From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Highlander: Series and third movie
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:44:38 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <15981@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.151652.14111@njitgw.njit.edu> bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler) writes:
>>In article <92281.111530JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET> JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET writes:
>>>     I liked the fact that the Prize was explained as the power of all
>>>the Immortals.  This supports somthing I've always thought about the
>>>movie: the lights and floating when an immortal kills another immortal
>>>is the victor absorbing his opponent's power.  This is why everything
>>>explodes when Conner kills Kurgen: he absorbs the power of every one of
>>>the Immortals that Kurgen has killed.
>
>>Except that in the movie, no one seemed to know what the prize was.
>>Connor only found out AFTER he killed Kurgen and won the prize.  That
>>either means the show occurs after the first movie (which is rather
>>pointless) or someone didn't pay enough attention to the first movie.
>
>Or they knew that the prize would involve the power of all the immortals
>combined, but they didn't know what exactly they would gain from that.

Hard to say.  Ramirez doesn't go into the Prize at all, so it's
rather ambiguous what the Prize is until the end of the movie.

>>>     Finally, a note on the third movie: Someone posted earlier the
>>>possibility that the three immortals in #3 were buried on holy ground,
>>>which explains how they were left out of the "There can be only One"
>>>equation.
>
>>Nope.  There is no mystical connection between holy land and the
>>immortal's powers.  In Highlander, Ramirez tells Connor something
>>like, "You're safe only on holy ground.  It's tradition.  None of
>>us will violate that."  The immortals don't attack each other on
>>holy ground because they WON'T, not because they CAN'T.
>
>>Now, why this tradition exists, I can't say, but that's all it is,
>>a tradition.
>
>Simple way out of that one.  Why did the tradition get started?  How
>about because the immortals couldn't be killed on holy ground?  Something
>mystical exempts the holy ground from the battles of the immortals.  That
>would be a re-interpretation, but not necessarily a contradiction.

Okay, I can correct my quote now.  Ramirez says "None of us will
violate that LAW."  So, as well as being tradition, there's 
something else preventing it.  It still seems that they're physically
able to attack each other on holy ground, but they won't.

>>Odds are, Highlander III is going to turn out to be another Highlander
>>II.  Remember:  Highlander:  There can be (or should've been) only one!
>
>I doubt Christopher Lambert would have done it then.  Apparently the only
>reason he re-upped for another Highlander flick was to repair the damage
>that Highlander 2 did.

Possible.  Does anyone know why he made HL 2, though?

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