What if the show had gone on into season 7?

And don't forget Kenny, the child Immortal. As much as I love certain shows, I can't stand it when a show starts something but doesn't revisit that particular story thread.

It should have ended with season 5, you can tell by watching season 6 that Adrian Paul did not want to do it anymore.

no sadly Stan Kirsch wanted to continue playing Richie because he as well as the writer that created him, were so attached to each other.
it was Adrian Paul that said they need to kill off one of the regulars. that that would be enough of an impact to take Duncan MacLeod into a different direction.
Abramowitz chose Richie. which in their defense made sense because Richie was always the sidekick. they did all they could with having him be the central focus of several episodes and see him grow up and be educated as an immortal. by season 5 he was a guest star, so as a surprise ending they killed him off in a fairly interesting uncommon way.
i liked that Richie's death did turn MacLeod into a more passive character. he became more zen-like and less of the boy scout. he was no longer the guy trying to get into people's business and be the judge, jury, and executioner.

what i didnt like about season 6 is that the regulars didnt return till the end of the season. so Richie dying was like if Methos, Joe, and Amanda died too. because they were absent for the entire season. there was little to no character development for them.
the reason for that was because they didnt know a sixth season was going to be made. so they each went and did their own thing.
Adrian Paul was the one who wanted out because in his mind he was going to be a big star and do movies. similar to how Christophe Lambert was a big movie star in the early 90s.

as to where are they now?..



Stan Kirsch did a few projects. in recent years hes been an acting teacher. which is pretty cool i suppose. hes been acting since he was a young kid. so he has lots of experience.

Elizabeth Gracen who had gone back to art school during season six had done The Raven tv series during a time when her life was just filled with drama. after that got cancelled she got into financial difficulties and did bit parts in tv shows here and there. in 2002 she basically retired from acting. last thing i heard of her was she returned to acting and was doing voiceover work.

Jim Byrnes had his own little tv show for a time. but mostly hes just been doing music the past 10 years.

Peter Wingfield retired from acting and went back to medical school. so he is a doctor by now.

Adrian Paul is still an actor and producer. he has been involved in a few projects the past 10 years. not big mainstream movies , but small indie flicks. some have been pretty good, others very cheap looking and weak storytelling.

Paul was tired of doing the tv series. and its understandable that since he lived the character for 6 straight years , that as an actor it grew tiresome. as with all actors, he wanted to move on to something else and play different roles. he was fine with doing Highlander films because the scheduling for making a movie is more lengthy in time. whereas a weekly tv series consisted of working almost every single day on a rushed schedule.
in those 6 years he picked up all the usual skills that one tends to on a production that spans that long. he became a pretty good director in the process.
so Highlander Endgame was something he was all in favor of. it was after that that Highlander didnt really pickup any more popularity.so he was kind of fed up with the stigma behind it. that he was always being stereotyped and only known as Duncan MacLeod. he stated before that the character is NOT him. that he as an individual is very different. so he very much wanted to distance himself from Highlander.

he did Highlander:The Source because he was given the role of Executive Producer. so he went in with the good faith that he would have more control over the production and have it be done right. if youve seen in any of the behind the scenes material from the span of the franchise, he is very very serious about Highlander and the characters. he knows how things should and shouldnt play out.
though as the problem with the past 3 Highlander films..they got a director that didnt really know what he was doing. it was a failed project from the getgo. it never even had an ending filmed. thats how bad it was.

that film killed the franchise. when Bill Panzer passed away, that was the final slap to the face.
in recent years Adrian Paul got over it and embraced the fact that he got to play such an iconic television character. which is why you seem him at conventions a lot, answering Highlander related questions while at the same time trying to promote his other work.
its a shame he didnt do more Highlander related stuff outside of the audio adventure recordings. i mean the guy has aged gracefully, he still looks the same as he did 10 years ago. we could have had plenty of Highlander films the past decade if only the franchise had more backing.

Oh dear, that is sad to hear.