Highlander!

[GyLocke]

Well, Clancy Brown is one badass mother****er. If you remember, in series there are a few flashbacks when Kurgan gets mentioned, and it always comes with the "Stay the hell away from him, he's out of your league Duncan" warning.

Also, it was the last fight, For The Prize. If he loses, Humanity is ****ed. I can see how he didn't rush into a fight.

But you're right, Connor didn't seek confrontation like Duncan did, and mortals kind of portrayed like lesser beings, in the movie.
(And Connor let that guy get shot in the duel flashback. Granted he was wasted)

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I kind of look at them as opposite sides to a coin regarding humanity. Connor was broken and angry after Heather died, so he just dragged himself through the ages and developed an envy for mortals' ability to die and be at peace. Duncan embraced mortals more and developed an appreciation for them, so he tries to keep them alive in order to live their fleeting lives to the fullest. I haven't watched the Highlander series in a long time, though (it's next on my list), so I could be misjudging Duncan.

 

[GyLocke]

I remember being pretty pissed at Duncan for some **** he did to mortals, but I can't recall any of it.

I remember him offing a genuinly good Immortal, becouse Richie's *******ness. (Richie cut down an Immortal in his "bad boy" phase, who turned out to be the protage of the guy who once trained Ramirez. He was a nice enough guy, but he wanted to fight Richie - who could blame him. So Duncan killed him. He applied double standards on a lot of occasions, and seemed kind of a hypocrate.)

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I remember that one. Duncan was definitely morally questionable at times. Overall, though, he seemed to care more about mortals than Connor did (aside from the women, since Connor genuinely seemed to love most of his women while Duncan was a notorious womanizer).

 

[Silicon Surfer]

In the series opener, Connor is the one laughing, smiling and cheerfully headhunting. Duncan is the one who is trying to stay out of the game.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's just Connor's personality. He tends to laugh about nothing in particular throughout all of the movies. My guess is that Connor was out of the Game himself (as usual) until Slan Quince did something to draw him back in and make it personal. He even tells Duncan that Quince is his and that Quince has a tendency to destroy everything an immortal cares about before killing the immortal himself. It definitely seemed like a personal vendetta to me.

 

[Silicon Surfer]

When Duncan asks Connor what he has been doing his answer is : "headhunting "

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, meaning he's looking to kill an immortal. So? Doesn't imply anything about why he's looking for said immortal or what context his conflict with said immortal began in.

 

[wiegeabo]

In the series opener, Connor is the one laughing, smiling and cheerfully headhunting. Duncan is the one who is trying to stay out of the game.

From what I remember, he's only happy when he's hanging around with Duncan. Like the time they were sparring, when he could forget about the Game, and just enjoy himself and life, and actually have some fun. Other times, he's his old gloomy self. Especially when he was around Tessa, probably because she reminded him of Heather, and he didn't want Duncan to go through the same thing he did.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, at least Duncan didn't go through the same thing he did. Tessa was nice enough to get murdered before they could spend a whole lifetime together.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hmm, I wonder why it didn't count my previous post...

 

[The Question]

Well, at least Duncan didn't go through the same thing he did. Tessa was nice enough to get murdered before they could spend a whole lifetime together.

Yeah.




I really don't see how that's any better.

 

[GyLocke]

Well, Kurgan did rape Heather, what she kept as a secret for all her very long mortal life, and Connor had to learn about it later, from the laughing rapist himself, centuries later. That's gotta sting.

I say Duncan had an easier time with the death of Tessa. It's like taking off a band aid very quickly. Hurts like a ***** but only for a moments. When you take it off slowly it's a lot more painfull ( like watching the life slowly leaving the love of your love. Watching it for decades.)

 

[TheCorpulent1]

One could argue that Connor got a lifetime of joy and happiness out of Heather that he can always remember as well, though. Duncan's left to wonder what might have been. "Better to have loved and lost," as they say.

 

[WeaponZ2]

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One could argue that Connor got a lifetime of joy and happiness out of Heather that he can always remember as well, though. Duncan's left to wonder what might have been. "Better to have loved and lost," as they say.

<BR><BR>You know you just reminded me of why Highlander is so great. Its so epic in so many ways. Its almost like two movies in one. The past being the first, the present being the second. <BR>Connor and Heather could be a movie in its own, a truly tragic love story.....I want to watch Highlander now.....*puts on queen sound track* Yeah, thats the stuff...</P>
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<P>I durning the hype black out I spent all my time at IMDB debating with ass holes about why Highlander is a good movie.....</P>

 

[Cyclops]

Will Connor have an incomprehensibly bizzare accent in the comics too?

 

[wiegeabo]

Will Connor have an incomprehensibly bizzare accent in the comics too?

In my head he will.

Hey, you travel the world for four hundred years, picking up languages left and right, your accent tends to get a bit sloppy.

 

[The Question]

You know, I'm starting to think Sam Jackson is an immortal. I just saw Snakes on a Plane (which rocked), and he looks exactly like he did in Pulp Fiction.

 

[Cyclops]

He's Sameul L Mother ****ing Jackson! Agin' don't do **** to him! He kicks aging's ass up and down the mother****ing street!

 

[The Question]

The one person in existence to become an immortal because he felt like it.

 

[DBM]

He's Sameul L Mother ****ing Jackson! Agin' don't do **** to him! He kicks aging's ass up and down the mother****ing street!

We need a Samuel Jackson fact generator.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The one person in existence to become an immortal because he felt like it.

He decided it wasn't enough to be a badass mutha****a. He's gonna be a badass mutha****a... FOR ALL TIME!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Will Connor have an incomprehensibly bizzare accent in the comics too?

I tried giving him a Scottish accent in my head when I was reading #0 but two things happened: 1) I kept stumbling when I had to switch back and forth between that and Russian accents for the Kurgan's followers, and 2) he's just not Connor without the bizarre French accent. It'd be like thinking of Ramirez with a Spanish accent. It'd just be wrong.

 

[The Question]

He decided it wasn't enough to be a badass mutha****a. He's gonna be a badass mutha****a... FOR ALL TIME!

Totally. And when he wins the prize (which you know he will), he's so gonna find a way to resurect all the immortals ever and, with them, go and kill a bunch of mutha****in' snakes.

I tried giving him a Scottish accent in my head when I was reading #0 but two things happened: 1) I kept stumbling when I had to switch back and forth between that and Russian accents for the Kurgan's followers, and 2) he's just not Connor without the bizarre French accent. It'd be like thinking of Ramirez with a Spanish accent. It'd just be wrong.

Well, wouldn't he have a middle eastern accent when he's not speaking Spanish? You know, since he's Egyptian?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

No. He'd have a Scottish accent. Period.

Totally. And when he wins the prize (which you know he will), he's so gonna find a way to resurect all the immortals ever and, with them, go and kill a bunch of mutha****in' snakes.

No, he's gonna resurrect Jango Fett and kill him again, 'cause that mutha****a deserves it. Then he's gonna sip some grape soda with Yoda.