Highlander plothole

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Highlander plothole

In the Highlander TV series Duncan never learned how to read until age 50. This is a plothole because how come he couldn't automatically read after decapitating a literate Immortal? The wiki is pretty clear that if you assimilate somebody's Quickening you gain all of their knowledge, all of their life experiences and all of their strength. Wouldn't that include assimilating their literacy during the Quickening? wtf? Why bother learning to read when you can just steal the knowledge with your sword? the show contradicts itself

Also out of curiosity, who does Anon Babble consider the top 10 strongest Immortals? And who do you consider the top 10 weakest Immortals? I instinctually assume Sean Connery is probably the strongest, the Kurgan merely had lady luck on his side when he slays him. Xavier Saint Cloud might be the strongest black Immortal if we're going to give them their own category and has the best trashtalking game as well:

"Are you a Christian? Or do you paint your face and bay at the moon like an animal?"

"What...? I..I do not understand what you ask me..."

"I'm just curious which God I'll be sending you to."

Who said the immortals he killed were literate?

The wiki is pretty clear that if you assimilate somebody's Quickening you gain all of their knowledge, all of their life experiences and all of their strength.

The show wasn't very consistent with this. At one point, Duncan suspects an evil immortal called Gerard Kragen of killing his friend Alec Hill, and takes his head. But then after taking Kragen's Quickening, he still didn't know that Kragen hadn't actually killed Alec.

Top 10 Strongest

Duncan, Connor, Kurgan, Kronos, Kalas, Methos, Ramirez, Otavio Consone, Grayson, Haresh Clay.

(I didn't include the characters from the crappy movie sequels, like Jacob Kell.)

10 Weakest

Danny Cimoli, Lucas Kagan, Johnny Kelly, Devon Marek, Bryce Korland, Alfred Cahill, Kristin Gilles, Andrew Ballin, Andrew Cord, Tyler King. (Various jobbers from the TV show, essentially.)

I don't remember the show that well but I don't think run ins with other immortals is really that common on a "normal" timeline. I'd think maybe 1 or 2 in a human lifespan. At least not ones that end in fights to the death. I think the show for the sake of being a show kind of fucks this up so you have a new adventure every week. OR to keep it canon-ish it's what Ramirez was talking about when he said all immortals would be called to a far off land to fight for the prize. And Duncan and other immortals are just living in the "end times" so conflicts are more frequent. But to your point, it's entirely possible Duncan never encountered another immortal that he was inclined to fight with before he turned 50.

and all of their strength

That sounds ridiculous, if you kill a bunch you would have legs so strong you could jump over buildings. Anyone who killed a bunch would also not use a sword but simply a steel rod that just plows through everything

Phonetards are such retards.

BTFO by LOGIC

cry irrelevant garbage

doesn't deny it

Grim.

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Did anyone ever just hit him with a 50 cal and then try to get his head while he’s healing, his regen wasn’t that great.

That's right, faggot monkeyboy. Dance.

Yes, I vaguely recall a subplot of one of the show's seasons being about a secret cabal of normies hunting down immortals. They'd literally just shoot them and chop off the head.

Now that babby got his pacifier, back to me being right; gaining the physical strength of multiple men would be utterly ridiculous. Also can they roid?

I just recently finished watching this all the way through for the first time and I have never seen a show with such a steep drop off in quality in its final season. The Raven was a step up honestly.

The show was pretty vague on it but I got the impression that the strength/skill increase was incremental. You're not gaining ALL their strength/skills but you get a stat increase in that particular area. Kinda like a video game when you level up.

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Tranny punctuation for a tranny poster.

Reading is for fags. For example I didn’t read any of your post because I’m not a fag and I’m also illiterate. In universe explanation is that they were all illiterate dumbasses, but definitely not fags. Fag.

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I love the idea of Highlander and the first three films and I hate it how they didn't know what to do with the series and its continuity.

the series was tommy wiseau-tier garbage, there was even a Denny in the mix

happens all the damn time sadly. very dishonorable but not technically forbidden

So why didn't they ever make a Highlander RPG? A big theme of the franchise is "leveling up" by scoring Quickenings

The show is in its own continuity. I agree that Richie was basically just Scrappy Doo but he wasn't in most of the good seasons and they had the decency to kill him off at least.

They did. It got cancelled sadly.

"RICHIE, KILLING FOR REVENGE IS BAD"

Duncan literally kills a biker Immortal for killing his Indian waifu and her son

I hate that Richie didn't call him out for that.

Maybe it's like the crystals in FFT

Richie was basically just Scrappy Doo

Duncan needed a squire character to follow him around in order to highlight attention to how much more powerful Duncan is compared to a baby Immortal

What genius decided to cancel this potential masterpiece? Why?

I have nothing to back it up but my gut tells me it was the Jews

Good point.

It was gonna essentially be Devil May Cry with a health regeneration mechanic. Would have been kino. It was also nice to have a MacLeod that wasn't a katana user.

Fucking Highlanders acting all high and mighty when in reality they're completely shameless and inconsistent

We were also going to get an MMO called The Gathering. Looked pretty interesting.

youtube.com/watch?v=M9C5rLrss08&t=209s

Yeah the show was dumb as hell. Every episode was the same retarded bullshit

Duncan goes hiking and an immortal randomly shows up

Duncan goes to the DMV to pay parking tickets and an immortal randomly shows up

Duncan goes to the opera and an immortal randomly show up

Something dumb happens to Tessa and an immortal randomly shows up

Something dumb happens to Richie and an immortal randomly shows up

Duncan is running his antique shop and an immortal randomly shows up

Duncan goes to the museum and an immortal randomly shows up

I really wanted to like this but it's just a bad show, even by the era's episodic standards. I think it'd be easier to swallow if they put in some more effort to the setup. Either throw in some lined about how immortals are much more ubiquitous or have Duncan's antique shop work be the main vehicle for meeting other immortals instead of him tripping over an immortal every time he goes grocery shopping. Or make immortals only one aspect of a larger supernatural world and have him deal with immortals only a couple of times per season. Just make an effort, any kind of effort.
I'd be down for a remake of this series by an actually decent team, but it sucks ass

Sounds like you didn't watch past the First Season. About halfway through Season 2 they start developing an overarching plot and you get new factions like The Watchers and more supernatural elements like you're talking about. They also drop the antique shop shtick that was cribbed from the movies.

This. There were also episodes where Duncan didn't fight Immortals. There's a season one episode where Duncan straight up murders a gang of bank robbers. There was also a re-occurring villian who was just a normie.

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Toledo Salamanca, fucking immediately. I hate that I so easily remember dumb shit like that.

I wish we had gotten more detail about the "rules" of The Game. Though it was pretty cool to learn that Pompeii was caused by two immortals fighting on holy ground

I meant Mt. Vesuvius erupting. Fuck, you know what I meant.

Wouldn't the victor still survive the volcanic explosion? For that matter weren't there many Japanese Immortals who got nuked yet survived in 1945? Is this ever brought up?

Duncan seemed to judge other immortals more harshly than mortals. He spares the guy who killed Tessa because that dude was a mortal who'd cleaned up his act and was so drugged out he didn't remember killing her. He kills the biker immortal because if you haven't cleaned up your act after a few-hundred years, you're probably not going to.

If the explosions blew their heads off, they wouldn't survive.

sanctuary

watchers

hunters

it's all bad

If your head is removed from your shoulders in any way you're dead. Doesn't matter if you're designated in an explosion.

Yeah on my most recent attempt I dropped it in early season 2 or maybe a bit after Tessa died. I have some vague memories from watching later seasons from back when it was originally airing and I do remember watchers and the methos guy. But hand to your heart can you say this show actually has an overarching plot and is a good quality show? I'm trusting you to be honest with me and yourself because i can't argue about the later seasons

Essentially they would become Saitama, just punching heads off.

Not that Anon, but I would definitely at least give it a try. The show develops much more overarching plots in S3 and stuff, and improves a lot quality-wise. Even people who like the show (like me) will admit that the first two seasons are shaky and S6 is crap.

on my most recent attempt I dropped it in early season 2 or maybe a bit after Tessa died

You stopped watching it right before it starts getting really good. Season 2 still has some rough patches but if you power through it Seasons 3-5 are great with each one better than the last. There are season long villains/plot lines and things really start firing on all cylinders. There are still "Immortal of the Week" episodes but they usually tie into the main plot somehow.

Season 6 kinda sucks though sadly but it's really short.

Be a straight male Immortal

Decapitate a straight female Immortal

Consume her Quickening

Suddenly inherit 2,000+ years of her fond romantic memories of taking hundreds of cocks

Become transgender

Feel angry and confused

Decapitate yourself

Why does this never happen? All Immortals would eventually regress into suicidal perverts after too many decapitations. if they reboot the series they should retcon it so women can't be Immortal to prevent this plot hole from coming into play

Season 1 is a bit rough and season 6 wastes too many episodes trying out potential leads for the planned spinoff. Things gets a lot better once Tessa is gone and Ritchie starts appearing way less. Methos was a fantastic addition to the series and probably the best character. Seasons 3,4,and 5 are excellent and worth getting to.

fuck it, might as well give it a final shot. ain't no way I'm touching the first season again but maybe I'll start somewhere in s2 and try to power through it

It's good anon. My wife and I finished watching it recently and she doesn't even like fantasy shit and even she enjoyed it.

I think it would drive someone like Duncan or Connor insane to have thousands of years of memories in your head. I think the "memory" thing is probably just a handwavy way of explaining how immortals gain new skillsets.

Go to bed Cavill

Most women find Adrian Paul really attractive so they'll definitely tolerate it because of him.

She's a Methos gal actually.

Fan theories may or may not hint that the real Gathering was actually the friends we made along the way

How the fuck you can remember this ? I watched this TV show when I was a kid and I loved it. But honestly I don't remember anything. I just have a few flashes of memory. It's like with Buffy. I loved the show when I was little. I don't remember anything about it now.

The biggest plot hole is why an immortal who stays forever young and peak performance and train in some examples for 3000 years does not achieve some inhuman control over his body. The biggest problem mastering a sword is in 20 years you get some experience but you get older and way slower, this is not the case with someone who is immortal. This people must have some insane accuracy and control over their bodies. Imagine being able to juggle steel ball bearings with only with the tip of your sword. Impossible for a normal human but expected for someone who trained with a sword for 100+ years. They should be some insane level of sword play. The limiting factor will be the senses and the human body limitations. A sword duel with immortals who are both 1000+ years old should look like a F1 race where the top speed of the cars limited to 100 km/h and the drivers can go into every corner and straight with full speed, the outcome of the fight will be decided by provoked on unprovoked error of one of them. In the immortals case it will be constant crazy complicated attacks, feints and parries where they will make a prequels jedi look like he picked a sword yesterday. Sadly the budged for the 90s tv shows was way to limited for something like this.

Seems like she might have an age gap fetish or something