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Highlander Reboot/Prequel Anticipation Thread

I never knew that either. While I loved the character's few appearances on Highlander, I never warmed up to the series.
 
Didn’t much care for her in the show, so I gave a Raven a pass. After the series, I was burnt out on the concept.

What I want to know is what the reboot does differently. I do expect better acting. But how else can they make it better?
 
bdub76 said:
Didn’t much care for her in the show, so I gave a Raven a pass. After the series, I was burnt out on the concept.

What I want to know is what the reboot does differently. I do expect better acting. But how else can they make it better?
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Did you like One Tree Hill?

Did you live and die for the Hill?

Oh...

Miss America 1982.

I guess that that never really meant much?

One of the most striking things about Gracen's character in the spinoff was her short-cropped, platinum blonde hair, or as she refers to it, her "cotton-swab head." "I've had my hair that way off and on throughout my career out here. I just have always changed my hair color, especially when I want a drastic change. I was going through a lot of personal things at the time, right before Highlander: The Raven happened and I cut it off. So they sort of had to work around it, which is great for wigs. You can plop anything on top of no hair. But it was a mutual sort of thing. I think some of the producers hated it, and some of them liked it and some people in Paris loved it and some didn't, like everything you do in this business. I thought it made sense. Amanda had gone through a lot of changes in her life, and she gets bored very easily. It seemed very contemporary of her to do. One year I came into Highlander and I had my nose pierced and my belly button pierced, and the producers were like, 'Can you take that out of your nose?' I said, 'No, no, no, this is perfect for Amanda. Besides, if I take it out, it'll grow in' and came up with all these excuses. Amanda could do this; she would do whatever she wants to. I am Amanda anyway."
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So it was totally a "Felicity" thing.
 
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I was bummed when Richie lost his head. Born immortal, and didn't even make it into his thirties. Talk about rolling a natch one!
 
Jedi Marso said:
I was bummed when Richie lost his head. Born immortal, and didn't even make it into his thirties. Talk about rolling a natch one!
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Which is pretty common for Immortals if I remember correctly. More likely the newbie gets found and decapitated before he even knows what he is than he gets found by someone like Duncan who trains and protects him.
 
wayoung said:
Which is pretty common for Immortals if I remember correctly. More likely the newbie gets found and decapitated before he even knows what he is than he gets found by someone like Duncan who trains and protects him.
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Bang up job Duncan did too ha
 
wayoung said:
Finally got his revenge for Richie killing his buddy and then banging the buddies wife
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Always thought Duncan washing his hands of Richie, for a time anyway, was harsh especially as he was new and also it wasn't totally clear cut of he was wrong for defending the girl involved.

Sure the reality must be Stan Kirsch had something else to do during season 2
 
SithHappens said:
Always thought Duncan washing his hands of Richie, for a time anyway, was harsh especially as he was new and also it wasn't totally clear cut of he was wrong for defending the girl involved.

Sure the reality must be Stan Kirsch had something else to do during season 2
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Well no way Richie should have been able to kill the dude to begin with. He'd been around for what, 100 years vs baby Richie? The best mortal swordsman in 18th century Europe was shit compared to an average immortal.
 
bdub76 said:
Didn’t much care for her in the show, so I gave a Raven a pass. After the series, I was burnt out on the concept.

What I want to know is what the reboot does differently. I do expect better acting. But how else can they make it better?
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In terms of some of the TV series' "problems"...
1. Don't give them magic sword pockets.
2. Have the Watchers be part of the lore from day one, and have the Watchers clean up after duels so that there aren't dozens of headless people all over the place. (Headless people aren't a problem if you use that as part of the storytelling, but the TV show mostly ignored it.)
 
Tosk said:
In terms of some of the TV series' "problems"...
1. Don't give them magic sword pockets.
2. Have the Watchers be part of the lore from day one, and have the Watchers clean up after duels so that there aren't dozens of headless people all over the place. (Headless people aren't a problem if you use that as part of the storytelling, but the TV show mostly ignored it.)
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I liked Joe and I think the show made good use of the watchers, but I don't really like them in the lore. The show they made sense since like 1% of the worlds population seemed to be immortal. I preferred the movies where they seemed incredibly rare, to the point Rameriz travelled from Egypt and The Kurgen travelled from Russia for MacLeod.

I think they would work the bodies into the movie, the investigation was a major focus of the first film. Immortals not being so ubiquitous would also solve the "dozens of bodies" problem.

I suspect magic sword pockets are here to stay
 
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