Cameron H.

I watched this: Gag! How am I even supposed to tell which one is the beast when they are both so hideous...

I can hardly wait to hear you defend Belle's snobbish contempt for her fellow villagers... Tomspanks' is right. This really is going to be a long week

Oh trust me...nothing adds up.

I don't usually do legit corrections, but here's one. In the episode, Paul brought up how he thought it was weird that MacLeod had to explain to Ramirez what a sculpture is. Paul argued that sculptures have been around for a long time and Ramirez should have been familiar with them. Here's a picture of the sculpture in question. As you can see on the right, the sculpture isn't like a marble bust or something, but a rectangular box with angel wings and three soda bottles inside. So, the joke isn't so much that Ramirez doesn't know what a sculpture is but more "isn't modern art dumb."

I just loved this moment... News Anchor: Cobalt is known to be headed by environmental terrorist Louise Marcus who led the raid and remains at large at this time. MacLeod: Pretty girl. That's right, Highlander. You hear about a capable, intelligent, and formidable woman and you reduce her right down to her looks. Bravo.

One of my favorite lines in Highlander II was when John C. McGinley tells Katana, "You see, I always play the favorite." Because that's how you get rich in the world of Evil Business--always play it safe, never take any calculated risks.

"One Dream" Highlander 2

Is it okay if the majority of my posts are just gifs of Angela Lansbury being awesome?

What's crazy about all of this is that Katana is willing to execute them right away and they tell him he can't. Fast forward a few hundred years and they're like, "Shit, he may choose to come back. We should probably kill him." I imagine it took Katana a great deal of self-restraint to not say, "That's what I've been saying!" Also, their rules of exile have a very Gamer-esque flaw. Basically, all these Immortal political prisoners are exiled to another time/planet/plane of existence where they are left to accumulate power by killing one another, but doesn't this means that only the most powerful Immortal--with the most experience murdering people--will be allowed to return to their time/planet/plane of existence? I mean, I get that's why they're concerned, but those were the rules they set up--which are really stupid. Finally, who cares if he DOES choose to return, you've mastered fucking time travel! If it looks like he's going to make that choice, just send some guys back--I don't know--a few days, weeks, months, whatever before he makes that decision. Jesus! Time travel is wasted on the chronically dumb.

So, at the very end of the movie, MacLeod decapitates Katana by the Shield Generator--thus ushering forth The Quickening. And, as lightning and other nonsense swirls around MacLeod, we hear Ramirez's voice say, "It'll take the power of you both to destroy the Shield." Wait a second, was that their PLAN?* That seems crazy specific. So I guess if Ramirez had lived, he and MacLeod would have had to fight to the death to generate the same amount of energy? But since Ramirez dies on the way, they just have to hope that Katana follows them (preferably alone) to the roof of the Shield generator? What were they going to do had Katana chosen not to follow? Maybe next time they should consider bringing some explosives or something...I just feel like their Plan A was leaving way too much to chance *Or, at least it's Ramirez's plan. Since MacLeod has to be reminded from beyond the grave, apparently he didn't have a clue. I guess Ramirez just assumed that while MacLeod was glowering at the Shield and shaking his fists, he could sneak up and decapitate him from behind--thereby taking all the glory for himself. I mean, considering all MacLeod had to do to resurrect his friend was call his name ONE TIME over the course of 500 years, I can't say I really blame Ramirez for being a little bitter.

Would it surprise you to learn that she's only 17? Not only that, but airplanes still exist! And, according to the quick Google search "average plane altitude," planes are usually assigned a cruising altitude of 39,000 ft--higher for longer flights (which I assume would include a transatlantic flight from Scotland to New York) In other words, the average altitude for flight is 10,000ft higher than Mt Everest--which is still considered to be the tallest mountain in the world. So either all the mountains in the world suddenly had a massive growth spurt or people should be flying over the Shield all the damn time...

Here's one that might just be for the Highlander nerds out there since it gets a little bit into the first movie.... At the beginning of this movie, back in the past/Zeist, Connery's character is asked, "Will you lead us Ramirez?" What's significant about this question is that that means that "Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez" isn't just some assumed name he picks up during his exile, but that it is his actual name. Similarly, this implies that "MacLeod" is Conner's real name. But, in the first movie, he's apart of the clan MacLeod. And, according to IMDb, in the first movie there is an Angus, Dougal, and Kate MacLeod (I think they are supposed to be his father, brother, and sister respectively). So...what's going on there? How did his family pick up a new member without anyone noticing?

Okay, here's something straight up crazy and I can't believe that it hasn't been brought up already. When the eco-terrorist makes her way into MacLeod's Museum of Mementos the first thing she sees is a picture of him with a bunch of guys in old-timey football uniforms. Then, and this is insane, in voice over, we hear MacLeod barking out a play. Specifically, he says, "On three...Break! Red 36, Blue 21! Hike! Hike! Hike!" How in the holy fuck is she hearing his memories? (This all happens at 1:06:51.)

