Highlander Reboot/Prequel Anticipation Thread
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If memory serves, I think that their mission, or mandate, was merely to observe and record, not interfere with the affairs of immortals. They were basically historians who maintained detailed biographies of the immortals (Dawson was assigned to Duncan). Methos passed himself off as a mortal so that he could join the Watchers and chronicle himself.
I never got into the tv show but am pleased to see that this tends to suggest that the film won’t be a simple remake of the original. Hopefully they borrow some good ideas from across the mythos.
Methos was definitely one of my favorite characters in the franchise.If memory serves, I think that their mission, or mandate, was merely to observe and record, not interfere with the affairs of immortals. They were basically historians who maintained detailed biographies of the immortals (Dawson was assigned to Duncan). Methos passed himself off as a mortal so that he could join the Watchers and chronicle himself.
Gotta love Peter Wingfield.
Wingfield was great. Both my wife and I enjoyed seeing Methos more than MacLeod at times. Duncan was too damned moody, most of the time, but not as much of a hothead as Connor could be.
My abiding Methos memory was the episode where he explained he could be more brutal fighting a woman because he'd been born long before chivalry was a thing!Was he Roman or am I remembering that wrong? It's been a very long time since I saw the show.
Methos existed LONG before the Roman Empire was even formed.
He was literally born before 4000 BC.
Methos was supposed to be the oldest immortal.
I liked how the introduction of the watchers produced a nod to the original film, in one of their first discussions Joe tells Duncan that Connor did the world a favour killing the Kurgan.
The bad guys version of the watchers was an offshoot called the hunters.
One turns up to try and kill Nefertiti before Duncan kills her anyway.
One turns up to try and kill Nefertiti before Duncan kills her anyway.
I think the big trick the film has to pull is having an epic climactic fight without it being the climactic fight, if that makes sense!
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It does make sense, because if this is to be the start of a new movie series, then that necessitates that Connor can't be the last one standing (at least yet, anyway).
And I would love to see a film version of Methos show up down the road, as either an adversary or an ally.
It does make sense, because if this is to be the start of a new movie series, then that necessitates that Connor can't be the last one standing (at least yet, anyway).
And I would love to see a film version of Methos show up down the road, as either an adversary or an ally.
I wonder if in the new movie there will be pre immortals or immortals still being born?
Something I always wondered in the series, what if Duncan had become the 'Only one' only for a new immortal to be born the next day.
Something I always wondered in the series, what if Duncan had become the 'Only one' only for a new immortal to be born the next day.
There actually was a Roman thing before Methos was introduced and I think at the time it involved the oldest immortals on the show.
Darius was a Visigoth (altho he did spend time in Rome) and born in the 1st century AD. He mentored an immortal who was born a few hundred years later who was a Roman centurion named Claudinius (I think his Roman name was) who then took the name Grayson when he joined Darius.
Darius renounced violence and lived as a monk never leaving holy ground. Grayson continued his conquering ways and moved on to supplying weapons to conflicts to keep wars ongoing. Duncan ends up fighting and killing Grayson and was the oldest immortal Duncan had killed at that time.
