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Was this series ever finished?

posted 17 years ago by ikfame
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With the news of the entire series coming on dvd there was a snippet of info saying this show had 40 episodes.

Did they ever conclude the show in those 40 episodes or was it just ended in the middle of the storyline?

[–] tootcb 16 years ago

It was never finished.

You're gonna need a bigger thread.

[–] inferning_flames 16 years ago

It is a shame that they had discontinued the series after 40 episodes and not finish completely. If I had anyway of telling the creator to continue the remaining missing episodes, I would.

[–] ImJoelRed 16 years ago

I think Highlander: The Adventure Begins concluded this...But to tell you the truth I never saw either of them...

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[–] conhager9301 12 years ago

No, Highlander: The Adventure Begins was just a feature-length re-edit of 4 episodes from the first season.

WHY do people post answers to questions they have NO clue about? If you never saw it, WTF are you doing referring to it to incorrectly answer a question?

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[–] ixtrm-sol 10 years ago

it's like everything's turning into yahooanswers, and it's not like you get points for replying with nonsensical 'i don't know, but i'll put down something anyway' on the imdb boards

back to topic, like most episodic animated shows, this doesn't have a definite conclusion, but if you used wikipedia's episode guide and watch Countdown as last episode, Kortan's base blew up with him in it, so you can assume he died or buried there forever as result.

[–] Alfabeta 8 years ago

He gets blown up AT LEAST three times during the course of the show (and even gets swallowed by lava in one episode), so no, he's definitely not dead. The funny thing is that unlike live action shows, you could easily just continue the show today. Just cast voice actors with similar sounding voices.

[–] MrEdnablackadder 7 years ago

The funny thing is that unlike live action shows, you could easily just continue the show today. Just cast voice actors with similar sounding voices.

You could actually recast all original actors except for Wayne Robson (Asklepios) who died a few years ago, and Clyde's voice actress, since I assume she may sound very different today. The acting was mostly good, so I would definitely like the original cast if they were ever to resume the show or end the storyline with a special movie. I would just recast Quentin: his voice actor wasn't very good.

[–] Alfabeta 8 years ago

The storyline itself is not exactly complex. Ramirez takes Quentin MacLeod all over the continent to see various Immortals who possess various types of knowledge that could help him defeat the evil Immortal tyrant Kortan and his slaver forces. This allows for a cyclical plot that never evolves, since Quentin never uses the knowledge he gains from them. So basically, you're waiting for Ramirez to declare at some point that they've visited everyone and that we can now finally get that final duel between the protagonist and the villain that was prophesied in episode one. Well, that never happens. They visit various Immortals, learn stuff, have other side-adventures and the show ends before they get to see everyone. It simply stops.

[–] MrEdnablackadder 7 years ago

This allows for a cyclical plot that never evolves, since Quentin never uses the knowledge he gains from them.

Well, he sometimes uses the knowledge he's gained to solve some issues that are related to the specific episode: but, after that, he seems to make little use of it. He has to defeat Kortan before he can use it to rebuild the world as much as possible and teach things to the free people. In the flashbacks involving the Immortals taking the oath, there seems to be about 15-20 on the hill. By that math, I believe Quentin might have already met most of them by the end of the series. However, it doesn't look like his fighting skill has improved so considerably by then: he still can't hold a candle to Kortan in "Countdown".

In a way, I think that the lack of a proper ending fits the tome of the show: the world it depicts is generally very bleak with hope hanging by a very thin thread.