely loud crack as your ankle bone snaps
But they still died
Frankly you should be careful if you're hearing voices from any time period
Comedy pathologist
The amount and variety of alcohol consumed in this episode is pretty impressive. Karros knocks back the brandies, Charlie and Mara split a celebratory bottle of wine and now Mac and Charlie are working through the beers. Not a lot for actual people, but fairly impressive for a TV show

The Cross Of St. Antoine

Rite Of Passage

She had very good taste at eleven
Someone will probably lose their job over that body going missing
That is such a tasteless coffin
Top edit
She however is quite clearly miming, or has been dubbed over, cause her lips don't match the music
Axel should have stayed under
MacLeod's smug look at the end might not be such a good idea, not until he knows what exactly they're saying about him

Courage

Oh this is so bad, John Pyper Ferguson is actually gorgeous, and he's all covered up with disgusting facial hair. It shouldn't be allowed. Although I do approve of the sleeveless shirt
Cheap collision effect
"Some lunatic", that lunatic in fact
Mac is also slightly offended at the insult to Richie's competence
Mac probably has more chance of taking him when he's on the drugs
Every girl should get to dance with Adrian at least once

The Lamb

Why does Mac assume that everyone's scared of him?
And why do they always assume the immortal's a he?
"Every day you fish" no, it just seems like a year. Am I misquoting Shaw there "you don't live longer, it just feels longer"?
MacLeod climbs all the way onto his moral high horse, then Joe gives him a shove and he falls off the other side
He should've dropped something heavier
But the police are really crap at the Rambo stuff
MacLeod is now going for the meaningful sex

Obsession

Big yay for Cameron Bancroft's second appearance (he fell over a balcony in 'The Watchers')
Anne takes the time to casually feel Duncan up as he wanders half naked out of the shower
Getting a key to the guys apartment is one thing, getting the key to his elevator implies a whole different level of commitment
That must have hurt, Dave hits the ground like a stone. It's one fine move as well. Go Richie
Stolen flashback from 'Line Of Fire'
Stolen martial arts sequence from 'Turnabout'
See, Cameron doesn't feel the need to actually die to prove his immortality (yeah, and look how well that turned out, but you get my point)
That was can't as in morally can't, not can't as in not possible

Shadows

I am reliably informed that the gargoyles have been swiped from (or possibly swiped by) the eponymous 'X-Files' episode
Garwin Sandford usually spends his cult TV time holding a cat and walking through walls
Yep, okay, that's witchcraft
Garrick is probably not helping his case here
"Keeps me sane" well, it's not doing a very good job
Mac is very dismissive of the gargoyles, I think they're cool. Again Highlander subscribes to the theory that good art has to be pretty
The mystery figure is getting the bottom of it's robe all wet
Joe is not helping
Again, not Death, Death's much prettier than that
First in a tragic set of three, Mac trying to chop Richie's head off
Richie is understandably pissed
The jerks were probably giving him some good advice there
I can't believe Richie actually uses the word "flick"
For possibly the only time in history, exploding lentils used for photographic effect
Mac horribly misquotes Hamlet "there are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

Blackmail/Swords, Lies And Videotape

I have title follies on this one, the Watchers Guide has it down as 'Blackmail', but on Sky and in all the listings, it was always down as 'Swords, Lies and Videotape', which is a much cooler title, so that's the one I tend to stick with
"One of your guys just came at me with a video camera." Yes, but was he shooting?
MacLeod is singing. Dear God help us all
What exactly are MacLeod's obvious talents (I can think of one or two...)?
You can't sort of kill somebody
"Your sense of honour gets in the way of your own best interests" Never...
Big cheer for Anthony De Longis, with the fetching white streak in his hair, and a passable Irish accent
Why on earth would he want to sue his ass? Well that's the bit that's making all the money...
Of course Joe would be kinda screwed if Mac has to have a new identity. He'd have to sell the bar and everything and move after him
Wonderful, wonderful fight between Adrian and Anthony De Longis
What on earth does she tell the people who come to clean the pool? I have a sneaking suspicion that this is how Methos gets all his money. He runs a 24 hour replacement glaziers and pool cleaning service, bodies removed, no questions asked