First of all, I'm absolutely thrilled that, in the Hellish nightmare that is 2024, attendance to the theater appears to have gone up. Both the opera and Hamlet seemed to be packed! It's nice to know that although the rest of the world is a flaming mess, people still want to get some goddamn culture. Anyway... When Macleod was driving home from the opera and was watching the news, did anyone else think the breaking news was absolutely ridiculous? For the night's top story, the anchor reports that, "Today's satellite readings from above the shield confirm that highly dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation continue to bombard the planet in the absence of the ozone layer. But here below the shield, we are protected and safe." Um...yeah, guy, we know! That's pretty much been the situation, unchanged, for the past twenty-five years! We don't need a nightly freaking reminder!

While I am on pins and needles waiting to hear what Taylor Anne has in store for us, I just wanted to thank you Tom for the Tommy pick. While pretty much everyone hated it, I think we got a pretty good conversation out of it. So...thank you!

While I get this movie is insane, I honestly think the moment it truly lost me to its madness was when MacLeod and his associate where communicating to each other on the see-through monitor, they capitalized the first letter of EVERY SINGLE WORD! They even capitalized articles and short prepositions! I mean, what the fuck? Who does that? So either this guy has a word processor that is defaulted to capitalize everything or these two chuckledicks need to take it easy on that 'Shift' key--especially on a surreptitious communique.

Okay, let me get this straight: MacLeod is a Scottish Highlander played by an American/Swiss/French actor. Ramirez is a Spaniard, from Egypt, played by a Scottish Actor. Does that mean that Katana, played by Canadian actor Michael Ironside, is supposed to be Japanese?

Great episode! Loved every minute of it! When Katana first materializes in the future he harasses a man with some kind of weird Oculus Rift set up and says, "This sure doesn't look like Kansas, does it?" Obviously, this is a reference to The Wizard of Oz, but how would Katana know that movie at all, let alone well enough to paraphrase it? Like, when he isn't using the "Future Vision" television-hologram-thingy to peep in on MacLeod is he using it to pop over to AMC to watch classic MGM Musicals? Also, while I'm on the topic of "Future Vision" television-hologram-thingy, the Porcupine Brothers argue against going to the future to kill MacLeod because, "He's an old man. He'll be dead in a couple of weeks." Of course, they are shot down and sent to the future anyway, but how about this for an idea bad guys: Why not, just for shits and giggles, instead of complicating matters and risking MacLeod getting his power and Immortality back, fast forward your Computer of Scrying a couple of weeks? You know, just to see what he chooses... Also, by sending the two men to the future to kill MacLeod, and since it has been well established that "there can only be one," after the've killed MacLeod, would the Porcupine Brothers then have to kill one another? I'm just saying, with good Insane Bird-Porcupine henchmen so hard to come by, this plan seems like a flagrant waste of resources.

Wait a minute! That was in the version I watched (I remember because ever since I heard him deliver that line I can't seem to get clean). Does this mean I still somehow managed to watch the wrong version even after asking around? God, I hate this movie! Even finding the right version of it is a fucking three-toed tango of insanity.

Maybe not every match--just the title bouts. I would watch. I wanna see them crazy flipper fingers.

I hope, one day, for all our sakes, we can stop talking about this and move on with our lives. #lesshyperbolemorehilarity

And I don't mean to brag, but I actually discovered HDTGM through The Cracked Podcast--before they were a part of Earwolf, that is.

Paul, I really hope I didn't come off as too hawkish. I only meant, at the time, that it felt like that, not that it was like that. I apologize if my choice of words were at all inflammatory. The bottom line is that I support you guys whatever your decision We cool?

While I stand by the thanks I wrote earlier, I don't disagree with you. In fact, my first reaction upon hearing today's message was, "That's BS!" I felt like, not only were they capitulating to the dissenters, but they were kind of throwing their peers and co-workers under the bus by saying, "Don't subscribe. Just wait and download them when you can." I mean, I believe that's all well and good for three well-to-do, successful (outside of just this podcast) actor/ comedians, but what about the engineers, human resource staff, custodians, etc? I'm thinking, doesn't part of the revenue that your podcast brings in go to pay their salary? This is why I signed up for Howl on Day 1. As one of, if not the, most popular podcasts on the network (at least according to the iTunes ratings I've seen), don't they have a responsibility to add value to the Howl service? It also felt like he was treading a fine very line between loyalty to the company and maintaining fan support. Still, I think they sincerely have their fans' interests at heart and that that is first and foremost in their mind. I can't help but respect them for that. Ultimately, I think their decision is actually the very best. Although keeping the majority of their catalog behind the paywall would add value to the Howl service, this same popularity kind of makes it more important that they keep many of their episodes free. This way, HDTGM becomes the vanguard for Earwolf/Howl. I mean, I would never have tried CBB, Spont, IWTT, or any of the other shows on Earwolf if it wasn't for HDTGM first. Likewise, by leaving a greater number of episodes outside the paywall, new listeners (once indoctrinated into the ways of HDTGM) might be enticed to listen to other shows on Earwolf. Of course, all of this is a totally unscientific and unresearched-lol. It just helped me wrap my head around the decision a little better. Regardless, even if they decided to make their entire catalog free forever, and even though I am not currently listening to any other Earwolf shows, I still think Howl is worthwhile. The one thing I could truly use less of though, is people complaining after Paul has already come forward and offered this extremely generous solution. Right now, I am so over hearing people continue to complain even after their side has essentially won. I hear enough of that in my day-to-day.