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Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 05:22:25 PM
My 11 Highlander questions:

1. Why even bother with a "Renegade Cut" edition of Highlander 2?

2. Why?

3. Why?!

4. WHY?

5. WHY?

6. WHY?

7. WHY?

8. WHY?

9. WHY?

10. What's your general opinion of Sean Connery's impact on the series entire?

11. WHY?!
 
RocketRod [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 05:27:52 PM
There should have been only one (movie)!
 
Quasar [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 05:29:52 PM
12) Do you have inside you blood of kings?
(answer: YEAH!)
 
ParallelUniverseParking [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 05:45:25 PM
RocketRod: There should have been only one (movie)!

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calbert [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 05:53:40 PM
Why are the 19 inch Bridgestone Dueler 400 tires that come standard on the Highlander Limited not stocked by any tire retailer?
 
punkrockgirl [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 07:07:40 PM
i66.photobucket.com
 
slightly_damaged
2010-09-01 08:17:40 PM
I dunno what it is about Wingfield. He's fairly plain-looking, but I think he's one of the hottest guys around. Great personality.

/Highlander fangirl
//Not in a crazy way though

pwfc2.org

images.tvrage.com
 
texdent [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 09:18:31 PM
I was just reading somewhere they have access to some dimension where they kept their swords.
 
EdgeRunner
2010-09-01 09:23:14 PM
texdent: I was just reading somewhere they have access to some dimension where they kept their swords.

Yeah, it's called Dimension Pants.

/wait, does this post make me look gay?
//or fat? It's the diagonal slashies, isn't it? They're not very slimming.
 
mhd
2010-09-01 09:31:19 PM
11 Highlander Questions from me, age 12

1. Have you ever touched Adrian Pauls pony tail?
2. <- WHY?
3. What's a cooler weapon, a katana or a claymore?
4. Could an immortal store enough electricity to do Force Lighting?
5. Who *doesn't* want to live forever?
6. Is sex with a 80 year old still icky if you've known here when she was 25?
7. Can you regrow body parts?
8. If yes, does this pose a problem for Jewish immortals?
9. Why aren't there more ninja immortals? Or are there?
10. How do you do the trench coat trick and could I apply this to embarrassing visits to the swimming pool?
11. Could a immortal beat a Vampire who invested highly in Celerity and Vigor?
 
Loucifer
2010-09-01 09:36:08 PM
12. Did the Highlanders lose their honor when they switched sides to Davion in the Fourth Succession War?
 
Bith Set Me Up
2010-09-01 09:47:34 PM
How can an Egyptian, posing as a Spaniard, have a Scottish accent?
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2010-09-01 09:55:08 PM
Was the Highlander really a documentary, and did the events really happen in real time?
 
BHShaman
2010-09-01 09:57:21 PM
Loucifer: 12. Did the Highlanders lose their honor when they switched sides to Davion in the Fourth Succession War?

awesome
 
Shadowknight
2010-09-01 09:59:01 PM
mhd: 7. Can you regrow body parts?

I guess I'm going to be a huge geek and admit that this still bothers me to this day. I find it hard to believe that Methos lived 5000 years and went through so many battles without losing SOMETHING, even a finger, so I would think they do. But not knowing just drives me nutty.

Bith Set Me Up: How can an Egyptian, posing as a Spaniard, have a Scottish accent?

Yes.
 
Vash's Apprentice
2010-09-01 09:59:13 PM
Who thought a Highlander cartoon was a good idea?

Why did the Highlander game suck so bad?

What are the chances of getting a good Highlander game?

Where is Methos's sword now?

Did Methos and Ramirez ever run into eachother?

If so, why wasn't there an epic duel?

Did you ever get it on with Tracy Scoggins?

Was the guard in X2 Methos working covert ops?

If you circumcise an Immortal, does it grow back?
 
Spade
2010-09-01 10:10:42 PM
What would've happened if Ramirez and MacLeod had been the last two?
 