Vendetta

There's a movie where Gable dies? I didn't think that was allowed (pointless historical fact, Dillinger was actually shot watching 'Manhattan Melodrama')
Taking the cuffs off is a bad, bad idea
"Next to nil" I think this is a contender for a Hollywood Cliche
Up until about six months ago I didn't have any scars either, so it's not that strange
I don't care about not pushing, if someone was shooting at my boyfriend, and by association me, I would insist on knowing why

They Also Serve

Could she not have ducked? Or at least just pushed off from the side
Is Glenmorangie the only scotch you can get in America? It's the only one that ever gets ordered in Highlander, and it's the one Giles has on his worktop
Trent sounds like a very sensible guy
Aren't Watchers meant to stick around to see it happen? Isn't that their job?
"Always this observant?" mostly yes
Joe does his best to look innocent
There are some really superb cuts as they go down in the lift, droping the cuts in when the horizontal bars cover the camera. It's like 'Rope' only classier, because the black sections are naturally there, they don't have to pan into a cupboard for no reason
This is the best that Joe's bar has ever looked, with the light coming through those fans and getting broken up on all the pipework. Very classy set of fades too

Blind Faith

Mac brings out his best smug superior look
Cage has a very neat little curvy Romanesque sword
If Mac whacks him, then Cage will never get to clear his tab
I just wish this episode was better than it is, cause it's a really good premise. And I love that the guy really has reformed and that Mac just can't deal with that at all

Song Of The Executioner

Is that "lost" as in dead, or lost as in Stargate lost?
I can't work out if they use the same piece of music constantly to keep a sense of continuity in the episode or because they were too cheap to pay royalties for two different tracks
This is MacLeod lying through his teeth
Skilled copyist, not skilled forger. A skilled forger of signatures copies the way a person signs their name, not the signature itself, so the signature is never the same twice. That also means that you can write words that you've never seen in their handwriting, which a copyist would probably have trouble with (I had a thriving fake PE note business in secondary school)
I'm interested in Richie's win
Mac nearly knocks the phone off the wall
Anne impressively distracts Duncan at just the wrong moment
And suddenly Kalas bursts into mime

Star-Crossed

Finally someone on this show with a decent taste in cars. Hooray for Fitzcairn's Alfa Romeo. Which they then promptly trash. Why couldn't they have trashed Mac's revolting Citroen?
As MacLeod fails to find words for Maurice
Mac isn't really the kind of person I would trust with a young girl's virtue, especially that young girl
Fop? From someone in that hat?
I'm very impressed that he actually had a round in the chamber, something that most people in TV land completely fail to do
If reading means so much to Mac how come it takes him another thirty years to actually get round to learning?
But Fitz didn't erase anything? If anything, he added stuff
MacLeod's 'parading' mime
I was expecting them to cut to MacLeod then, instead I got a lovely Richie close-up and nearly fell off the bed
It's a huge barge
I know Mac has to have his big climactic fight and all, but it would be nice if Fitz or Richie or someone actually got to whack the bad guy for a change.
I would so have taken Kalas' head whilst he was helpless
How did he know that that was a steam line?

Methos

Roger cracks like an egg
There's a story to the Picasso meeting isn't there
Tobin is right, to be evil you have to have a side parting, Kalas does
First time anyone has ever come to a party with Mac and left with another guy
Is Carlsberg more effective as a torture aid than say Grolsch or Stella?
No! Not the books!
The large blow to the head is actually more likely to cause him to forget
Just such a handy piece of paper and large puddle of blood
The main problem with this episode, despite it being called 'Methos' is the amount of time it takes to actually get to the Methos part, although I'm not complaining about the presence of Richie in the bike leathers
Kalas is just so much more graceful going over the balustrade
Wheee!! Mac and Kalas play with hardwood floors
I would of course take Methos under any circumstances, but I do hope he comes with the apartment
MacLeod makes his one intuitive leap
I forget quite how gorgeous Peter is. God I had such good taste when I was eleven and he was running around in Sega adverts in a black catsuit.
That's ambitious of MacLeod, trying to walk and read at the same time, although he does have to stop when he finds a difficult bit and has to think as well
I think he probably is serious about letting Mac take his head, although subconsciously he knows he never will, simply because Kalas has him panicked for the first time in 200 years
Why doesn't Kalas run from the police?

