I'm ready for a Highlander Reboot!

[DarkSuperman]

Yeah, I've seen it, I liked it a lot.

 

[GyLocke]

I barely post here, but when I see a Highlander thread, I must. I was thinking a lot about a Highlander reboot for TV.

The one thing the old TV series missed was the urgency of the movies. While they mentioned the gathering in the first ep, they quickly abandoned it.

If they do a reboot for television, I want the gathering to be an important plot point. IT begins in the pilot - as a big deal, explaining why more and more immortals are arriving to America every day. Gives urgency to the story.

Fractions are forming, fights break out, and more and more immortals are eliminated the tension grows higher.

Some old and extremely powerful immortals with giant headcounts experience some low level superpowers like precognition, absolute memory, hypno-voice, etc. (nothing to flashy)

Only one MacLeod (a mix of Connor and Duncan), with the scary ass shape of the Kurgan lurking behind in the shadows, following him around. (A personal threat - an archenemy.) He tries to stop the bloodshed by finding out the origins of immortality, hunting the legendary Methos.

With the gathering here the mysterious cabal of Watchers changes it's passive ways to contain the immortal threat, before one of them grows too powerful.

Hell, they can use Richy if they want to as the last immortal to born, the sign of the start of the gathering or something - sentimental value to MacLeod.

They could do such amazing things if they gave the story a frame - four seasons, many immortals enter, only one leaves at the last episode.

Thoughts?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh. I was fine with the lack of urgency. Like I said before, the Prize works best for me as some far-off reward that no one will ever actually attain in the time frame a show would follow.

I do like the idea of ancient immortals starting to gain really low-level powers like dreams of the future or something. As long as they're 1) not easily attained, 2) not too extreme, and 3) not physical in nature, I don't mind powers too much.

 

[November Rain]

low level powers should be attributed to a 'Head Count' that allows you to qualify.

I also like the idea of being able to summon a project of those one has killed for council or just to taunt other immortals who can also see them (but not normal humans).

there should be also a larger variation of weapons than just swords to expand the arsenal, Maybe not having decapitation as the only way to achieve death

Also the Internal life aspect shouldn't be there, each death should give one like 5/10 years of agelessness to force them to continue killing or they shall age (not dying) so they become easily reached. Also the gathering brings those together who have not killed after this time, so the point of the main bad guys is to find out where each individual gathering is and to finish them all off.

Maybe not even have the main character as a Highlander but an official whose job it is to make sure the combats are sacred which means they are never allowed to actually kill an immortal, have one accidentally pass and have him bestowed with these unnatural abilities and hunted down by other watchers and immortals alike.

 

[DarkSuperman]

I barely post here, but when I see a Highlander thread, I must. I was thinking a lot about a Highlander reboot for TV.

The one thing the old TV series missed was the urgency of the movies. While they mentioned the gathering in the first ep, they quickly abandoned it.

If they do a reboot for television, I want the gathering to be an important plot point. IT begins in the pilot - as a big deal, explaining why more and more immortals are arriving to America every day. Gives urgency to the story.

Fractions are forming, fights break out, and more and more immortals are eliminated the tension grows higher.

Some old and extremely powerful immortals with giant headcounts experience some low level superpowers like precognition, absolute memory, hypno-voice, etc. (nothing to flashy)

Only one MacLeod (a mix of Connor and Duncan), with the scary ass shape of the Kurgan lurking behind in the shadows, following him around. (A personal threat - an archenemy.) He tries to stop the bloodshed by finding out the origins of immortality, hunting the legendary Methos.

With the gathering here the mysterious cabal of Watchers changes it's passive ways to contain the immortal threat, before one of them grows too powerful.

Hell, they can use Richy if they want to as the last immortal to born, the sign of the start of the gathering or something - sentimental value to MacLeod.

They could do such amazing things if they gave the story a frame - four seasons, many immortals enter, only one leaves at the last episode.

Thoughts?

That exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about! As a series it needs an overall purpose and goal to strive for otherwise its just a show about ancient vendettas every week. People getting low level abilities from head counts is precisely the type of coolness factor that should be added to the show. If you keep doing the same thing over and over for 20+ years without evolution or experimentation things become stagnant and predicable. I think older immortals should at least have super strength to further demonstrate their age and status.

