Thread 214039407

So they want to reach mortality by proving others are mortal by cutting their heads off? Mortality is the prize? Why not just let your head get cut off then? Who dares to live forever?

>>214039407 (OP)
how many drugs did you take before you made this thread

>>214039407 (OP)
HERE WE ARE!

OP is a fag who will never experience the quickening.

>>214039407 (OP)
The morrel of the story is that mortality is a gift? I'm sorry I just got back from Zeist, mind's a little woozy.

>>214039407 (OP)
>So they want to
They're magically compelled to. They're essentially normal mortal people with 3 exceptions
>can't die unless decapitated
>instantly feel when another one of their kind is nearby and are compelled to kill them
>gain an addictive power by beheading their own kind
They've shown that the impulse can be resisted, especially with friends and family, but there were plenty of episodes about people being unable to resist the urge too.

I just dont want to be associated with trash anymore

>>214039463
I quickened 4 times today, and I'll probably quicken again before bed

>>214039549
The show goes deeper than that. Everyone around them dies. Mortality is a prize only one of them can have. Like you said, they are compelled to do it. Funnily enough they cut heads lef and right, making their opponents dead. It's an act of mercy. The quickening is also a drugs, like you said.

>>214039407 (OP)
It's a stupid concept. I have no idea why it was even ONE movie let alone sequels and that stupid syndicated show. Even as a 12 year old boy when it was airing I didn't think it was cool.
A very specific kind of nerd likes it. Not your sci-fi, Trek nerd, but it's still nerd. Like Conan the Barbarian nerds or something. But I've seen them.
A big Hawaiian looking dude with a mullet used to be at my bus stop in Portland and he had this Highlander leather jacket. You could tell he had cheap, mail-order swords at home.

>>214039637
>Who dares to live forever
Freddy summarized it in one sentence. Living forever was a curse because it had no stakes. Not their fault your peabrain can't take it.

>>214039677
Why are you responding to me with that? Doesn't seem relevant to what I posted at all.

>>214039677
>>214039877
No way, we are dubs bros, how cool is that? Because it turns the concept of wanting to be immortal on it's head. They desire to be mortal. Well, not really, they just want behead each other. But the underlying message that mortality is a prize is pretty neat. Of course only one can have it and nobody else, lol. Or do I not know the lore enough?

>>214039407 (OP)
The franchise isn't clear about it. Sometimes in the movies, made-for-tv movies, and tv series the prize is what you wrote. Other times the prize is the accumulated knowledge and power of all the previous immortals making the last immortal a god among men.

The first season finale of Highlander when Duncan had to face off against the ancient immortal named Grayson who was once the protege of another ancient immortal named Darius who had retired to become to the life of a monk after he had taken the head of an immortal holy man who was presumably the oldest immortal alive at the time dating back to stone age. Darius was a warlord on the verge of conquering Europe and the quickening changed him. Grayson was his lieutenant at the time and never forgave Darius for betraying their shared dream of conquering Europe. So Grayson wanted to kill Darius but couldn't because Darius rarely left holy ground and so to make him suffer Grayson turned his attention to people Darius was close to. Duncan kept interfering so the fought. Grayson was favored to win since he had accumulated more quickenings and lived thousands of years longer than Duncan. Duncan came to terms with his likely death but managed to achieve a miraculous victory in the final moment.

>>214039463
You need to be real woman to be able to experience that.

Why didn't Sean Connery and Connor MacLeod wanna kill eachother and became friends instead?

>>214039989
Based. There can be only one. My dad and I used to say it to each other all the time while having imaginary sword fights.

>>214039517
>morrel

>>214040122
AYE
THE MORREL MACLOOD
FUCK

>>214040044
Because it's lonely being immortal and it's good to have a brother.

>>214039633
>>214039677
>>214040044
>>214040122
What does it mean?

>>214040091
I might get it as an eptitaph "There can be only one". An inscription on my tombstone.

>>214040044
Freshly made immortals aren't worth killing. They need to age like fine wine to make the quickening worthwhile to older immortals. Also, how else better to deal with the loneliness of eternal life when all your family and loved ones die and you are unable to have children than to befriend fellow immortals knowing someday you might kill each other.

