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Prophecy

Surely the police would still be suspicious. Why would he use his partner's gun and throw away his own? The Sig would have Roland's fingerprints all over it too
When did wolves become extinct in Britain?
Does she actually shapeshift or is the wolf a familiar, or just an illusion?
That pond must be freezing
Is that attractive, off-the-shoulder number entirely historically accurate?
How did he know the wolf was "evil" and not just a wolf?
My, she's shrill
He doesn't have enough wax in his ears already?
Nice to see a woman who takes what she wants

The End Of Innocence

I know Amanda mentioned it a while back, but Richie really has been working out
You really think a twenty something guy like Richie is going to solve his problems by going to holy ground and meditating rather than going out to a bar to get pissed and pick fights?
Very poor Samson joke
Nice to see someone thoroughly enjoying his immortality and not just getting depressed and mopey about it
Graham Ashe was the name of the guy who wrote the big 'Mythology Of The British Isles' that became my dissertation Bible
There was no need to speed up that fight
Delilah neatly avoids the double negative trap twice
Ow, ow, ow, ow ,ow, Jesus ow!
If Richie had just flicked up then, he could have taken Mac
Chevron seven guy!
You mean he's got to be re-tattooed over the place where they burnt the other one off? I'll say it again, ow!

Manhunt

For one awful moment I thought he was going to land on the Lamborghini
That's an extremely posh suit on Mac
In that outfit, I'm not surprised she gets groped
Still love that hat
Deeply fond of the serial killer guy's accent. Seriously, what is it with me and the attractive power of poorly faked Southern accents?
He's got a beautiful relaxed seat on that little bay horse
And he's got his feet on your desk
"Go on forever" "Unless they're stopped" Mac's lightning mental powers at work there. Although, you can't fault his logic
Shooting the boy really wasn't called for
He's telling him what he shouldn't have done, which is an entirely different thing
So Carl's idea of hiding out from the police involves walking down the middle of the road in a jacket with his name on the back?
It's a bit of both
I wonder who's stadium that really is?

Glory Days

I'm not going to ask why Joe was in a waterfront lap-dancing bar in the first place...
She could have finished her drink
Again, neither am I. When the least worrying explanation is that he's remaking 'Mannequin', I just don't need to know
"Just like you weren't pulling the trigger when it didn't" there's got to be some kind of double negative working there
I like the idea of Mac's noble katana being referred to as a "friggin toad stabber"
You'd be surprised how much you can learn from Errol Flynn
There really are a lot of seriously questionable props in this episode
Because the whiskey's really going to improve his beer-tap mending skills
Hey! I like The Monkees! That was the first album I ever owned
Ooh, somebody got some last night
No Joe, a specially rigged detonating frog. What do you think he used?
I hope he doesn't have dandruff, you don't need that in the font
That's a pretty major ad campaign. Those billboards can't have been cheap
He could volunteer to stand in the window, that'd raise his chances
I rarely like brooches, but that's lovely
I'm a bit confused, I always thought I had about ten minutes missing from this episode and I can't for the life of me tell where
Very solid-sounding head!
How long can you go in a loft?

Dramatic License/Blade Of The MacLeods

Wow! Wow what? You really are on a millionth time copy aren't you?
It's Mr Beechams again
Love that with chair. Who do you think you are, Donald O'Connor? Or Tarzan? Or a strange and unnatural mix of the two?
"Then suddenly..." a pink mist! Hathor, breathing out of nowhere
Both feet out please!
There's a woman enjoying herself
Yes but at this point he'd say he was a radish
So all over the world that's Europe then
He really shouldn't wear his sweater like that, he looks like a prat
Let's take a vote, is he your sexual fantasy? Well, not the only one...
"Into the mist" only because he got lost
Spot of really good sex...
30 bucks for a taxi? It's twelve and she's keeping the change
One piece of classical music I'm never, never going to be able to listen to again
He's like the MGM lion. Rraaargh!
Honey, if they could have got Mel Gibson...
Horrible dress. The shop assistant is lying. Job like that, it's your job to lie, "No it doesn't make you look like a marquee"
Rule number one, never assume that they're thinking
If he's upset about the one dress, think what he'll say when he sees the bill for both of them
"Dissect what we are" that's never going to work out well...
Every man I know would have thrown me in the lake when he did that

