From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Highlander: Series and third movie
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:16:52 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

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.

>     The time-period of the show: I'd put it in the early 80's, before
>the first movie.  That took place in 1986("I'd like to ask you about a
>six-foot lunatic with a broadsword in 1986, New York" - or somthing
>like that, said by Brenda).  The presence of so many older model cars
>suggests this to me.  I think the reason that Conner is about is be-
>cause Russel Nash is about to inherit the anitique store, but Conner
>has to spend some time away before he can take a new identity, give
>the neighbors time to forget him.

First of all, I think Brenda said 1985.  Minor point.  And, from the
movie, I got the impression that Connor has been using the Nash
identity for a while (maybe 10 years or so, at least).  Of course,
there's nothing to back this up, it was just an impression I got.

>     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.  I'd like to see these three setting themselves up as some
>kind of pagan gods in an old abandoned monastery.  Conner attempts to
>kill all three, but in the process they are buried under the abbey.
>Since they can't die, but can't get out, they go into a kind of coma.
>Then an archeological dig uncovers them, and suddenly there are now
>four Immortals, which causes Conner to lose the Prize and forcing him
>to go through the Quickening again, relearning his powers.

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.  To support
this, look at the scene in the church near the end of Highlander,
after Kurgen kills Castigir.  After Kurgen tells Connor about how
he raped Heather after killing Ramirez, Connor is ready to attack
Kurgen then and there, until Kurgen reminds Connor of the tradition.
Now, why this tradition exists, I can't say, but that's all it is,
a tradition.

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!

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