highlander dvd question

[rusty_halo]

Um, question for any Highlander people out there. I'm trying to figure out which DVDs to buy. There's seasons 1 - 3 released by Anchor Bay, and there's all seasons at highlandercatalog.com. Are they different? Which is better? Is it safe to buy seasons four and five from highlandercatalog.com now or should I wait for the Anchor Bay releases? Which version of season three should I buy? I can't find any info as to whether these are all the same or different or what--I want whichever is best.

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Re: Season 3 is my favourite

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

I did like S3, but there's not enough Methos in it for me. Before he showed up, I found the show entertaining, but I didn't think about it more than the hour it took to watch. Methos got inside my head and made me a fan, not just a viewer.

I also really loved when the series started to get into the big themes of moral ambiguity in seasons four and five. The Kalas story was a bit too black and white for me (even though he was a great villain). My favorite episodes are stuff like The Valkyrie, where there are no easy answers. (And of course, Comes a Horseman/Revelation 6:8, where Methos gets to be so delightfully ambiguous.)

I agree with all your criticisms of five and six, though. It got cheesier and cheesier (and it was even more disappointing because we knew it could do better). S6 is just unspeakable--I'm glad I missed most of those eps.

I watched about five minutes of The Raven once and wanted to gag. And Endgame--ugh. It's really too bad.