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May, I didn't write that Connor died in the first film. I typed that every immortal OTHER than Connor gets killed off in the first film. In the film, the "Gathering" is the final battle amosnt the immortals to determine who will win the "Prize". As far as the film went the "Gathering" occured in 1985, Connor was the last immortal and won the "Prize". No more immortals fighting each other, end of story. That didn't leave much room for sequels, so the producers changed various parts of the story, serveral different times, in order to make a few more films and a couple of TV series. In the TV series, the "Gathering" starts in 1985, but is still going on. Connor's fight against the Kurgan is just one of many battles that occuring during the "TIme of the Gathering". Basically, it is a alternave version of the story. If you look carefully, the rules for imortals are different between the film and the series. In the film immortal don't die unless beheaded. In the series they do die, but recover. For example, in the movie, Connor can't drown, but in the series, Duncan and Amada are drowned but "get better". BTW, the immortal Priest's name was Darius. He was supposed to be a major supporting character in the series, but the actor who portrayed the character passed away. I think most of his backstory was reworked into the Methos character.

The anser sort of varies a bit depending on what version of Highlander you are going by: The Original Film and TV series are sort of "alternate" versions. Highlnader 2, 3 and 4 all just complicate and condradict each other and everything else. But... If you go with Gregory Widen's orgianl story, the reason why "there can be only one" was that when only a few immortal remained the "Time of the Gathering " would occur. The remaining immortals would feel an irrestiable urge to travel to a faraway land to battle to the last for "the Prize". This makes the fighting until only one remained something of forced happening (or as other have mentioned pre-detined, or fated). That being said, there seems to be some "flexiblity" involved with "battle to the last" . In parts of the scrip that didn't make it to the final film, there is a scence where an immortal has lost the will to fight/live and just gives up to the Kurgan, and another scene where Kastigar tries to talk Conner into an alliance to kill off the Kurgan. The latter is very interesting as Kastigar even states that with the Kurgan out of the way, the final fight could be put off until some indefinate time. Now, as every immortal other than Connor gets killed off by the end of the first Higherlander film, every sequel has had t condradict this is some way or other.

A shrinking population also means a shrinking marketplace and thus less demand. Less demand = lower demand for larborers. In other words, it would probably all cancel out. For example, if the world's population were cut in half, demand for Playstations and steak dinners would also be cut in half, as long as the reduction effected every region/cuture/social niche/etc. fairly equally. If the poluation redction hit one area, such as Playstation Gamers or Steak Eaters unequally, things start to change. THis might be why the Japanese are worried about a declining popultion in a world where the opposite is the norm. Yeah, the world is quite capable of growing enough food to feed everyone. Yeah, it is more efficient for people jut to eat plants than to support livestock. However, no one is starving because of livestock. People are starving becuase of other people. Or, to be more accurate-people are stariving becuase other people can't make "enough" profit by feeding them. Don't blame the cows.

It's a shame. Jimmy will be missed. I suspected this was going to happen after his retirmenet for health reasons, but I thought he would be with us a bit longer. I guess that we have been lucky that so many of the orginal series cast are still with us after 40 years.

Well, for those who want Tennant to stay three years, relax. It seems he did sign a 3 year contract when he got the job. So he should last for at least 3 years, as long as the ratings hold. I just hope he will be good at it. Being his dream job and all, doesn't mean that he will do well in the role. It doesn't hurt, but it isn't a mark of greatness. We really won't know until we a five or six episodes into next season.

Ice Warriors

Time is the way that humans notice the effects of entropy. If you go alonmg with thw whole concept that the act of measuring something causes a change in state, it would seem to follow that by measuring time, we alter it.

Actually, a lot of the continutity problems may not exist. Suppsedly, the Daleks in this serial are an offshoot that stayed behind on Skaro while the rest went off in space to conquest the universe. So it is possible that the stuff that is later contradicted could in fact be true. There may have been a second war on Skaro, and the Daleks being powered in the city by "Static electrictiy" could all fit in with later events. One thing I find very interesting about the Dalkes in this serial is that they aren"t quite the signle minded racist that they become in latter stories. It"s all still there, but these Dalkes are able to be a bit more pragmatic, even diplomatic, compared to the latter versions. It makes them more tragic, sympathetic creatures.

Yeah, the Bog did get easier. That is ineviatable when a villian gets re/over-used. What happens is that as we see the heros thwart the villians over and over, the villians loose thier air of menace. "Resistance is futile, " just doesn"t have the same impact after resistance has been shown to be rather successful-mulitple times. Familiarity breeds contempt. The more powerful the menace, the faster the effect. That is why foes that are about as tough as or only marginally more powerful than the heroes make better reoccuring villians than the overpowering types.