2CountyFairs
2010-09-01 10:12:58 PM
Shadowknight: mhd: 7. Can you regrow body parts?

I guess I'm going to be a huge geek and admit that this still bothers me to this day. I find it hard to believe that Methos lived 5000 years and went through so many battles without losing SOMETHING, even a finger, so I would think they do. But not knowing just drives me nutty.

I'm guessing that they don't regrow lost body parts. Xavier St. Cloud didn't regrow his arm when Duncan cut it off.
 
scotty425
2010-09-01 10:20:03 PM
Shadowknight: mhd: 7. Can you regrow body parts?

I guess I'm going to be a huge geek and admit that this still bothers me to this day. I find it hard to believe that Methos lived 5000 years and went through so many battles without losing SOMETHING, even a finger, so I would think they do. But not knowing just drives me nutty.i>

Nope, Immortals do not regrow lost body parts. Duncan MacLeod lopped off the hand of Xavier St. Cloud and it didn't grow back.
 
Shadowknight
2010-09-01 10:23:53 PM
2CountyFairs: I'm guessing that they don't regrow lost body parts. Xavier St. Cloud didn't regrow his arm when Duncan cut it off.

Good point, I guess. And Victor Kruger's voice was never the same after Ramirez farked up his neck. Still, after all the battles over the course of thousands of years, it seems like Methos and other immortals would be little more than scar tissue with mouths. It would be easy to see who the immortals are, because they'd all be really ugly mother farkers.

/realize inconsistencies happen with generations of writers
 
Mega Steve
2010-09-01 10:37:51 PM
How is imortil babby formed?
 
InferiousX
2010-09-01 11:11:05 PM
1.) Who's idea was it to make Duncan the one who would get Connor's power?

2.) Where do they live?

3.) Could you provide me a list of their weaknesses and greatest fears
 
InferiousX
2010-09-01 11:14:21 PM
Oh and I had no idea they were rebooting the series. If there ever was a series that needed a fresh start, Highlander is it.

I mean, you have a story based around badass immortals with awesome swords who cut off each others heads, and when that does happen, lighting shoots out and the winner basically levels up.

If you can't amuse your target demographic working with that material, you fail as a writer and probably as a human being in general.
 
whistleridge [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 11:19:55 PM
After 20 years of kenjutsu, 20 of fencing, and almost 30 of karate, aikido and judo, I can't help but wonder:

1. Polearms/staffs/spears generally beat swords with ease. They have to be, since points are vastly quicker than edges. So why does everyone insist on a sword? After all, once you wound him/her enough and he/she is immobilized on the ground, you can cut their head off with a pocketknife if you so choose.

2. To extend this question, why not arrows and guns? I carry a street sweeper and a bowie knife, you carry a broadsword. Unless you have special powers or sneak up behind me, I am *going* to win.

3. Why not more emphasis on stealth and ninja skills? A ninja with a shotgun and a knife or a sniper with a knife would work a lot better I would think.

4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?

5. How did immortals kill each other back in the day? Swords with functional (read: beheading) edges are a relatively recent development, historically. The metallurgy just wasn't there. Which is why the Romans used short swords. Any longer, and they had a distressing tendency to bend around the other guy's sword/shield/whatever.

6. Civilization has been around about 7000 years, but homo sapiens is at least 10 - 30 times older than that. Were there no caveman immortals? Or was there just one back in the day, and they spread? If there can be only one, and they can't have kids, how did there ever get to be more than one?

7. If the immortals are so old and experienced and awesome with swords and all, why do they all use known (human-created) Asian forms? Why haven't they become the masters of their own forms. I mean, Miyamoto Musashi was awesome and all, but surely a 1500 year old immortal would make him look like chump change?

8. WHY DON'T THEY WEAR ARMOR? ESPECIALLY SINCE MODERN ARMORS ARE SO EFFECTIVE AND SO LIGHT. Sure, armor got abandoned for being too slow, but that was against the point and projectile weapons, not the edge. The point and the projectile developed because armor defeated the edge entirely. It won the battle. Duncan MacLeod may be a badass with that sword, but there's no way in hell he beats a newborn immortal in full 15th century armor with a polearm, a mace, a sword and a shotgun. It just doesn't happen.

