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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4393351" data-attributes="member: 8863">The Watchers are one of the cooler additions to Highlander from the show; unfortunately the last two movies handled Watchers very poorly.And the flashbacks, at least the way they were done in the TV series, were usually done very well.  I'm guessing the original Highlander handled them the same way.The thing is, the last movie was going to try to revamp the Highlander mythology somewhat, but IMO, it totally whiffed.  The whole idea behind the Source was pretty good, [spoiler]that is the Source appears only once every few thousand years or so. An Immortal has to defeat but not kill the guardian of the Source, and then the Source gives the Immortal the chance to have (a) child(ren).  But if the Immortal kills the guardian, the Immortal is cursed to take the guardian's place until the Source appears again.  In addidion, none of the Immortals really know what the Source is about, so the ones who seek it out often turn on each other.  There's a line in the movie where Duncan says to Methos the whole idea of the prize is a lie, and that was a very interesting idea that was unfortunately undeveloped.[/spoiler]  But instead, most of the movie was filled with a few rather pointless action sequences filled with gratuitous Immortal combat, and a strange plotline about [spoiler]the collapse of civilization[/spoiler] which seemed to do little more than conceal the fact that they had a very small budget and had to film it on the cheap in Lithuania or something. I don't dislike the Source simply because I think it sucked; no I dislike the Source because it had the potential to do so much more, and it failed to do so in the hands of the people who for the most part did an excellent job with the TV series.</blockquote>

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