Maybe he did. There has been a lot of speculation about Davros being the Emperor Dalek back in the old series. It all sort of depends on which side won the "Dalek Civil War".

I voted no. Superman is now fantasy, not SF. Science Fiction requies that some sort of advancedment in scientiic knowledge is used as a central point of a story. However, orginally, back before he could fly and had all his powers upgraded and expaned, he was science fiction. All his powers were orginally due to his being the last of a race of spermen who had achieved physical perfection. Admittedly, is was based on science fiction as of 1938, and much of it was shakey, but it was SF. In the 40s, as other heroes appeared, the character was made more powerful, and less scientifically plausible. Still, practially all programms that are considered to be SF by the general public are usually Science Fantasy instead. Star Wars being an excellent example. Star Trek and Doctor Who, as they have episodic stories, meaner back and forth between the two. Some of thier stories are Science Fiction, but most are more science fantasy.

The ultimate in "Collectable limited edition". :rolleyes:

In any "realsitic" (that is true to the souces) battle, neither side would win, as the main characters (of whatever series) would show up and beat both sides. Trying to prove one side's superiority with real science is like trying to prove the relative superioity of a one chemical weapon over another byusing Aristotle's peroidic table of elements. Can"t be done. Both series have thier own laws of reality and science that do not hold up -and yes, TREK is as bad a WHO in that regard.

Here is what the Hitchiker"s Guide to the Galaxy has to say on the subject of who would win a interstellar war between the Daleks and the Borg....not you. If the Daleks win, YOU will still be exterminated as you are not one of them (any Dalek that doubted Dalek supremacy enough to look up the outcome in the guide would also be exterminated). If the Borg win, YOU will still be assimilated. If, by some misfortune, you find yourself in a situation where the topic is of more than academic interest, say, between a fleet of horribly beweaponed Dalek saucers and another fleet of equally beweaponed Borg cubes, spheres and other geometrically shaped interstellar craft- take what little satisfaction you have left to you. First, toss your pilot out the airlock for being so unbelievably irresponisble to have flown bwtween two opposing fleets in the first place. Then grab youself a few dozen stiff drinks. If you happen to be the aforementioned irresponible pilot, cheer up in the fact that everyone else board your ship is going to wind up exterminated--or assimilated, but with a massive hangover!

The thing about altering the timeline, in both DR WHO and STAR TREK is that it is a very risky thing, and the outcome cannot be determined. Both series have made the point that changing an event can (and usually will) have unforseen repurcussions, with a possiblity of winding up in a much worse situation than existed before. I suspect that neither the Daleks nor the Borg would want to start down that path reckelessly.

There was a thread awhile back where several people disccused what shows would be good ones to indroduce Doctor Who to new viewers. Going over that would probably help in regards to some sort of order. Straight in order isn"t a ood idea for Who. Many of the show"s definining moments don't pop up until the 70s.

I think the outcome of DALEKS vs BORG would depend on what particular versions showed up for the fight. The Daleks are clver and resourceful, UNLESS Davros is present. Then they either wait for him to solve thier problems or are too preoccupied with Davros to accomplish anything else. The BORG, on the otherhand (claw, sucker?), were very effective in thier first couple of appearances, but they also sort of degenerated along the way. Starfleet proved better able to adapt ("Resistance is useless! Even though it has worked out pretty good for you so far!"). Once the Borg got a Queen, she hamstung them in ways similar to Davros' effect on the Daleks. In the end, Janeway was able to "pull a Doctor" on the Borg. THat is, whenever she showed up the Borg got beaten.

How about an image of the TARDIS materializing on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise?

I aslo think that Davros is behind this/is bad wolf. It seems to fit in very well. Consider; 1)The Daleks have time travel technology, so he has the means. 2) Davros would be that vindinctive to go after the Doctor (constantly thwarting his plans, defeating the Daleks, destroying Skaro, wiping out MOST of thethe Dalek fleet in the timewar);, so he has motivation and has shown a desire in the past to defeat/humiliate/seek revenge on the Doctor. 3) In the Classic series, Davrofinally accepted that his Daleks wern"t the invincible creates he thought they were, and was beginning to tinker with them. Incorporating human DNA would make sense, as humans (in the Doctor Who series) seem to be quite good at suriving and adpating to new situations-just what the Daleks were supposed to be able to do. Still, I can"t understand why Davros would keep Rose alive. That does seem to hint at "the Dalek". ..unless Micky is behind it all...

I was disappointed by the episode. 45 minutes of "filler" and plot holes with hints that next week"s episode should be good.

On it"s way. You might want to look at the Big Finish bundled packages, too.

Actually the Master wss way past his 13th regeneration. In the movie, the Master get suked into the Eyes of Harmony and "digested" by the TARDIS. Of course, there are some problems with this (and the rest on the movie) as far as series continuity goes.