9. Why are the overwhelming majority of immortals white and male? And for that matter, why are they almost all Christian or pagan? Were there no Jews, no Muslims, no Buddhists?

10. Why do the movies suck so bad? And what on Earth possessed them to put a FRENCH CANADIAN in the lead role??
 
iaazathot
2010-09-01 11:35:06 PM
whistleridge: After 20 years of kenjutsu, 20 of fencing, and almost 30 of karate, aikido and judo, I can't help but wonder:

1. Polearms/staffs/spears generally beat swords with ease. They have to be, since points are vastly quicker than edges. So why does everyone insist on a sword? After all, once you wound him/her enough and he/she is immobilized on the ground, you can cut their head off with a pocketknife if you so choose.

2. To extend this question, why not arrows and guns? I carry a street sweeper and a bowie knife, you carry a broadsword. Unless you have special powers or sneak up behind me, I am *going* to win.

3. Why not more emphasis on stealth and ninja skills? A ninja with a shotgun and a knife or a sniper with a knife would work a lot better I would think.

4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?

5. How did immortals kill each other back in the day? Swords with functional (read: beheading) edges are a relatively recent development, historically. The metallurgy just wasn't there. Which is why the Romans used short swords. Any longer, and they had a distressing tendency to bend around the other guy's sword/shield/whatever.

6. Civilization has been around about 7000 years, but homo sapiens is at least 10 - 30 times older than that. Were there no caveman immortals? Or was there just one back in the day, and they spread? If there can be only one, and they can't have kids, how did there ever get to be more than one?

7. If the immortals are so old and experienced and awesome with swords and all, why do they all use known (human-created) Asian forms? Why haven't they become the masters of their own forms. I mean, Miyamoto Musashi was awesome and all, but surely a 1500 year old immortal would make him look like chump change?

8. WHY DON'T THEY WEAR ARMOR? ESPECIALLY SINCE MODERN ARMORS ARE SO EFFECTIVE AND SO LIGHT. Sure, armor got abandoned for being too slow, but that was against the point and projectile weapons, not the edge. The point and the projectile developed because armor defeated the edge entirely. It won the battle. Duncan MacLeod may be a badass with that sword, but there's no way in hell he beats a newborn immortal in full 15th century armor with a polearm, a mace, a sword and a shotgun. It just doesn't happen.

9. Why are the overwhelming majority of immortals white and male? And for that matter, why are they almost all Christian or pagan? Were there no Jews, no Muslims, no Buddhists?

10. Why do the movies suck so bad? And what on Earth possessed them to put a FRENCH CANADIAN in the lead role??

Good questions. I have a similar background to yours.

I think some of your questions can be answered by, because they were minorities.

Good questions though.
 
sirbissel
2010-09-01 11:50:41 PM
How did Jamie actually meet the Doctor?
 
InferiousX
2010-09-02 12:22:19 AM
whistleridge: 2. To extend this question, why not arrows and guns?

There were rules to the fights. No guns was one of them. I assume any other form of projectile weapon was also frowned upon.
 
Darth Invictus
2010-09-02 12:33:08 AM
There was only ONE Highlander movie. The TV show was OK.

But there WAS a Zardoz 2 movie, starring Sean Connery and co-starring Christopher Lambert.
 
LectertheChef
2010-09-02 12:46:50 AM
whistleridge: After 20 years of kenjutsu, 20 of fencing, and almost 30 of karate, aikido and judo, I can't help but wonder:

1. Polearms/staffs/spears generally beat swords with ease. They have to be, since points are vastly quicker than edges. So why does everyone insist on a sword? After all, once you wound him/her enough and he/she is immobilized on the ground, you can cut their head off with a pocketknife if you so choose.

2. To extend this question, why not arrows and guns? I carry a street sweeper and a bowie knife, you carry a broadsword. Unless you have special powers or sneak up behind me, I am *going* to win.

