Richie Ryan was the young immortal student of Duncan Macleod in the television series of Highlander. For five seasons we watched him grow from brash street punk to mature young immortal, gaining skill, understanding and gorgeous muscles along the way.
Then Duncan killed him.
For many of us, Richie was the one that got us interested in the Highlander world. A world full of Immortals endlessly fighting each other, vying for the prize in the Game, was difficult to relate to at first. Richie changed that. He brought our perspective to the show, asking the questions we would ask in his place. He was fallible, he made mistakes and he didnt try to make out he was perfect like Mac often seemed to.
Here is a tribute to Richie's life.
Writing him out of the show was quite unforgiveable to many fans, and totally unjustifiable. It was neither well written nor consistent with the Highlander world up to that point. Many fans say the show ended before Archangel, that everything after that never happened, and Richie lives on. Some are organised, members of Clan Denial.
The Garden Keeper of this memorial garden is one such, the official clan gardener. Enter the doorway to step through into the garden I built for Richie to come into now the show no longer wants him.