Mountain Men

See! Duncan MacLeod imitate a chipmunk eating berries!

See! The beautiful Marc Singer be absolutely undelectable as the Immortal (yet filthy) Caleb!

See! Tessa be the unwilling hostage to the romantic notions of barbarians with really interesting interpersonal relationships!

Hear! Bones crunching as they heal after Duncan commits suicide by jumping off a cliff!

See and Hear! Wes Studi in the most unconvincing role of his career: the Native American Sheriff Without A Clue!

Enjoy! Duncan MacLeod posing as the Immortal Warrior as the credits roll at the end of the episode!

Okay, got it? Tessa goes to look at pictures drawn by the ancients in the mountains. She's accosted and hostage-ized by three mountain men. Duncan figures something is wrong, so follows her trail into the mountains. Two of the mountain guys are amazed when he jumps rather than is pushed over the cliff. One of the mountain guys is amazed that Tessa's fella carries a sword and immediately jumps to the conclusion that Duncan must be Immortal.

Duncan creeps and crawls through the forests, eats berries, and runs through the water with his shirt off and his pecs doing a [I'm sure someone can explain what those pecs were doing, but I sure can't].

Caleb kills his partner when he thinks Tessa is sweet on him. Duncan trusses up Caleb's son for the sheriff to find. Then Duncan and Caleb do the duel thang. Duncan wins and poses next to the water, looking really heroic.

Questions:

1. Didn't Duncan look absolutely amazing with that longer-than-long hair in the flashbacks as he talks with Carl the Hermit?

2. Didn't you think that Wes Studi was flinching whenever he spoke one of those stock sheriff phrases like "we can't be responsible for your safety" and "I'm gonna be straight with you."

3. Didn't you feel sorry that Caleb had killed Carl the Hermit? I liked Carl. He was my kind o' Hermit. Wouldn't it have been cool if he had been Herman the Hermit?

4. Snap, crackle, pop! discuss.

5. Was Adrian Paul using Method Acting when he imitated a chipmunk eating berries?

6. If Caleb had taken off his shirt, would Tessa have been a little more impressed with him?

7. Wasn't Caleb's offer to fight Duncan "nekkid blade to nekkid blade" kind of cool? Memorable? Has there been any C/D slash written? I bet Caleb cleaned up purty good.