3. Why not more emphasis on stealth and ninja skills? A ninja with a shotgun and a knife or a sniper with a knife would work a lot better I would think.

4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?

5. How did immortals kill each other back in the day? Swords with functional (read: beheading) edges are a relatively recent development, historically. The metallurgy just wasn't there. Which is why the Romans used short swords. Any longer, and they had a distressing tendency to bend around the other guy's sword/shield/whatever.

6. Civilization has been around about 7000 years, but homo sapiens is at least 10 - 30 times older than that. Were there no caveman immortals? Or was there just one back in the day, and they spread? If there can be only one, and they can't have kids, how did there ever get to be more than one?

7. If the immortals are so old and experienced and awesome with swords and all, why do they all use known (human-created) Asian forms? Why haven't they become the masters of their own forms. I mean, Miyamoto Musashi was awesome and all, but surely a 1500 year old immortal would make him look like chump change?

8. WHY DON'T THEY WEAR ARMOR? ESPECIALLY SINCE MODERN ARMORS ARE SO EFFECTIVE AND SO LIGHT. Sure, armor got abandoned for being too slow, but that was against the point and projectile weapons, not the edge. The point and the projectile developed because armor defeated the edge entirely. It won the battle. Duncan MacLeod may be a badass with that sword, but there's no way in hell he beats a newborn immortal in full 15th century armor with a polearm, a mace, a sword and a shotgun. It just doesn't happen.

9. Why are the overwhelming majority of immortals white and male? And for that matter, why are they almost all Christian or pagan? Were there no Jews, no Muslims, no Buddhists?

10. Why do the movies suck so bad? And what on Earth possessed them to put a FRENCH CANADIAN in the lead role??

It's a story about immortals who go around cutting each other's heads off and getting hit by lightning, and you want realism? That's like people complaining about a porn star faking an orgasm.
 
Sairobi
2010-09-02 01:04:06 AM
slightly_damaged: I dunno what it is about Wingfield. He's fairly plain-looking, but I think he's one of the hottest guys around. Great personality.

/Highlander fangirl
//Not in a crazy way though

Plain-looking, ffffs. That man has one of my favorite noses ever.

/Fangirl too!
//Well, Methos fangirl anyway. And Amanda!
 
InferiousX
2010-09-02 01:08:42 AM
Darth Invictus: But there WAS a Zardoz 2 movie, starring Sean Connery and co-starring Christopher Lambert.

win
 
Vegan T-Rex
2010-09-02 01:12:19 AM
whistleridge: 4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?

The series had a couple conflicting solutions to this.

In one episode, an immortal saves Duncan from being beheaded by mortals, then later tried to behead Duncan in his sleep. Before Duncan wipes the sleep out of his eyes and takes the dude's head, he asks the other immortal why he saved him in the first place. The other immortal didn't want to "waste a quickening".

In another episode, Richie recieves a quickening when an immortal near him commits suicide by lying down with his neck across the railroad tracks.

I guess that first guy should have just asked those guys if they needed a hand dispatching Duncan and taken the freebee.

/Plot holes in Highlander? Who knew?
 
Babies with Rabies
2010-09-02 01:24:29 AM
11 versions of "Why is Methos so awesome?"

Please.

I only had one question "If there was "only one" at the end of the first movie, where the fat holy hell did all the thousands of other immortals come from for the teevee series?"
 
wombat18
2010-09-02 03:44:26 AM
Sairobi: slightly_damaged: I dunno what it is about Wingfield. He's fairly plain-looking, but I think he's one of the hottest guys around. Great personality.

/Highlander fangirl
//Not in a crazy way though

Plain-looking, ffffs. That man has one of my favorite noses ever.

/Fangirl too!
//Well, Methos fangirl anyway. And Amanda!

Add me to the list of fangirls who pretty much only watched that show for Methos. I have no idea why, but that nose just pushes all my buttons.
 