Take Back The Night

Paris or Madrid? Gee, tough call...
Yes he probably would be pushing that hard, all the other riders are
It just means he's going to nick some other poor sap's wallet to get his bus fare
"Sick sister" you've got to give Paolo points for trying
Slight wince at his pronunciation of Ceirdwyn
Ben Pullen who plays Bonnie Prince Charlie is Ivanhoe in 'Dark Knight'
Mac looks very comforting and cuddly in that white jumper
That's a nice jacket, you don't want to go leaving that there
Do the Saracen lot not have team orders in this situation, precisely to avoid both of their own riders taking each other off?
"Lose one so young" this is definitely Stargate lost
"Getting across town without any clothes" frankly this could be an episode in itself. Forty five minutes of Richie trying to cross Paris in a sheet
"You ever screw up like this?" Constantly
"Put some clothes on" does he have to?
"Depends on what?" On how freaked you are in the next ten minutes
How did they manage to time that?
You might have wanted to give her a chair rather than a stool there Joe

Testimony

Beautiful, beautiful claymore
That's very posh for a storage warehouse. Lots of windows for a storage warehouse too
Why the hell can't a doctor wear snakeskin cowboy boots?
Where do the bullets go when Mac gets shot. I think they just kinda stay inside. I'd love to pass him through a metal detector at some point. It also means that during a fight you could completely incapacitate him with a big magnet
Either he's dead or he's a really substantial ghost
"How many guys can say that" not many, mostly on account of them being dead
No, you didn't beat him dear, your stunt double did, you're still having trouble getting the trot right
MacLeod is too drunk to stand, let alone remain upright whilst attempting to do a Cossack dance

Mortal Sins

That's good hair for him. He always did have good hair in the forties
"Soon" which is neither a time, nor a plaice, or a place even (although it wasn't a fish either)
It's a barn of God in fact
No, it has to be Bernard if you think about it
He makes it his job
If he's so interested in the superior race, what the hell is he doing hanging around with the French? We'll get hate mail from the French for that I'll just send letters back with the final score in the Heineken Cup final
What the hell is he doing with that pitchfork? He obviously doesn't have a clue so why should we know?
Normal lives are severely over-rated
Natural coloured flashback from 'Bless The Child' and 'The Sea Witch', oh and Georges was also in 'For Tomorrow We Die'
The Holy Ground thing doesn't count for mortals. In either direction
Yes, kill him, it'll slow him down at least

Reasonable Doubt

At this juncture I wouldn't be calling her a lady
The blondish guy in the van looks like Mika Hakkinen
Robert Cavanah looking very dashing in tweed and that beard
That's a dodgy suit Mac's wearing
The joys of compound interest
Nice Porsche
That guy has great hair. And the rest of him is not unpleasant
Now he's earned it
How come people like that always manage to find an attractively draped position to die in?

Finale pt1

This was the first bit of Highlander I ever saw, just the first five minutes where the person who taped Voyager for me had left the video running. I saw as far as 'guest starring Peter Wingfield' and got interested, found season one on terrestrial and begged a friend into taping season five off Sky for me. It was a good two years later at a convention before I actually saw the rest of the episode
Kalas has a damn good golf swing at least. Was it a good swing or did he slice? Possibly the world's only golf/Highlander pun
The rest of the Algiers story is in 'Scimitar' by Ashley McConnell
I've missed Xavier, I forget just how cool he is
"I will stay" and die, like an idiot
Methos has a good poke through Mac's things
Good men have enemies, bad guys just have accomplices
If he was Buddha he'd be wearing a loincloth
There should have been an almighty great crack there when that guys neck broke

Finale pt2

The last time I saw the Eiffel Tower it was surrounded, and mostly covered, with about 10,000 Leicester Tigers fans in this huge sea of red, green and white. Very, very cool
Methos is clutching at straws
Mac is such a smug *******
"Why not? Got no hands" Sorry, random Due South quote
Serious plot bunny, Methos and Amanda obviously know each other, how? It is never explained how they first met
I don't care how sharp Kalas' sword is, that's one low quality axe handle
Oh he would so do this
You can say whatever you like in front of the dead, they don't know
It's stuff like this that makes me love Highlander, that they would remember a detail like Amanda's crystal from a year and a half ago and actually use it
Ain't nobody here but us chickens...
Listen carefully when Mac beheads Kalas, first you hear his body hit the ground, then you hear his head hit the ground and bounce a couple of times
Joe and Methos looking for trouble, God I dread to think...