# Guilty pleasure: I love the old Highlander TV series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777 "2008-12-26T21:13:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/1 "2008-12-26T21:13:56Z")
I haven’t seen this shit in YEARS, but there’s a marathon on SciFi right now. I remember loving the first Highlander movie, then the franchise took a horrible nosedive with the crappy, awful sequels. But IMHO, the TV series got it mostly right. No aliens. No pseudoscientific explanations. Just Duncan McLeod and a bunch of other mysterious strangers, fighting it out over the centuries with no known reason or explanation. Sure, it’s dated and cheesy, and the shred-guitar score is laughable, but I like it. 😃 :o ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/2 "2008-12-26T21:21:12Z")
HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT THE SCORE?!?!!?!?!?!? Every hour, on the hour, the cat looks at me like I’m fucking insane, because I’m air-guitar-ing it up to the theme. My favorite Highlander game is called “Holy Shit Who Is THAT?” The winner is the guest star who gets me to exclaim that at the top of my lungs. Current leader: Joe Pants (if that really IS him). Looks like I’m going to work tomorrow instead of today. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/3 "2008-12-27T00:57:47Z")
Methos was the most awesome guy on that show. He didn’t fuck around with tradition, he just killed people. And if you pissed him off, you might as well just lie down on the train tracks now. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/4 "2008-12-27T01:40:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT THE SCORE?!?!!?!?!?!? > > Every hour, on the hour, the cat looks at me like I’m fucking insane, because I’m air-guitar-ing it up to the theme. > My favorite Highlander game is called “Holy Shit Who Is THAT?” > The winner is the guest star who gets me to exclaim that at the top of my lungs. > Current leader: Joe Pants (if that really IS him). > > Looks like I’m going to work tomorrow instead of today. “Hey, is that the lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals?” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/5 "2008-12-27T01:42:11Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Methos was the most awesome guy on that show. He didn’t fuck around with tradition, he just killed people. And if you pissed him off, you might as well just lie down on the train tracks now. I don’t normally do this sort of thing, but: **THIS!** I \<3 Methos. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/6 "2008-12-27T01:45:33Z")
me too, until they pulled that sh\*t with Richie being an immortal… ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/7 "2008-12-27T03:43:06Z")
I loved, loved, loved Duncan’s ponytail. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/8 "2008-12-27T04:28:52Z")
Wow. Highlander: the Source is a whole mountain of suck. This is powerful suck. It has taken the heads of many immortals. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/9 "2008-12-27T04:49:26Z")
Yeah. Other than the first movie, anything more than an hour long that bore the name “Highlander” sucked horribly, horribly bad, and in fact, I am more than half willing to pretend they never existed. Seriously. Never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/10 "2008-12-27T04:53:06Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > me too, until they pulled that sh\*t with Richie being an immortal… Ah yes. They did manage to Scrappy Doo the Highlander franchise. Never a good strategy. The problem with having a character who is a less-competent comic-relief sidekick is that we are NOT going to believe that he’s really going to be a Force To Be Reckoned With. Horrible writing. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/11 "2008-12-27T05:20:37Z")
Am I nuts or does Tessa look like a young, hot version of the mom from 7th Heaven? ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/12 "2008-12-27T05:30:05Z")
I think the whole series is on hulu. I missed the last couple of seasons–I should go catch up. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/13 "2008-12-27T05:33:13Z")
Holy shit. It IS the lead singer from Fine Young Cannibals. (The marathon is still on.) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/14 "2008-12-27T05:53:37Z")
Roland (“God’s”) Gift as Xavier St. Cloud, aka Cheaty McCheaterhead, was in at least 3 eps. He was a right bastard, but I love that jackass. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/15 "2008-12-27T05:56:12Z")
Well, I _said_ it’s been years! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/16 "2008-12-27T06:18:56Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Methos was the most awesome guy on that show. He didn’t fuck around with tradition, he just killed people. And if you pissed him off, you might as well just lie down on the train tracks now. I thought he tried to avoid fights whenever possible. He was one of the better actors on the show. And he was a medical doctor before he became an actor. > [@Ogre](#): > > Holy shit. It IS the lead singer from Fine Young Cannibals. > > (The marathon is still on.) He was a great villain! Highlander was the first message board I ever posted on and visited regularly. My favorite Highlander villain was Kalas from the early seasons. Creepy, loathsome and unpredictable. Oh, and the movies. There was the first one, the third one and later ones. The one between 1 and 3 does not exist. Worst Sean Connery movie ever, including Zardoz. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/17 "2008-12-27T06:34:26Z")
My name is Bobo, and I’m a Highlander-aholic. The TV show did jump the shark eventually, but the first few seasons were pretty good. Haven’t watched them in years, but I think we have season 1-4 on VHS around here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/18 "2008-12-28T03:49:59Z")
I got into this show in the second season. Just watched a couple of the earlier episodes on Hulu. They were much more awkward than I remembered the series being. Richie especially. I think they got a lot better by the time I started watching. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/19 "2008-12-28T05:18:23Z")
I knew the show was gold when Joan Jett guest starred in season 1. I totally had the hots for Duncan’s on-again-off-again immortal girlfriend Amanda. She was a good character, too, but they spun her off into her own series (The Raven) that really sucked. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777/20 "2008-12-28T06:05:06Z")
It definitely had a compelling cast of characters. Too many Quickenings by Duncan tho (aka Kill the Evil Immortal eps). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasure-i-love-the-old-highlander-tv-series/478777.md?page=2)