TappingTheVein
2010-09-02 03:56:02 AM
 
mekki
2010-09-02 09:22:14 AM
wombat18: Sairobi: slightly_damaged: I dunno what it is about Wingfield. He's fairly plain-looking, but I think he's one of the hottest guys around. Great personality.

/Highlander fangirl
//Not in a crazy way though

Plain-looking, ffffs. That man has one of my favorite noses ever.

/Fangirl too!
//Well, Methos fangirl anyway. And Amanda!

Add me to the list of fangirls who pretty much only watched that show for Methos. I have no idea why, but that nose just pushes all my buttons.

Thank God for Fark because I thought I was the only fangirl who felt this way. Awesome nose. (Though I wouldn't kick out the rest of him for eating crackers in bed.)
 
ScouserDuck
2010-09-02 09:31:10 AM
InferiousX: whistleridge: 2. To extend this question, why not arrows and guns?

There were rules to the fights. No guns was one of them. I assume any other form of projectile weapon was also frowned upon.

Thanks a lot Bin Laden!
 
Lampmonster
2010-09-02 09:36:12 AM
whistleridge: After 20 years of kenjutsu, 20 of fencing, and almost 30 of karate, aikido and judo, I can't help but wonder:

1. Polearms/staffs/spears generally beat swords with ease. They have to be, since points are vastly quicker than edges. So why does everyone insist on a sword? After all, once you wound him/her enough and he/she is immobilized on the ground, you can cut their head off with a pocketknife if you so choose.


2. To extend this question, why not arrows and guns? I carry a street sweeper and a bowie knife, you carry a broadsword. Unless you have special powers or sneak up behind me, I am *going* to win.
This was explored in the series. Duncan dealt with a guy that used a squad of mercineries to take out other immortals. Duncan caught them off guard and took them out, forcing the immortal into an old school duel.

3. Why not more emphasis on stealth and ninja skills? A ninja with a shotgun and a knife or a sniper with a knife would work a lot better I would think.
Again, this was done. There was even a guy that focused on poison and poison gasses to take out his rivals.

4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?
It's wasted. The watchers started killing immortals at one point. They even killed Darius, one of the oldest immortals. Nothing happened.

5. How did immortals kill each other back in the day? Swords with functional (read: beheading) edges are a relatively recent development, historically. The metallurgy just wasn't there. Which is why the Romans used short swords. Any longer, and they had a distressing tendency to bend around the other guy's sword/shield/whatever.
In Methos' flashbacks he used a short bronze sword.

6. Civilization has been around about 7000 years, but homo sapiens is at least 10 - 30 times older than that. Were there no caveman immortals? Or was there just one back in the day, and they spread? If there can be only one, and they can't have kids, how did there ever get to be more than one?
Duncan dated to the bronze age. There were other immortals then. Guess they didn't last long enough. Immortality is not genetic.

7. If the immortals are so old and experienced and awesome with swords and all, why do they all use known (human-created) Asian forms? Why haven't they become the masters of their own forms. I mean, Miyamoto Musashi was awesome and all, but surely a 1500 year old immortal would make him look like chump change?

They are and do.

8. WHY DON'T THEY WEAR ARMOR? ESPECIALLY SINCE MODERN ARMORS ARE SO EFFECTIVE AND SO LIGHT. Sure, armor got abandoned for being too slow, but that was against the point and projectile weapons, not the edge. The point and the projectile developed because armor defeated the edge entirely. It won the battle. Duncan MacLeod may be a badass with that sword, but there's no way in hell he beats a newborn immortal in full 15th century armor with a polearm, a mace, a sword and a shotgun. It just doesn't happen.

They wore armor when it was acceptable. Do you think an immortal could walk around in full metal armor in modern day New York and not raise any questions?

9. Why are the overwhelming majority of immortals white and male? And for that matter, why are they almost all Christian or pagan? Were there no Jews, no Muslims, no Buddhists?

TV. There were immortals from every conceivable background on the show though. They just weren't the stars.

10. Why do the movies suck so bad? And what on Earth possessed them to put a FRENCH CANADIAN in the lead role??

Good question.
 
Tax Boy
2010-09-02 10:29:04 AM
whistleridge: 6. Civilization has been around about 7000 years, but homo sapiens is at least 10 - 30 times older than that. Were there no caveman immortals? Or was there just one back in the day, and they spread? If there can be only one, and they can't have kids, how did there ever get to be more than one?

Cavemen immortals star in Geico commercials.
 
2CountyFairs
2010-09-02 10:59:10 AM
Vegan T-Rex: whistleridge: 4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?

The series had a couple conflicting solutions to this.

In one episode, an immortal saves Duncan from being beheaded by mortals, then later tried to behead Duncan in his sleep. Before Duncan wipes the sleep out of his eyes and takes the dude's head, he asks the other immortal why he saved him in the first place. The other immortal didn't want to "waste a quickening".

In another episode, Richie recieves a quickening when an immortal near him commits suicide by lying down with his neck across the railroad tracks.

I guess that first guy should have just asked those guys if they needed a hand dispatching Duncan and taken the freebee.

/Plot holes in Highlander? Who knew?

Don't forget about Darius. He was killed by a human and there was no quickening. This actually pissed me off when it happened, until I read recently that the actor playing Darius was written out of the show because he had cancer, and he actually died before they could film the scene (so they used old footage).

Also, I just assumed that the quickening occurs whenever there is another immortal around, regardless of how the beheading happens. In your example above, I'd say that the guy might have been close enough to trigger the quickening should Duncan have been killed, but he would have been easily spotted by the people that killed Duncan and he would have been killed, too (they are pretty vulnerable when they absorb the quickening, after all).
 
The Billdozer
2010-09-02 11:04:43 AM
The All-Powerful Atheismo: Was the Highlander really a documentary, and did the events really happen in real time?

Approves:

quizfarm.com
 
cefm
2010-09-02 11:54:45 AM
The Raven? Seriously, WTF?
 
Lampmonster
2010-09-02 01:16:34 PM
2CountyFairs: Vegan T-Rex: whistleridge: 4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?

The series had a couple conflicting solutions to this.

In one episode, an immortal saves Duncan from being beheaded by mortals, then later tried to behead Duncan in his sleep. Before Duncan wipes the sleep out of his eyes and takes the dude's head, he asks the other immortal why he saved him in the first place. The other immortal didn't want to "waste a quickening".

In another episode, Richie recieves a quickening when an immortal near him commits suicide by lying down with his neck across the railroad tracks.

I guess that first guy should have just asked those guys if they needed a hand dispatching Duncan and taken the freebee.

/Plot holes in Highlander? Who knew?

Don't forget about Darius. He was killed by a human and there was no quickening. This actually pissed me off when it happened, until I read recently that the actor playing Darius was written out of the show because he had cancer, and he actually died before they could film the scene (so they used old footage).

Also, I just assumed that the quickening occurs whenever there is another immortal around, regardless of how the beheading happens. In your example above, I'd say that the guy might have been close enough to trigger the quickening should Duncan have been killed, but he would have been easily spotted by the people that killed Duncan and he would have been killed, too (they are pretty vulnerable when they absorb the quickening, after all).

I think you're right about proximaty. I recall an episode with a mentally challenged (Can't say retarded anymore) highlander. At the end of the episode everyone decided he was too much trouble and he laid down with his neck on railroad tracks. Duncan was nearby and he got the guy's juice.
 
DeusMeh
2010-09-02 02:41:16 PM
late to the party but i need to geek out.

i've had a love/hate relationship with highlander since i was 10 and methos was hands down the best thing to come out of it all. i agree whole heartedly with peter that the TV spinoff should have opened up the world of immortals centering around joe and methos. that episode of season 6 was a bittersweet glimps of what could have been instead of the abortion that was The Raven.

i loved his answer about his thoughts on the 2 movies he was in. the whole time watching those i thought there was no way anyone involved was happy with the project...and it showed. glad to see pete has the balls to come out and say it...though i wish he would've had them during filming to try to steer the movies back in the right direction.

the problem with highlander is 50% solved now that half of davis/panzer is dead. those guys were shameless in raping the property to squeeze out every last penny they could. ever get a call from the highlander catalog people?? i have really high hopes the reboot will wash away the utter disappointment of the last 15 years or so and i think the lynchpin of a successful plan to do so include peter/methos
 
Mattevil
2010-09-02 03:23:33 PM
Lampmonster: 2CountyFairs: Vegan T-Rex: whistleridge: 4. If an immortal is beheaded by a non-immortal (even if rare, it had to have happened once or twice, even if just by artillery rounds), is the quickening wasted? Or maybe they just don't die?

The series had a couple conflicting solutions to this.

In one episode, an immortal saves Duncan from being beheaded by mortals, then later tried to behead Duncan in his sleep. Before Duncan wipes the sleep out of his eyes and takes the dude's head, he asks the other immortal why he saved him in the first place. The other immortal didn't want to "waste a quickening".

In another episode, Richie recieves a quickening when an immortal near him commits suicide by lying down with his neck across the railroad tracks.

I guess that first guy should have just asked those guys if they needed a hand dispatching Duncan and taken the freebee.

/Plot holes in Highlander? Who knew?

Don't forget about Darius. He was killed by a human and there was no quickening. This actually pissed me off when it happened, until I read recently that the actor playing Darius was written out of the show because he had cancer, and he actually died before they could film the scene (so they used old footage).

Also, I just assumed that the quickening occurs whenever there is another immortal around, regardless of how the beheading happens. In your example above, I'd say that the guy might have been close enough to trigger the quickening should Duncan have been killed, but he would have been easily spotted by the people that killed Duncan and he would have been killed, too (they are pretty vulnerable when they absorb the quickening, after all).

I think you're right about proximaty. I recall an episode with a mentally challenged (Can't say retarded anymore) highlander. At the end of the episode everyone decided he was too much trouble and he laid down with his neck on railroad tracks. Duncan was nearby and he got the guy's juice.

That would explain why Duncan was such a tard.
 
RsquaredW
2010-09-02 03:36:16 PM
Bith Set Me Up: How can an Egyptian, posing as a Spaniard, have a Scottish accent?

And why a Japanese sword? European steel was just as good, probably better at the time and far easier to replace.

// I have been known to play TF2 with the Eyelander and the Hustler's Hallmark while shouting, "You cannot die Maclaod!"
 
Bith Set Me Up
2010-09-02 11:58:08 PM
RsquaredW: Bith Set Me Up: How can an Egyptian, posing as a Spaniard, have a Scottish accent?

And why a Japanese sword? European steel was just as good, probably better at the time and far easier to replace.

// I have been known to play TF2 with the Eyelander and the Hustler's Hallmark while shouting, "You cannot die Maclaod!"

Apparently, the Japanese sword's got something to do with a past love, who he painfully outlived, which is why he tried to make Connor break up with Heather (if I remember her name correctly).
 
2CountyFairs
2010-09-03 07:44:51 AM
You know, I see a great deal of Highlander 2 hate (deservingly so), but I wonder what Farkers think of the other even bigger steaming pile Highlander: The Source. At least we got more Ramirez and Michael Ironside with 2. Other than having Methos as one of the main characters, what did The Source have to offer?
 
Vegan T-Rex
2010-09-03 02:46:54 PM
Mattevil: Lampmonster: That would explain why Duncan was such a tard.

Richie got that quickening... but since Duncan gets Richie's, I guess the point still stands.
 
professional_vampire [TotalFark]
2010-09-03 08:05:55 PM
My favorite Methos quote:

Methos: "I was in Rome once, 23 AD, the Coliseum. I saw Christians facing the lions. Some of them actually looked happy to die for their faith."

Duncan: "Your point, or are we just strolling down memory lane here?"

Methos: "That afterwards, the only ones looking happy were the lions."
 
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