From: 910252m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dwayne MacKinnon)
Subject: Re: Highlander
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:46:58 GMT

910252m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dwayne MacKinnon) writes:
>Someday I'm going to post what I think should have been done.......

Well, here's what I think should have been done.......

First off, they needed something to turn MacLeod immortal again. That was,
in it's own way, rather well done. Here's the situation: The basic law is that
if there are two or more  Zeistians on Earth, they are immortal. In the movie
two Zeistians come after Macleod, a formerly immortal Zeistian. They are 
immortal, he is not. He kills one of them, and the energy released gives him
back his immortality (and returns him to the age he was as an immortal.)
When he kills the second one, he uses that energy to bring back Ramirez, 
so there are still two Zeistians on Earth......

Now, IMHO, THEY DIDN'T NEED TO GO INTO HIS ORIGIN SO MUCH!!!!!!! Picture
this. They could have done the scene with him and Ramirez bonding. The  
capture, the trial, all that would have been fine. They should never have
used names, though (I mean calling Macleod Macleod, Ramirez Ramirez, etc.)
This should have all been made very hazy, like a dream.

This is how I see it happening : Here we go : A complete Highlander time-
line, done the way I think things should have been done.....

? Macleod (whatever he was named then), and Ramirez captured. Their sentence
- banishment to Earth, by incarnation as human beings, with their memories
completely wiped. There, they will cease ageing the first time they recieve
damage that would physically kill a normal human being (this is to explain
the age difference between Ramirez and Macleod.) At this point, a few
Zeistian memories start to poke through; examples: no warring on holy
ground, and knowledge of the gathering. The head choping would be found out
by pure chance (i.e. - the first time an immortal chopped off another    
immortals head.) One final point - the banishment scrambles them through
time. (the reason ramirez "pops up" first."

4000 B.C. - Ramirez pops up.

1400's Macleod arrives (please bear with me on the dates. I haven't seen the
movie in a while.)

Then Ramirez finds Macleod, and tells him what he knows.... i.e., the Gather-
ing. The gathering is due to another side-effect of being a Zeistian on 
Earth, and the fact that there is a vague remebrance of recieving a 
tremendous gift if you are the last immortal (there can be onlu one!!).

Then, the Gathering, and Macleod recieves the gift. While he gets it, he
gains a few more of his Zeistian memories, including the fact that he could
go "home." But, he doesn't remember home. He only *really* remembers his life
on Earth. So, he stays with the woman he loves, and starts to employ the side-
effect of the prize: complete telepathic link-up with every human on Earth.

Part of the memories macleod gains: the knowledge that he and Ramirez are   
linked, and that whatever happened back "home", he was fighting against a
tyrant.
    
After this, everything pretty much goes on like in Highlander II, only with
some of the really BAD stuff cut out.

Anyways, just a few thoughts. I don't pretend to know how to make movies,
or write stories. All I know is that if they put a little more effort into
the script adn a little more attention to continuity, they could have made
a really good movie, instead of the embarassment they put out.

DMK
Acadia university, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.