Highlander

The "lore" is flimsy at best and outright unexplored and recklessly expanded upon on average. In spite of that there some really, really cool ideas introduced like keeping immortals hidden and in a permanent state of coma so that no immortal could actually win "the prize". That was gnarly.

Completely unrelated but I want a Forever Knight reboot that isn't made for a modern audience and instead made for an audience in general.

TBT-TheBigToe said:

Completely unrelated but I want a Forever Knight reboot that isn't made for a modern audience and instead made for an audience in general.

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Wow I totally forgot about Forever Knight… that’ll be my next rewatch since I just finished Andromeda and The Dead Zone.

Also completely unrelated I put the old Dinosaurs show on for the kids to laugh at and my wife walked in and had an epiphany that she’d forgotten about that show. It was pretty funny watching her go from “WTF are you watching?” to “OMG OMG this show!”She’s 38 so was young when it aired.

hahaha Brimstone. Lori fucking Petty and Teri Polo. Holy shit forgot about that too.

Siliconemelons said:

Dinosaurs is awesome, sad ending.

NOT THE MAMA!

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In the first episode baby picks up a remote and bonks dad on the nose. My 2 year old picked up the Roku remote and looked at me. I was like “not gonna happen, buddy…”

Goatface said:

The energy release is subject to how the immortal was killed. Iirc, there was an immortal blown up and the energy became part of the explosion.

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I read the novelization back in the days when the OG film came out. It was implied that unless another immortal beheaded them, an immortal was unkillable and would return, albiet potentially fucked up by the experience. This contradicts the show with the shit the Watchers were doing at times, but it would be better for story reasons. Essentially whatever caused the immortals to manifest (novelization implies each civilization had one avatar who manifested to rep them or something like that) set specific rules about what one could or could not do in the duels. Show threw most of that out as did the later movies, to a large degree. IIRC the novelization mentioned a Jap immortal who was vaporized at Nagasaki who came back to life and was completely batshit insane after and there was some sort of horrific fate for anyone who broke the holy ground rule, but I can't remember. Wish I had kept that book, it was pretty good and drawn from the script creator's basic ideas for lore.