Wow, someone's actually reading my Highlander babbling. Cool. :)
That's great that you just discovered the show. I can't imagine watching from the beginning knowing that Methos was one of the horsemen--I watched it as it aired and one of the greatest fictional surprises I've ever experienced was in "Comes a Horseman." I mean, it made sense--it was just so perfect to discover something like that about a character that I'd already loved for a couple of years.
I love that it's the ambiguity of the character that led them to bring him back. How cool is that? And they made him more ambiguous, not less. They never felt the need to "solve" the character, declare him one or the other--they let him stay grey. That's what I love, and what ME could never do--to them everything has to be one or the other, binary, black or white.
That's too bad that the DVDs are full of spoilers. I noticed this too--Adrian Paul's comments about Chivalry on the S4 DVDs give away Comes a Horseman, which took place over a season later. I guess it's been so long everything blurs together and they figure canon is set, no need to worry about spoilers. I can see how it'd be irritating when you're discovering it now for the first time though!
I'm fascinated by the Watcher commentaries on the DVDs. Some of the supplemental material in there is so interesting! I'm really happy with these DVD sets.
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That's great that you just discovered the show. I can't imagine watching from the beginning knowing that Methos was one of the horsemen--I watched it as it aired and one of the greatest fictional surprises I've ever experienced was in "Comes a Horseman." I mean, it made sense--it was just so perfect to discover something like that about a character that I'd already loved for a couple of years.
I love that it's the ambiguity of the character that led them to bring him back. How cool is that? And they made him more ambiguous, not less. They never felt the need to "solve" the character, declare him one or the other--they let him stay grey. That's what I love, and what ME could never do--to them everything has to be one or the other, binary, black or white.
That's too bad that the DVDs are full of spoilers. I noticed this too--Adrian Paul's comments about Chivalry on the S4 DVDs give away Comes a Horseman, which took place over a season later. I guess it's been so long everything blurs together and they figure canon is set, no need to worry about spoilers. I can see how it'd be irritating when you're discovering it now for the first time though!
I'm fascinated by the Watcher commentaries on the DVDs. Some of the supplemental material in there is so interesting! I'm really happy with these DVD sets.
Thanks for commenting. I appreciate it. :)