fuck you, Raven was damn good. I didn't even know about it when it first came out. I discovered it and watched it for the first time a few years ago. It failed because they didn't want to promote it. I think there were some stories about amanda being a ultra super mega bitch. I wouldn't rate it above the main series, but it stacks up well against any other cop show.
If you say so. I just remember it being "cop show cop show cop show" and Amanda being completely unappealing compared to her The Series persona.
I think The Raven was on super late night USA Network (like 1 AM or something) during its initial airing and even most Highlander fans didn't know it existed.
Yeah Amanda's actress was a mega bitch on set. She hated her co-star for no apparent reason and showed up for the first day of filming with short blond hair (she was supposed to have long black hair, hence... "The Raven") and they couldn't really do anything about it. She also claimed that the CIA was keeping tabs on her and thought people on set might be watching her. Anyone who knows their MKUltra might find all of this weirdly familiar, especially the suddenly showing up with short blonde hair.
Oh yeah, also, apparently Bill Clinton raped her once back when she was Miss America, before she was on Highlander: The Series. She kept it super quiet and a friend of hers went to the press about it and it got no traction. Not sure if true, but it was pretty believable when I read about the time and circumstances, also explains why she thought the government was watching her all the time.
it's been a long time since I've seen end game, but I legit thought the point of that was to show how that kimmie didn't respect the rules. Had they ever shown a consequence for attacking or killing on holy ground? I don't recall one. It was just a rule they all abided by. Except for this guy, whoever he was. Highlander always had a lot of under explained things. Like why were they all orphans? Who's running around shitting out immortals and leaving them on people's doorsteps?
Biggest unexplained thing: How are they actually getting more powerful from winning fights? You behead another immortal and you get his power, but I don't think it's ever totally confirmed what that means, not in the first few movies or even the show.
Early in the show it's like the more immortals you slay, the stronger you are, but does it go by quality or quantity? Like if a noob immortal were to somehow slay Duncan, would they be just as formidable as him afterwards, or is that just one kill so they're still low-level?
Then as the show goes on, it's more like killing someone just gets you their wisdom and knowledge, everything they were and everything they know is conferred to you. So you slay a guy who was a martial arts master, now you know what he knew. Presumably. I don't think they ever really showed how this worked in practice, except for the Dark Quickening where killing really bad guys over and over will cause their evil personas to build up in your mind until you turn evil yourself.
Then Endgame finally tries to explain the "getting their power" stuff by making it like a DBZ power level, where the more kills you have, the more powerful you are. Duncan had (looking it up) 174 kills, which makes sense given that he killed about 75 immortals over the course of the show's 125 episodes or so. Connor had like 262 kills, which makes sense since he was way more of a headhunter than the relatively pacifistic Duncan. Jacob Kell had 665 kills, mainly so that Duncan could be his 666th kill (he was saving Connor for last) and was described as "way out of your league" to Duncan, who is already considered one of the strongest immortals out there.
However, then when Duncan and Connor combined their strength, the result was able to defeat Kell (barely). Which indicates that the power increases aren't incremental by number, but rather more quality over quantity. Defeating a super-strong opponent gives you a huge boost. This also means that once Duncan defeated Kell, he'd basically be the strongest immortal in the world and completely unstoppable. Another reason I like for Endgame to be, well, the end of the series. There's no credible threat to him after that, he's going to live forever and be The Last if such a thing actually happens in show canon.
Then again, Endgame also kinda contradicts itself by treating Kell/Duncan/Connor's kills like a numeric power level, then later in the movie you have powered-up Duncan basically at a power level of 436 from absorbing Connor, and thus able to have a chance against Kell and his 665. Like, Duncan doesn't go from 174 to 175 in power, Connor counts for way more. So I'm guessing quality matters. Maybe quantity only really matters in the sense that you presumably have more quality in there. Then again the show regularly has immortals hunting for n00b immortals to get easy kills, and why would they do that if basically no power was gained?
.................well, point is, none of this is ever really explained or consistent.
Also have a theory that age affects strength, since the older immortals in the show (the ones that are 2000+) are always super strong. Though that might just be because they presumptively had high head counts.
