Highlander: THE SERIES

[Satyrquaze]

Probably, cause I haven't seen any of the series in a long while. Connor and Kell do have a small fight in Endgame, although it's more a psychological match than anything else. Duncan warns Connor that no quickenings could occur because it's holy ground.

Actually, it was my impression that Connor and Kell stepped beyond the cemetery wall, while Duncan and Faith stayed on holy ground and watched.

Kell made a bit of a deal of pointedly sparing Connor's life at that point.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I just re-watched that scene... There's no such dialogue, and they do in fact walk off of holy ground to fight (Duncan stays in the cemetery and is safe as such). On the other hand, there are several versions of this movie so it may be in one of them...

And Kalas' quickening was supposedly "amplified" by the Eiffel Tower's metal structure, thus bouncing all over Paris and frying much of the electronics in range. In fact, it fried quite a bit MORE than that, as stock footage of stuff blowing up from previous episodes was re-used in it, including Macleod's TV back in the loft above the dojo, various lamps and light fixtures in Paris and "Seacouver", and Slan Quince's car from the pilot episode! Oddly enough, Duncan's barge seems to have functioning lights afterwards, despite being only a mile or two down the Seine from the Tower...

Though honestly, I'm wondering how many people Kalas paid off to look the other way so he and Macleod could have it out atop the Tower in the first place. It's not something you can just sneak up.

Mark

 

[rhubarbodendron]

with having to suffer so many quickenings, I think we can safely assume Duncan would keep some kind of emergency power system on the barge.

The Eiffel Tower gets locked up and closed at night. The top platform is out of sight of the public so that it is not a bad choice for a fight. The only disadvantage is that the elevator is switched off as well and the duellants would have to climb all the way up there by the emergency stairwell. Since neither Kalas nor Duncan huffed and puffed, it'd be interesting to see how they'd do in the annual Empire State Building stair race.

The Eiffel Tower Quickening makes you shudder to think of what'd happen if someone took Methos' head in the middle of a densely populated area or if a challenge was issued near a nuclear power plant... (Or was that perhaps what happened at Czernobyl? And could the suspected 'Tungusca Meteor' actually have been a very old Immortal's Quickening? Remember, Silas lived in that area for centuries.)

At any rate a quickening was certainly less obvious before they invented electricity and window panes. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the reasons why in the most recent centuries Methos prefers vanishing over fighting.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Hmm, judging by the lack of new posts it would appear that either everyone is in the Sanctuary or lost their heads.
The latter would mean I am The One, heehee

*leaves thread to have a drink at Joe's*