Money No Object

Was he going so fast he couldn't stop properly the first time?
Not entirely sure why the beret
That's right, you blow his cover. First anyway
Dear god not again! They get both of them in it twice? I had enough bloody trauma in 'The Fighter' trying to deal with Krycek and Maybourne in 'Highlander', let alone having to deal with it (twice) and Tom McBeath's accent at the same time!
More to the point, what do other immortals usually want with Amanda?
"Still jealous" or he will be after they get in the hot tub...
You know you're in trouble when you meet a sword-wielding cow
Giving it away..? You're right about not doing this after midnight, like gremlins
Yet another line everyone should get to say once "You'll never take me alive coppers!" (although not too loud, in case they take your word for it) like "Full power to the death ray!" and "Deploy the Russell Bucket!" and "It's a killer snot monster from outer space!"
Bonnie and Clyde bounce back. Boing!
How long is this musical bit?
The greatest Rio Bravo of our time "I'm not!" "Why not?"
"Taking notes" and stealing his oranges
"Don't rob the Federal Reserve?" Yes!
Where the hell are her propellers?
"I've set that Saab to blow!" this time it's personal
I've never been able to look at a marching band the same since. Nearly killed me in 'The Full Monty'
Oh god, it's that accent again...
Yes we can, but he can't
Oh, that's gotta hurt

Haunted

Doesn't she just scream horror movie victim?
God I wish I had a better copy of this... You know when Amanda said he'd been working out? Well, she was right
"Looking for Duncan MacLeod" aren't they all?
He really should check that it's Richie in that lift
I think there should have been an edit through that mirror. Did they decide not to do it, or did Sky obscure it with the ad break?
God she's fussy
That's one impressive bustle
Familiar cliff shot there
He had nice taste in furniture for a depressive drunk
Being written in Aramaic doesn't guarantee that it's true
Odd little blade-like sound effect with Mac's hand gesture
That definitely qualifies as an oops
I like the way immortals get identified by their swords, like people being identified by their ponies
Mac needs to hang on to that rental car, it's kind of nice
Nice to see Richie's iron self-control holding out again
Subtle climax substitution
No, you can't fix it. There's no way she's going to take that well however you tell her
He thinks she's crazy
It's not a white lie, technically it's a white non-disclosure of information
I never saw Richie as having houseplants
Unfortunately in Richie's case, they don't stay with him for long

Little Tin God

I know Derek's a little naive, but as (Jesuses..? Jesii..?) sons of God go, Larca's pretty convincing. He's giving Willem Dafoe a run for his money
That's real cool, I wonder if Angel's Plymouth does that
They honestly think the devil's going to show up wearing a vest?
Well, if God said it...
Vancouver doubling for Peru, well there's rain and there's forest, what more could you want?
Sudden vision of MacLeod with a blue duffel coat and little yellow wellingtons. "Please look after this immortal"
'A Brief History Of Central America' by Gabriel Larca
'Stargate' quality silly hat
Ah free thought, the enemy of organised religion
As pensions of that time go, I would have thought five acres was pretty good. The cattle were just a bonus
Without those immortals, my Latin lessons would have had a whole different aspect to them (and Cerberus the dog wouldn't have nearly made me cry)
"God is not fear" even Reverend Bill stutters over that one
Do they never wonder why God's living in a shabby old barn and getting other people to do his dirty work?
"You should see me add short columns of small numbers"
Is this pre 'Pulp Fiction'?
Why doesn't Bill shoot Derek? It's not like he isn't going to get up again
Oh that's wonderful, "step away from the preacher..." it sounds like he's going to explode!
The Watcher's "shoot 'em or recruit 'em" policy

