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mackens has never seen highlander and i'm struggling to be normal about it because it's probably not as good as i remember but that show was such a big deal to me as a wee plat
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i remember trying to model myself after adrian paul's duncan for a while
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i'm still so fond of it
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just
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uuuuuuugh
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highlander
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my mom was a big fan but i never watched it
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(mainly bc my mom was a big fan)
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Highlander The Series - All Opening Credits
man, the early openings were very... "We just got these new computers going on."
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the actors had so much fun
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They really did
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I fucking loved Methos so much as a kid
brie.
the curse of being born 5 months after it premiered
brie.
I'VE SEEN QUANTUM LEAP?
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Highlander Gag Reel 2 (The Series)
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wait what does quantum leap have to do with it
brie.
i just know it's a show from before i was born that was apparently popular
❝marti❞
ohh i see
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Oh, hey
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Shout Factory has the movie and the first season on their website. YouTube has the full series.
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Shout! TV | Watch Highlander: The Movie
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Highlander Whole Tv Series Season 1-6 - YouTube
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
My whole family was into the movies from the time they came out because I come from the sort of stock that loves movies about guys with swords
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ahaha
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
I was also raised on Conan (Arnold Edition)
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fun fact
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the reason my mom saw star wars in theaters was because she was tired of seeing Rocky with her boyfriend and she heard Star Wars had swords in it
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
The series is also on... maybe Tubi, maybe the Roku Network, maybe Freevee. Maybe more than one of those.
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
Ahahahaha
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
this is why I'm like, look, politically and morally, I recognize why modern D&D is better
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
But also, I crave the trashy sword and sorcery vibes that I'm not getting from it
𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑡
goddd I remember watching highlander when I was WAY too young to be watching it lmao but it was formative
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
it's because I lived on a diet of Conan and Krull and Highlander and the D&D cartoon and Thundarr as a kid.
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I was not old enough to be watching highlander, ahaha
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And, yeah, old D&D was... real questionable in some spots
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But it had a totally different tone that modern D&D just fails to deliver.
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and that's the 70s~90s fantasy vibes
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pulp, but on film.
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this is at the museum of pop culture in Seattle and I laughed like a hyena
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the white box is an ~artifact~ now
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fft
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at least they didn't choose a page with poorly drawn titties out
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
bad art and all
6LilacMimeLions
also:
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
What was really cool is if you know someone who played from this or slightly later stuff, their character sheet art was often as good as the book art
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
My uncle played D&D in the early 80s. He was in his early 20s. That art from the white box is about commensurate with what he and his friends were doing.
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D&D's too fond of its art now. 5E books would be half the length they are now if every other page wasn't half-filled with artwork.
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Which is an odd complaint to make, I know
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But it's just sacrificing content and layout for aesthetics.
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you could make this cheaper, wizards
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
I mean... you're not wrong. Some canon art looked just like my last wizard, but at the same time, she was just kind of there on a random ~vibes~ page in the middle of the book
𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗!
In the color version, she's a blue-haired moon elf. (Or silvery? One of those.) 
