Highlander The Series - Season 5

Rating:
Summary: Missing Episodes
Review: As far as Highlander goes, this was one of the best seasons. My complaint is that I purchased this from Best Buy then contacted Anchor Bay directly regarding this "complete" season 5 is missing 2 episodes. Episodes 1 "one Minute To Midnight" and episode 17 "Double Jeopardy" are not included. Anchor Bay has been useless in resolving this issue for me. I have read a review in this Amazon site that has made mention of Double Jeopardy and am wondering if any one has purchased this set and actually gotten all 20 episodes. If so could you please direct me to where to purchase this. I welcome any feed back at [e-mail].

Rating:
Summary: price
Review: great box set but if you really want it go to highlander web site and buy it for 39.95 a set all 6 for 240.00 plus the box to put them in for only $1.00

Rating:
Summary: Highlander Season 5
Review: I have seasons 1 through 4 on DVD and now I have season 5 I love Highlander But this is the best season yet. A must have for a Highlander fan.

Rating:
Summary: Season Five of Highlander is Immortal!
Review: Season five of Highlander is another great 22 episodes. This season starts off in a similar fashion as season four did. `Prophecy' takes us back to the Highlands of Scotland when Duncan was only 13 years old; we got to see him in close contact with his cousin Robert, with whom he had to confront in season four's opener `Homeland'. This season also brings home Ritchie, now an immortal with no false belief that Duncan will protect him and watch out for him; he is ready to take care of himself. There are episodes with Huge Fitzcairn, played by the great Rodger Daltrey, and Amanda, and Methos. My favorite episodes in the series `Comes a Horseman' and `Revelations 6:8' are in this season, with additional director's cuts versions of both episodes. This season is great enough on its own, but the DVD set comes packed with interviews and deleted scenes. The interviews are long, and most of them are great to watch. The deleted scenes are fun as well; they show with great detail how much work went in to filming the sword fights. This DVD set is well worth the time and the money. I highly recommend this set for all who enjoy great TV; there is enough action, comedy, science fiction, and drama for any fan.

Rating:
Summary: Highlander Season 5 is 5 stars!
Review: The best season (in my humble opinion). This set is a must for any Highlander fan!

Rating:
Summary: No Missing Episodes!!!
Review: The episodes - "One Minute To Midnight" and "Double Jeopardy" are in the Season 4 Box set.

Those episodes were filmed during season 4 but didn't air in the US until season 5, hence the confusion.

Rating:
Summary: Highlander the almost end of a great show
Review: The quality of the Highlander DVD box sets is a delight through all six releases. Season Five is no exception and contains the same unique special features and great video transfer as the rest. My one major turn off that, unfortunately, seems to be an industry standard is the folding package that takes up the whole coffee table. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the series or the special features which were enough in the first two seasons two make me buy the rest, at a premium for my impatience, from the official site (www.highlander-official.com).

As in the previous season, Highlander season 5 begins with a tale of Duncan's childhood. Through present day events and flashbacks, " Prophecy" shows us a whole new breed of older immortal with powers that certainly would have helped the character of Methos (Peter Wingfield) in earlier seasons, mind control over humans and younger immortals through a powerful form of hypnotic suggestion. We are introduced to the character of Casandra, the first immortal that Duncan (Adrian Paul) ever came into contact with as a child and a fabled witch in his native village. "Prophecy" as befits its title foreshadows the entire season we later find, even to the point of making minor mention of Connor MacLeod, Duncan's distant cousin and the hero of the original Highlander movie. While some may not see the referencing of the original movie for the first time since the pilot for the series as foreshadowing, to me it stands as a statement from the producers that all bets are off.

It is easy to forget that there is now a "chosen one" prophecy hanging over Duncan's head as you get into the season. After his failed attempt to kill Richie Ryan (Stan Kirsch) during his "Dark Quickening" (the "good guy gone evil through no fault of his own" scenario of the previous season), Duncan must make amends with his former pupil or push him away. Relations are still strained with Joe Dawson, his former Watcher now friend and Methos shows up in enough episodes this season that the producers must have been thinking spin-off.

The penultimate season of Highlander has the usual mix of comedic episodes interspersed with the serious. Highlights of the lighter episodes include the return of Roger Daltrey as Hugh Fitzcairn in an entirely "historical" episode entitled "The Stone of Scone" and a "Bonnie and Clyde" style romp with the spin-off character Amanda (Elisabeth Gracen) and her former partner Cory Raines (Nicolas Lea) making Duncan's life miserable both in present day and the past in "Money No Object." The Funniest moments from the season come from an episode entitled "Dramatic License" in which a female author has published a romance novel about Duncan and an exaggerated account of some of his many exploits.

Foreshadowing plays a huge role in this season and the Prophecy that was told in the opening episode starts to come into play in the darker episodes of the season. In "Comes a Horseman" and "Revelation 6:8" we find that Methos has been hiding an a secret of his ancient and evil past that could end up destroying the world. "Double Jeopardy" uses the Highlander master craft of the flashback to reintroduce us to one of the series original and deadliest villains, who may not be dead after all, Xavier St. Cloud (Roland Gift). Finally, "Archangel", the finale, introduces the deadliest threat to immortals yet which may very well Satan himself.



Rating:
Summary: Stop Whining
Review: To the guy complaining about the packaging.......is it REALLY that big a deal? Is your life THAT complicated that you have to complain that they changed the packaging?

Get a life dude.



Rating:
Summary: Why can't Anchor Bay make up its mind
Review: U know when I buy tv shows, I care about the box just as much, especially for the price they sell dvd. Anyways let me warn you all that this box set is different from the other one, it's about twice smaller, and just as many cd. the system they used is very good, I'm just upset they didn't think of it sooner :(. Now the box just don't go well with the other 4 box set, that really sucks. One thing great about this set is the quality, oh my god, finally the dark are watchable and not full of dust. Also the sound is amazing. The extra are by far the most u will ever see in a box set, none has that amount. there is about as much extra that there is episodes. Anyways I say buy it, but u may be disappointed by how the box doesn't match the other 4, too bad, it was almost perfect. The episodes are awesome, my favorite with methos are the knight, u have to see this one. The last episode will get u depress if you watched it since the beginning.