The Messenger

I love Richie's, "buddy, totally"
Nah, he's just hiding it well
No you're not!
Kind of a life statement for Richie "Richie gets here when he gets here"
Robert Wisden needs a show of his very own, because he's done some truly superb work in just about everybody else's
And they all went into the ark, for to get out of the rain... I'm guessing that has different words in America
I'm fond of the sensible qualifier, "if it's a boy"
Top effect with the 'Exit' sign
Richie totally misreading Mac's stunned tone there
This is one of the most beautifully staged, and played scenes I've ever scene. Everything for the boots to Methos sneaking away from Duncan round the chair so he can sit back down again
How do we know he is the real Methos?
Please tell me the other Methos has something on under that coat, otherwise I don't even want to think what his reason for finding Culbraith is
How many times is that for this flashback?
Really not Peter's best angle, the back-lighting on his ears is especially unfortunate
Thorough grasp of Egyptian history from the other Methos, "She was a woman"
"Made me think" yeah, we're all shocked too
Fighting unarmed against a guy is with a sword is not actually as hard as it look
It was the smug little "I don't believe I was wrong" that pushed Culbraith over the edge there
Why does he put his coat on to go to the bathroom?
The inquisition had drills? If they had a usual drill, did that mean they had a special drill for the really hard cases?
Life statement for Methos, "You are one calculating son of a bitch"
If that was me, I would have said "yes", and then left

The Valkyrie

You'd have thought he'd be jumping at the chance to search her
I absolutely adore Methos' little stand against boxing, "because out on the streets you could get hurt"
Mac, in the long run, this is not going to help
I'd say you've already done it Ingrid
He's got pretty good projection even without the mic
Finally the guard notices something suspicious
That was a nice piece of work from Ingrid
I'm getting a dreadful urge to tip Mac backwards off that chair, they're not designed to be sat on like that
The hall committee must have some really good facilities if they can stage a boxing match and a rally on consecutive days
Is really is funny
Not the least convincing Hitler I've ever seen
See, this is what happens when you don't put your bags neatly under the table
Of course he's buying into that tawdry, guilt-induced little melodrama, he's MacLeod for god's sake
There's some really cracking sound-editing at the end of this bar scene
What kind of paperwork does an Indian Chief need?
"I would have made the same choice." Is that supposed to be comforting?
Knowing my luck, if I'd done this her quickening would have set the bloody bomb off anyway
Did he just leave her head in the alley? Or is it propped precariously on her chest?
Where did he carry the body to anyway?

Comes A Horseman

Mac thinks he has a nice smile?
He was on stage with the Rolling Stones. How can he be weak on pop culture?
Hey! No jokes about the fan club!
My little paranoid Methos detector going over time here, he went on telly deliberately to draw Kronos out didn't he?
That's very verdant for Texas
Well done to the palomino determinedly trying to buck Mac off
And I though Bert was bad. What kind of lunatic chooses to be called Melvin?
"Even lynched" hey, Clint Eastwood survived it
Nice little 'T2' move with the shotgun
One of the bad guys is called Chihuaha? What kind of macho outlaw name is that?
That beard's a hanging offence by itself
There's another big bad with a parasol. I'm really starting to worry about this gang
That was a narrow coffin
Love the epitaph
I'm also very fond of the single unconcerned camel in the middle of the camp
Ah, people doing obscure things to pelts, the true sign of a barbarian society
He's doing well to neither impale or trample the camera there
Still the unconcerned camel sitting calmly on the skyline
The word she's looking for there is millennia, not "more centuries"
War, Famine, Conquest and Death
He doesn't know Chubby Checker but he knows Tony Bennett?
Methos doesn't get sloppy. This has to be a set-up
That was a very floppy carpet
Is there a Cleopatra joke in here?
They've got some bloody efficient ravens in that desert
This is the whole point of the episode, this is our Methos they're talking about
"All you have to go with is your gut," whereas us poor souls just have to rely on our brain
"Don't fight it, feel it" Do what you will... Random frightening 'The Almighty' moment there
"And I was good at it" after 10,000 tries you'd hope so. It's better than killing 10,000 people badly, or with a certain lack of style
If you ever get the chance (they do the convention rounds) don't miss seeing the rushes of this scene. There are some truly super moments with PW and AP slamming each other up against the car, and another excellent one when PW shuts the car door so hard the window glass falls out
Why is it always innocent women and children, what about all the poor innocent men? Nobody seems to give a damn about them
He's been waiting to dump her over the side in years
That's a very graceful toss of a petrol bomb
"Afraid of me losing, or him." Either. Both