Immortals experience a first death like normal people before they become immortal. They then stay that same age for as long as they live. In the tv show there was one immortal who was a kid and no match for other immortals so the kid had to get them to put their guards down to kill them and chop their heads.

>>214040044
It was a temporary alignment of priorities. They would have had a duel eventually.

>>214040044
Because of the kurgan

>>214039407 (OP)
>Mortality is the prize?
They cant have children either until they win

>>214039677
>living forever was a curse
>therefore we have to have this retarded concept
>no other options available
You're even more retarded than the retarded writers who came up with it.

Highlander = stupid fucking story for retarded redditors

I did not hate Richie and Tessa was worst girl.

uh how about it's cool as fuck that these mysterious immortal loners run around having sword fights (mostly) in secret and then banging hot chicks ALL THE TIME

>>214039450
BORN TO BE KINGS
WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE~

>>214040578
Expansion of lore. I think I vaguely remember this.

>>214041182
Oh come one dude, you never had fun? It's cool. It has guys running around with swords and treating it as something solemn. While indirectly saying we should be more appreciative of what we have or are experiencing. It was a show written for a particular crowd and it resonated. And no, I don't have mail-order swords. I make them myself.

>>214039637
>Even as a 12 year old boy when it was airing I didn't think it was cool.
So you were always a low T faggot, got it.

What about immortals being aliens? This franchise is all over the place.

The prize is not mortality... only the one can reproduce and pass on their genes. The rest are timeless deadends.

>>214041464
It's from the end of the first movie.

>>214039637
the show is literally about master swordfighters in a modern urban setting, there has to be a market for that

>mortality is a prize only one can have
>kills them and they die, therefore they had mortality
uh?

>>214041460
HERE WE BELONG

>>214039637
That guy sounds fuckin based

>>214040227
How the fuck does that even work? A human being doesn't reach brain maturity til about 25. A little kid highlander should be functionally retarded. Same thing with that kid vampire in Anne Rice's movies.

>>214042983
They can have finally have children.

>>214043074
>Wow after thousands of years of magnificent experiences, learning everything that is possible is to learn about existence and the universe, i shall finally receive the ultimate reward!-- cumming inside a bitch and having a little Timmy of my own and eventually die as a rotting old man!
Wow, 2deep.

>>214039407 (OP)
I am Connor MacLeod of the clan MacLeod, hon hon hon

>>214043036
The kid was centuries old by the time he appeared in the show. He would put on an at pretending to have just turned immortal and seek out the protection of kind hearted adult immortals but in reality he was a cynical scheming little shit and would chop the heads off of the immortals who took him in and almost did it to Duncan and Richie.

>>214039407 (OP)
They don’t know what the prize is.
They could just lay down and die before they’re compelled to fight, but none of the immortals with a moral compass want to risk an asshole like the Kurgan getting it and potentially dooming humanity. There’s also the theory that the prize is just what the individual immortal wants deep down.

>>214039407 (OP)
"The Prize" is infinite knowledge, this is explained at the end of the first movie

Why does the sun come up, hm? or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of night? Who knows?
What I do know is because you were born autistic , normies will fear you, try to drive you away, like the people of reddit

>>214039407 (OP)
There was some hot bitches on that show.

>>214043194
That's Duncan you poser. Get out of my Duncan thread.

>>214039407 (OP)
The prize wasn't mortality, that's just what the mc chose because he was a cuck queen. The ending would've been very different if the kurgan won.

>>214043359
There's only one highlander anon, and it's not that sears underwear model

>White guys in the 80s fighting with samurai swords and fucking soft core porn bitches
Highlander is basically the most Fedora franchise ever created. It hasn't aged well.

>>214042364
2nd movie has a directors cut that removes all of that bullshit, directors cut is cannon

>>214039637
It's Urban Fantasy you dumb nigger. Lots of people enjoy it.

>>214043397
I hate you

>>214043250
What if the highlander got decapitated as his first death?

>>214041327
Richie was fine until the later seasons when the writers clearly didn't know what to do with him so they killed him off Tessa was alright but Amanda was better and the chick Duncan should've ended up with.

>>214042364
We pretend the second movie doesn't exist.

