Saturday Nights used to be so good.

[kaitykaity]

For a while there was Renegade and Highlander -- two
gorgeous guys with long hair who went shirtless a lot and
used martial arts to kick serious bootie.

Then there was Pretender and Profiler -- Jarod pretending
to be "anyone he wanted to be" and Sam battling a freakazoid
serial killer using ESP.

Now there's nothing.

:grr:

[Metatron]

1. When I was a kid

it was The Love Boat and Fantasy Island!

[kaitykaity]

2. Oh, yeah, I was a kid then too.

We never watched on with out the other.
It was a tradition.

I just didn't remember it was Saturday
night.

[Metatron]

3. Did you ever get to see the new Fantasy Island from a few

years back? I was apparently one of the few people who enjoyed it :) It still reruns on cable occasionally.

[kaitykaity]

4. I must have missed it.

I don't remember it.

I'm cable-less. I watch too much TV as it is, and I live
in the middle of town (Portland) so I get all the broadcast
stations pretty clearly without it (cable).

I may take the plunge someday, but then I'd just get mad
watching CNN or MSNBC. I depend on DU to tell me what those
idiots are saying.

:hi:

[lazarus]

5. I loved Pretender!

What a great show that was.

Did they get a chance to bring it to a conclusion, or was it just cancelled unceremoniously?

Remind me one day to tell you the direction they should have taken the Highlander mythos.

[kaitykaity]

6. They did two movies of the week on TNT that "sort of"

brought it to a conclusion.

He found is father I believe at the end of the
last season and uncovered the cloning plot and found
the younger version of himself that the center was
creating.

They always teased us with a romance between Jarod and
Parker, and the movies of the week did the same. And
there was a brother found, played by Tyler Christopher.
It was all very confusing.


Remind you about Highlander when exactly? When to
start a new thread and tell me about it?

[lazarus]

7. Aw, heck

Here it is:

They needed a way to retcon the conclusion of the Highlander film with the series. How could there be a bunch of immortals if the Gathering had occurred?

Easy answer: There are Gatherings every few centuries, when the number of Immortals reaches a certain number that nobody knows.

Immortals at random from across the millenia are impelled to meet and fight, basically reducing their numbers. The Prize would then be the ability to father immortals (that's how they keep popping up all over the place). If it's a good immortal who wins, such as MacLeod, then things shift to the good side for a time. Had Kurgan won, more and more of the "evil" immortals would be born.

I also felt that Mythos should have been acknowledged the Ur-Father of all immortals, the One who will never be called to a Gathering.

They could have gotten really creative with this stuff, but it just never seemed to get going because they never dealt with the conclusion of the first film satisfactorily.

[kaitykaity]

8. The series was extended with Amanda taking over the

lead in "Raven" but I think that lasted one year.

She was a fantastic good "bad girl" on the series,
but she wasn't MacLeod and it just didn't have the
same oomph.

Mythos was such a fantastic character. The oldest
of the old. Him being the Ur-Father would make sense to
me.

With most of these series' they start out episodic, but
then a larger story arc starts to develop. When that
bigger story arc is done, usually the series is done
because all of the big issues have been resolved.

And if the series continues on, that's when it jumps the
shark and starts retelling things, or tries to pull the
Amanda trick. It's all been done.

[lazarus]

9. Yup

With the recurring Gathering idea, they could have kept the series going for a long, long time. Although I do think they'd have had a problem replacing MacLeod.

I just like my idea is all. :P

[kaitykaity]

10. Is there a book series with this?

Like with the Star Wars? To sort of fill out the
mythology?

I like your idea too, Laz.

;)

[lazarus]

11. probably

and it probably bites, I haven't checked it. Series fiction like that is very, very hit or miss, mostly miss.

And thank you.