Revelations 6:8

I really like the big Haflinger type that Methos is riding
Good shot, that's not really a throwing kind of axe
That's an incredibly fast search facility on their database
It's always, always the third picture that's the one they're looking for
Silas playing the descant recorder in the background, not the most threatening instrument in the world
That poor nutter will never know how right he is
The most evil men in the world and they don't know how to steal electric?
White, rodent's a white meat
Methos has the right idea, giving up world domination for a nice sit down with a good book
It must have taken them ages to figure out how their hands had to go
Notice how they've had to stagger the actors as they walk down that corridor, so they all appear to be about the same height
Oh yeah, I can just see Kronos and his little monkey army, with the uniforms and everything
'Plan?' thinks Methos, 'I was expected to have a plan?'
How can he have not seen 'Casablanca'?
MacLeod in a truly gorgeous jumper there
Ah, so that's what this is about!
Finally nailed that turning-head edit
They're doing well to keep horses alive in that kind of scrubby desert environment
Impressive aim from Cassandra
"White, then black, then red" shouldn't Mac be writing that down?
Cassandra should learn to carry a gun, and to keep the chain on the door
Is Kronos eating Caspian's rat or did they send out for chicken?
I like the way Methos and Kronos cheerily double-cross each other with no loss of trust whatsoever on either side
He'd be better off calling the University, not asking some guy with kittens in his window
Cassandra sensibly crawling back into the cage
"You're Home Economics!"
This double quickening gets more bizarre every time I see it. What the hell is meant to be going on here?
I wonder what they do with all the monkeys? For that matter, who goes and fishes the vial out of the water supply, or is it still there just waiting for some passing frog to smash the glass and poison half of Bordeaux?
He's been planning for much longer than that
That landscape reminds me of home

The Ransom Of Richard Redstone

Finally, someone's towing that Citroen
I love the not-close-enough-to-Bond-that-they-can-sue-us music
"Good news Stan, we're going to let you drive around in a Ferrari this episode, the bad news..." You're going to have to look a total twat while doing it?
"What more could a guy ask for?" Non-chafe hand restraints?
You'd have thought he'd do the disguise before he arrived
Uugh. I warned you there were going to be ruffles
What other colour Ferrari is there?
One man and his post...
"Next thing you know, out like a light" men, honestly...
You've got to give Richie points for effort really
"Mine" says MacLeod, not bitter at all...
Room service rarely wears a balaclava
Yes, but she doesn't have the money damn it
He's a particularly unconvincing corpse
See, not only does Mac save your house, he also does interior redesign as well, and there's nothing impressive about knocking down a wall with a lump hammer, my Mum did that when she was seven months pregnant

Duende

Even if I loved the guy and wanted to marry him, if he just announced it without asking me first, I'd be explaining to him in great detail exactly where he could shove his proposal
Hah! I understood that! The result of a long and productive evening in a restaurant with Bitca learning how to insult people in Spanish
I can't figure out why this episode is so good. It's just a totally generic 'Highlander' episode, but right from the beginning it feels special. Also Gilles Arnaud is on top form in this one, as are Adrian and Stan. Anthony de Longis is truly excellent too
I feel so sorry for Theresa's friend, she's completely a third wheel here. There's nothing worse than watching a couple go through that icky romantic stage
"Clumsy, not stupid" well, his memory's obviously a little shaky
I thought Richie meant something stronger for Anna, not for himself
Note about Spanish Duelling Circles, don't draw them in chalk on the landing of your University housing. The porters think you're worshipping the devil and give you strange looks
Okay, SO not speeded up
And also a big circle
Who's back garden are they in here?
Would you trust that face?
King of low budget TV. Need to kill someone? Why bother with effects, insurance, makeup and stunt-people when you can get the second cameraman and a tea-boy to roll half a pound of apples down some steps. Dramatically effective and all for the cost of a Cox's Orange Pippin
Evil drives a black BMW
He doesn't strike me as the kind of man to wear a wedding ring
There are some wonderful outtakes of this, two highly talented men, trying to fight on a circle covered in water, fencing and aquaplaning at the same time, and occasionally vanishing out of shot to land on their arse
Anthony de Longis doing the Ginger Rodgers thing, the same as Adrian, only backwards in high heels
Cows, they farmed cows. And sheep
There's an episode of 'Sharpe' where the fight ends like this, 'Sharpe's Sword' I think.

The Stone Of Scone

Love the comedy flashback titles, "somewhere else in the bowels of the abbey"
Very worried by the alarmingly high golf content in this show
The cow's horns are wonky
How good she is is not really an issue
There's someone who got to stand off-screen and lob golf balls at Adrian
That's the Methuselah stone!
I don't know "what the dickens" it is but damn it looks like good stuff
How much of the Pathe stuff is genuine news footage? (Actually, I saw a documentary about this on Breakfast News, and all the shots that don't have Amanda in are genuine)
"After the whisky boat crashed into the island, no tern was left unstoned"
Mac's got his collar pulled up so you can't see where he's tucked in his ponytail

Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Keane really thought he'd made a pick-up that good that quickly?
Handful of clips from 'Through A Glass Darkly' and 'Take Back the Night'
"Everyone's dead now, the people he killed, the people you killed..." and that's the kind of intellect that helps you live for a thousand years
Yippee!! Naked Methos! I think I'm wearing this bit of the tape out
Why has Methos quit the Watchers now, as opposed to after 'One Minute To Midnight'?
"But he'll die Methos." "Yes but then we get our own show..."
The defining MacLeod quote, "you are such a pain in the arse"
"Temporarily insane?" Actually, yes
Jesus Methos and Amanda are really pulling all the stops out on this one
I love this apartment too, in fact I think it's even nicer than the last one
I really think that for dramatic impetus, Keane should have won that fight

The Modern Prometheus

Marcus Testory's band playing
Deeply in love with Jonathan Firth, especially with that hair, and the leather trousers
The Greek mythology reference really lost on Jerry there, much to Byron's obvious disappointment
Again the expensive stunt team are replaced by a bottle of whiskey and a stick
Left-handed so they can drive home the Hendrix comparison
Ooh, "effrontery," big word
Love the way he goes "yah!" and the horse carries on trotting just as calmly as it was doing before
Vaguely Macbeth-y misquote
That's it, you drag your wife into debauchery and drug use
I wonder who the big robed figure is. Not who it's meant to be, but who had to get dressed up in the silly costume
Methos looking slightly freaked at Byron's sudden switch of attention
I love Byron's little almond rant
Please tell me there's an innocent explanation for that goat
I really hoped they found a clear, dry night to film next to the lightning conductor
Jameson's, nice choice
Methos doesn't agree with Mac, he just knows he's never going to win the damn argument
I feel the headscarf was a mistake

Archangel

Nobody's all worried by the vivid red fog? Paris pollution must be worse than I thought
He's come back from the dead before, Mac's got a right to be suspicious
Eeewww
They're very impractical shoes for a pathologist
Neeaahh! Kronos behind that bookcase, makes me jump every single time
Trust me, by ancient standards the Zoroastrians weren't that strange
Nice dying 'uggh' from the sceptical cameraman
Ooh, no wonder he's had to take his hair down
That kind if stuff must be a pain in the arse to film. The actors all have to sit there and look pensive whilst someone counts off the seconds for the voice over
Lunatic cave-dwelling Scotsman, I haven't seen one of them in a while
The spooky red fog's not that scary. It's hard to worry about a demon who could be defeated with an ExpelAir
Or a decent extinguisher
"Every thousand years" that's a bit of an exaggeration, he could have heard it once before at the most
Methos seems very cut up about Alison
Mac doesn't seem at all surprised to find a woman he's only met once laid out on his bed in lingerie. Are we meant to assume this has happened before?
Not the vase!
Richie's got a solid point there, "You're walking"
Joe and Methos attempt an intervention
The world's pretty much always been like that
Chantilly racetrack in fact, which means Richie sprinted after that cab for nearly 15 miles. And he isn't even out of breath
I hate it when people don't put the handset back
Someone's had a good party down there
No!!! Although on my part not entirely unexpected since, when I asked the friend who was taping thee if anything happened this week, the answer was, "Not a lot. Oh yeah, Richie died." Whereupon I tried to turn round a little too fast, fell over my own feet and crashed headlong into the queue of slightly stunned first years on the other side of the corridor