Cause if you look at the series there's really nothing to separate a "New" immortal from an "Old" immortal. I love Richie, but he should have died a while back from lack of heads being taken. I just don't see a 22 year old taking some one who is a couple centuries old, no matter how good a teacher Mac was unless he got Uber-Lucky and from that point on was imbued with ALL the strength and power of the immortal he killed, which is never really satisfactorily elaborated on.

I totally love the idea of exceptionally old immortals with huge headcounts developing low level superpowers like precognition, absolute memory, hypno-voice! Add Super Strength in the mix and I'm totally down for the ride in the 21st Century! Also, the idea of a personal threat/archenemy to rival Highlander for The Prize (Which I've always felt was Godhood) is a magnificent Idea!

I seriously doubt that many Highlander fans, besides TheCorpulent would find a whole lot to hate about a new series if they set it up in the way we've both described.


I just had this really cool vision of the Final Episode where The Highlander comes face to face with his archenemy, after about 7 seasons and all his immortal friends are dead and he and his enemy are the last ones, Highlander is losing at first, but then he gets a vision of all his friends from over the years urging him on to fight for The Prize and that through him they all live on. This is the final push for him to claim victory and bring the series to a close where with the powers of a god Highlander ushers the world into a golden age of peace and prosperity.

I Like that ending.

 

[GyLocke]

Also, think about how LOST uses it's flashbacks - and they can't ever flashback to exciting places like the old west, the American civil war, the highlands or the french revolution.

There shouldn't be a "villain of the week" in every episode. I see it play out more as an assemble, where no one is safe, yet if someone falls is a pretty big deal. There could be wonderous, complicated relationships between characters. (Like Methos - hero for some, monster for others)

I also missed the police activity from the series. (Duncan took one head every week, and no one gave a ****. Sure, they were after him for other stuff but never for beheading). in Highlander 1, there's a huge emphasis how this ancient battle messes up the modern world. Maybe we can have a very clever immortal, who - expecting the Gathering - worked up himself on the ladder, and now heads an elite police force to his own ends, covering up for the whole immortal "subculture" and collecting heads.

I've always expected the Watchers to exist because some badass immortal wanted to collect intelligence on his rivals, masquerading as a religious leader, so he can hunt them down (then they've revealed Methos (the freshmaker) in a similar way). I can see a big season final revelation with a new Big Bad.

Oh yeah, I want Big Bads, as well, next to the series long Kurgan threat.

 

[DarkSuperman]

Also, think about how LOST uses it's flashbacks - and they can't ever flashback to exciting places like the old west, the American civil war, the highlands or the french revolution.

There shouldn't be a "villain of the week" in every episode. I see it play out more as an assemble, where no one is safe, yet if someone falls is a pretty big deal. There could be wonderous, complicated relationships between characters. (Like Methos - hero for some, monster for others)

I also missed the police activity from the series. (Duncan took one head every week, and no one gave a ****. Sure, they were after him for other stuff but never for beheading). in Highlander 1, there's a huge emphasis how this ancient battle messes up the modern world. Maybe we can have a very clever immortal, who - expecting the Gathering - worked up himself on the ladder, and now heads an elite police force to his own ends, covering up for the whole immortal "subculture" and collecting heads.

I've always expected the Watchers to exist because some badass immortal wanted to collect intelligence on his rivals, masquerading as a religious leader, so he can hunt them down (then they've revealed Methos (the freshmaker) in a similar way). I can see a big season final revelation with a new Big Bad.

Oh yeah, I want Big Bads, as well, next to the series long Kurgan threat.

All magnificent Ideas! Especially An immortal working in the Police and or Watcher organization. Maybe the Watchers have infiltrated law enforcement and keep stuff like Immortal beheadings from making the news?

And yes it would be nice to have Big Bads, not unlike Buffy. Imagine a new kick ass ancient immortal every season with a cool power and and uber-bad ass agenda. I'm already sold, I want a new Highlander series now!

*Sings Princes of the Universe, loudly!* t: