#There can be only one

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Since Mr. Compress was a thief before he joined LoV, I feel like we have a missed opportunity of his villain name being Phantom Thief and that being the alias he's gone by for years.

And then Monoma chooses that for his hero name and they have a catty copyright argument over it.

Or at the very least, he gets a personal dig in by saying, "You know, I almost chose Phantom Thief for my villain name, but I thought it was too cliché. Well done, you unoriginal child."

Gauntlet thrown, people.

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Christopher Lambert and Clancy Brown - Highlander (1986)

[eneasbastianini]

the bez and pecco chronicles: there can be only one edition

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"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"

[simplesimperey]

🎀🦷💕”there can ONLY BE ONE ☝️ person with BANGS in this GROUP-“💕🦷🎀

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Join us for Highlander discussion, fic feedback, and general shenanigans.

You...you are a fan of shenanigans, aren't you?

Fitz will be very disappointed if you are not.

Don't disappoint Fitz.

[existenceexists]

there can be only one editing is so evil i cannot

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[propalitetz]

ive cracked the code

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QUICK GIFS: Enea Bastianini in There Can Be Only One - s2 ep1 for @cathedralofspeed

[mostlyinthemorning]

Highlander Rewatch Episode 1.1

Join me for a daily(ish) blogging of what was once my favourite show.

Once upon a time, long, long ago, my first love was Highlander (the TV series). I've wanted to rewatch it for a long time, but it isn't streaming anywhere and the box of battered VHS tapes that I’d recorded off of cable have been lost to the sands of time. Thankfully, Youtube has come through, hopefully I can piece together all the episodes in the right order.

If I'm going to watch 119 episodes of this show (Wow, that's a lot of TV, I forgot how long TV seasons used to be), what better way to experience this than to share my random thoughts on the random-thought-sharing website?

*Note, this won’t be a live-blogging so much as a collection of thoughts after I watch each episode.

More below the cut in case anyone is worried about spoilers for a…checks notes…oh, god, that can’t be right…32 year old show. Anyway...there can be only one! Let’s go.

Episode 1.1 The Gathering

IMBD Description: Immortal Duncan MacLeod leaves tranquility when kinsman Connor returns and evil Immortal Slan Quince challenges him to a battle. [It's very funny that Slan has a last name in the credits, because it definitely didn't come up as he was threatening and swording at people. I'm also dying at "leaves tranquility" as a description that's supposed to mean...anything.]

Tranquility or not, let's watch this thing.

I appreciate an opening scene that transitions from giggly sex to this:

Yes. Good. No notes.

Am also belatedly realizing how imprinted I am on Mac’s nicely styled long hair and intense eyes. 

Oh, I forgot how much blatant misogyny there was in the 90s. Well, we’re just going to have to work through it together. 

Christopher Lambert is not a great actor, but there’s something subtly charming about him. Having him in the first episode really transitions the series nicely from the movie, even if everyone’s acting is a bit stiff. 

They really laid the groundwork for Tessa’s death in season 2 so early with the conversation between her and Mac about him outliving all of his past lovers. [Side note: I was enraged by her death at the time and nearly quit watching, let’s see how I feel this time around.] I love how spunky Tessa is from the get-go, not letting Mac call the shots, even though he tries to. And both of them being ride or die for each other is why I was so into the show at the time. Too bad it ended up being the latter. (Can you tell I’m still bitter?)

 Ritchie is such a punk kid. In my head he was a bit older, and a lot more annoying than he seems this time around. Now he seems more true to how a 17 year old would be if he discovered a bunch of immortal swordspeople living among us. 

The flashback scenes are another area that I’m potentially a bit yikes about - very interested to see how they hold up.

Love the ending of the episode where we’re apparently not going to talk about Mac running away or anything like that? Now everything is fine? Truly a Gen-X style resolution we can all be proud of. 

I have skipped over all the swordplay, but rest assured there was a lot of it, and the good guys prevailed.

On to episode 1.2!