>>214043466
I still watch the highlander 3 Loreena MckKennitt montage once a year

>>214039637
That dude sounds based and you sound like a faggot

None of the immortals knew what the prize that they were fighting for was, just that it was insanely powerful.
The prize is nebulous, Connor wanted to be human and stop fighting. It's exactly what he got. His "telepathy" he wanted to use he openly admitted to wanting to use it to influence world leaders for peace.
Had Kurgan gotten the Prize, I'm sure his desires would have led to an entirely different Prize. There's no way he wanted peace and to be mortal.
Also, I believe that there are variations of the Gathering.
By that, I mean that there are many immortals, but not all of them are drawn to each Gathering.
Maybe only a few dozen are pulled. And, previous winners are exempt from being drawn to another Gathering. I believe Ramirez was a previous winner and that he was drawn to Connor to forge him into the weapon to destroy Kurgan because Ramirez knew how dangerous Kurgan was and Ramirez's deepest desire was to stop the Kurgan from winning a Prize.
I mean, five years from Connor becoming immortal to Ramirez showing up.
They also never explained how Kurgan knew Connor was an immortal before Connor died the first time either.
Except in the show, where Duncan knew about Richie and later about the silly girl who died in a car accident for the first time. Supposedly proto Immortals "feel" different.

>>214039637
ngmi

>tfw we almost got a Methos spinoff instead of The Raven.

FUCK

>>214043405
>cannon

All of the women immortals would die super fast unless protected by a male one(just like in real life). Also some smart immortals would use their long lives to get insanely rich, and purchase a giant armed security force. Any time an immortal comes near security just cuts their heads off. Immortals are only immune to mortals because they don’t know their weakness. Also using guns to incapacitate your opponent would be near ubiquitous. Also wearing armor like chainmail.

Daily reminder that Elizabeth Gracen (Amanda) fucked Bill Clinton and Joe (Duncan's Watcher) is fat as a house now.

My only hope with the reboot movie is that it makes more people aware of the TV Series.

>>214043377
Shut up. Christopher Lambert is a terrible actor.

Down here you're just another amateur anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CdKeep2huQ&list=RDgVEQRj_WJG4&index=10

>>214043688
The tv show worked with some of those ideas actually, but really at that point there's no difference between this and Vampire Annie Rice's works or True Blood or whatever.

>>214043688
>Also using guns to incapacitate your opponent would be near ubiquitous.

There were a couple of immortals that did this in the tv show but it was considered dishonorubu.

>>214043688
The guns thing is actually a plotline in the show, and is against the rules to involve others in your fights.
>>214043707
You do know that Jim Byrnes actually is missing his legs and is 80 years old, right?
Cardio hasn't exactly been his strong suit since about fifty years ago.

>>214039948
They could've just gotten themselves killed at any time anon. Why would you fight for thousands of years to win a prize that.. lets you die. That's beyond retardation.

If the prize was something like, now you can have a child. At least that would be something. The ability to die is something they always had.

>>214043750
Anon, I was trolling the highlander forums in the 90s before you were even born, back when there were just forums.
And There was only one Highlander then.

>>214043858
Are you trying to pull rank on me by saying you're an old fart? You're not the one bro. Trust me, you're not the one. You might be lonely, but you're not the only. Don't get your old brain confused.

>>214044014
Look man, while you were watching drive and basing your personality on a film character, I was already doing that in 1986

>>214043750
and yet he's cooler than duncan

>>214044082
Going for a beer run.

>>214044240
Godspeed

>>214043748
My hope for the reboot is that it's such a fucking trainwreck that it makes the original look less like a b-movie that just got lucky.

>>214039549
What power do they even get from the other guy? Connor didn't seem exceptionally strong in his movie ,he was just good with a sword.

>>214044257
Thanks. I got just the sixpack now. Have to be somewhat productive today. I'm going to book a train to Switzerland to behead Christopher Lambert. We'll see who the one is then.

>>214044496
It's the weakest part of the writing. It's presented as "Kill 10 men, have the strength of ten men." and "Kill a man who has the strength of ten men, get the strength of ten men." Which keeps piling up until there's only the One. But no effort (budget) was given to distinguish this in any way, and it's only ever used as a DBZ power level wankery.
>Duncan, be warned, the Watchers have recorded you as taking only 400 kills, but Herpderp has confirmed over 900!

>>214043421
And I hate fedora retards like you

>>214044621
The Kurgan didn't seem al that strong, he was just a buff dude. Hell he got knocked out by a bonk to the head in the tower, he should easily have tanked that.

>>214044672
Right, like I said, it's never expressed in any way but verbally. The movie was that way, and the show was even more that way.

>>214042997
FIGHTING TO SURVIVE
IN A WAR WITH THE DARKEST POWER

>>214044700
NO MAN CAN BE MY EQUAL

>>214044700
doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo dodo...

>>214044621
Personally I just interpreted it as the experience being valuable, not that they got a direct boost to the ching-chong realm because they decapitated a rank 4 ding-dong while being a lowly ping-pong.
It lead to things like the kurgan being a tough bastard who could ignore getting impaled or completely ventilated in order to kill his opponent, not him turning into superman.

>>214043649
>The Raven
I liked Elisabeth. Can't same the same about the rest of the show

>>214039407 (OP)
I'm sure I posted it a bunch of times before, I'll post it again: this was the first time where I witnessed someone on the good side die in a tv-show. It was Duncan Macleod's wife. Iirc correctly they had kidnapped her and he couldn't prevent her death. It was quite shocking at the time. This was before HBO and where main characters died. The good guys weren't supposed to die. When she died it had a montage of Duncan reading a book from the library in his living boat while 'Dust In The Wind' from Kansas was playing. I wonder if it would look horribly shitty if I saw it now. Some things are best left to memory.

>>214044717
>Personally I just interpreted it as the experience being valuable
That would be true if it was described as just taking all of their knowledge. But it's
>If I were to take your head right now, I would receive all of your knowledge and strength. That is the Quickening.
It's their experience and their strength. Of course, what you say makes more sense with what is presented, but they verbally describe it in terms of strength and power.

>>214044769
>I wonder if it would look horribly shitty if I saw it now
i rewatched it in the aughts, it looked pretty shit

>>214040192
>eptitaph
We know what an epitaph is, anon.

>>214044769
The show is like Walker Texas Ranger, equal mix of corny and awesome

>>214039567
>He said, while posting on 4chan

>>214045299
It's an inscription on a tombstone. An inscription is where you engrave something. Think of it like carving the initials of yourself and your first love into a tree. That's what an epitaph is. If you want I can draw out a map or give you statistics. Would that be something you want?

>>214044880
>It's their experience and their strength
I mean strength doesn't necessarily have to mean physical ability. Just something they're good at, like how you would describe Stephan Curry's shooting ability as his greatest strength. So they're essentially taking their talent.

>>214043750
Disagree. Despite or perhaps because of his mangled delivery, he has the perfect charisma to be believable as a 300+ year old immortal. Can you imagine a tryhard faggot like Jared Leto being as convincing? I can't think of a single modern male actor who could pull it off.

>>214039463
Is the quickening like cumming but better?

>>214047185
The head isn't as good.

>>214047169
Connor works great in the modern parts, because he is exactly what someone who has long since stopped giving a fuck would act like.
It’s a really underrated part of the movie that both him and the Kurgan have lost motivation, and how they both react to getting the spark back.

>>214047169
His attempt at pretending to be Scottish did always crack me up though.

>>214047223
He had Heather for that.

>>214043842
>Why would you fight for thousands of years to win a prize that.. lets you die. That's beyond retardation.
It is not. Imagine loving a woman, marrying her and she dies and you live on. Repeat ad nauseam. You can never be on the same level as her.
I suppose>>214039989
>>214043517
are closer to the mark. 'The prize' isn't mortality per se.

>>214043250
So was he lucky or absolutely cucked? Not only did he die as a little kid, but his teacher was fucking Amanda, so he got to learn how to be a fucking roach from the best.

>>214043498
HOLY SOVL I forgot about it, it's so fucking good

>>214043750
Monkey paw grants your wish, now Highlander's MC is Pedro Pascal.

>>214041182
>hurf durf le reddit
Why am I not surprised?

>>214047446
Cucked, he was a hundreds of years old man stuck in a child's body.

>>214047348
he's saying they could chop off their own heads or just let the next immortal they see shop it off

>>214043688
female immortals being component fighters makes sense when you realize when you realize they've had centuries and millennia to hone their skills. A female immortal that's avoided decapitation and has fought on battlefields for 1000 years is going to be able to pull off some crazy shit and nigh impossible for an new fresh immortal to kill even if he's a 6"8 man. Her muscle memory and combat experience would allow her to react to explot every mistake her enemy made/

>>214039637
It was about being a cool swordsman that has experienced 200+ years of living. The cool aspect is the journey and using swords to kill each other.

Dubs and I behead everyone in this thread. There can be none.

>>214049706
>>214049706
Sucker. Now you're mine.

>>214043461
>Amanda was better

Yep. Bill Clinton sure thought so. According to her she fucked him while he was governor of Arkansas and she was miss Arkansas. Also her playboy spread was nice

>started watching this show a couple weeks ago
>feel compelled by autism to order a cheap mall ninja tier replica of Duncan's sword
>it came in the mail today
>see this thread
What are the odds

>>214049706
Anon was an effete snob! I took his head and stole his digits before his thread was even archived!

>>214047531
Uninronically might make a great Ramirez

>>214050269
>fights with a spear
>gets his head smashed by opponent
>while they are doing their victory dance, Pedro gets back up with his smashed head and wants to keep fighting

>>214049933
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdyXKJ8NcNI

>>214050269
He would. I loved him in Game of Thrones.

>>214039463
>>214039582
Sometimes, I quicken so hard I rip the skin.

>>214049933
>not getting the sword as a three sword daisho set from a truck stop
Never gonna make it.

>>214039407 (OP)
The TV show was so fuckin good
tuned into this every week as a kid
so many sexy adventures bedding exotic women from every country and time period

it's always vague just what sort of "power" an immortal gets from killing another immortal. like duncan will kill some 3000 year old superdude and get all his power and then next week he's struggling against some truck driver who just got turned into an immortal 5 minutes ago

and thats the way i like it

>>214044769
>Iirc correctly they had kidnapped her and he couldn't prevent her death. It was quite shocking at the time.

Actually, Duncan DID manage to rescue her, but she wound up getting killed by a mugger shortly afterwards. As dumb as the situation was, it did leave a lasting impact on the show.

> I wonder if it would look horribly shitty if I saw it now.
A little, but you have to take things within the context of when they were made and just go with it. Give it a rewatch if you want, and if you don't like it, that's fine. But don't make a decision based on how you MIGHT feel. It's entertainment, not a major commitment.

I found a complete rip of the show a few years ago and I was enjoying it greatly but then around season 3 the files all started having massive audio sync issues in every player and it became unwatchable. even if i tried to correct the audio timing it was nonlinear so it would gradually get worse over time
rip

>Highlander video game
>360/PS3 era
>follow protag through historical eras and modern day
>focus on boss battles with other Immortals
>cancelled
Fuck

>>214053205
It's not about how I might feel. I've got basically acces to a very large chunk of my youth through youtube. I don't need to revisit everything. It kills the mystery of memory.

>>214053150
I get why they went that route, not just for the sake of storytelling but also in-universe there are some skills Duncan must have picked up he would never use due to his morals (like the power of suggestion from the villain in the season 5 premiere), but it was also frustrating how using abilities from past opponents almost never came up. Given the nature of The Game and life in general, there's no way Immortals wouldn't try to stack skills like Megaman. Maybe they'll touch on that with the new movie, who knows.

>>214053273
That's awful, dude. At least it's free on Tubi and Youtube.

>>214053406
That still sounds way too poetic, but you do you.

i hate fake 16:9 cropping so much it's unreal

>>214053826
>oh wow, it's widescreen!
>they just cropped out most of the image and increased the price

>>214053398
Man, is there any franchise as cursed as Highlander? There's so many amazing things you can do with the basic concept, especially a video game, and it constantly gets squandered or shelved.

>>214044714
TAKE ME TO THE FUTURE OF YOUR WORLD!