In your personal reckoning, what is the best way to reconcile the third film within the larger franchise?
- Do you stick with the film's original intent and view it as the one and only true sequel to the first film?
This option technically doesn't rule out the first film's novelization, The Element of Fire, The Way of the Sword, or The American Dream, but it does reject any stories set after the Gathering in 1985. Basically, no Shield Corporation, no Seacouver, no Search for Vengeance, and no "Seven centuries have passed since the Earth plunged into darkness."
- Do you take a page from the Dynamite comics run and treat it as a retroactive chapter of the TV series continuity?
Basically, in this case, you do exactly what you do with the first movie: you plug your ears every time it says that the Game is over and pretend that it makes sense alongside the adventures of Duncan MacLeod. It doesn't reaaaally fit all that well with Connor's Sanctuary sojourn in Endgame, but neither does "The Gathering," so it's in good company.
- Do you try to fit it in the world(s) presented in the post-apocalyptic animated Highlander media of your choice?
This choice probably won't get many takers, but for those who have no problem ignoring the Prize talk but can't reconcile it with Endgame, there's always Option 3. Technically, it's two options, since The Animated Series and The Search for Vengeance don't really gel together, but either way, it gives Connor something to do before civilization crumbles.
- Do you write it off as some weird figment of Connor's imagination? (Or Duncan's, for that matter? Anyone's?)
The final option is basically, "It doesn't count." It never really happened in any timeline. Hey, maybe Connor needed a way to pass the time in the Sanctuary and started daydreaming. Or maybe he wrote bad fan fiction for himself while working out that whole Shield thing. Perhaps his Watcher was concocting false rumors. Who knows? Who cares? Not canon.
- Do you stick with the film's original intent and view it as the one and only true sequel to the first film?
This option technically doesn't rule out the first film's novelization, The Element of Fire, The Way of the Sword, or The American Dream, but it does reject any stories set after the Gathering in 1985. Basically, no Shield Corporation, no Seacouver, no Search for Vengeance, and no "Seven centuries have passed since the Earth plunged into darkness."
- Do you take a page from the Dynamite comics run and treat it as a retroactive chapter of the TV series continuity?
Basically, in this case, you do exactly what you do with the first movie: you plug your ears every time it says that the Game is over and pretend that it makes sense alongside the adventures of Duncan MacLeod. It doesn't reaaaally fit all that well with Connor's Sanctuary sojourn in Endgame, but neither does "The Gathering," so it's in good company.
- Do you try to fit it in the world(s) presented in the post-apocalyptic animated Highlander media of your choice?
This choice probably won't get many takers, but for those who have no problem ignoring the Prize talk but can't reconcile it with Endgame, there's always Option 3. Technically, it's two options, since The Animated Series and The Search for Vengeance don't really gel together, but either way, it gives Connor something to do before civilization crumbles.
- Do you write it off as some weird figment of Connor's imagination? (Or Duncan's, for that matter? Anyone's?)
The final option is basically, "It doesn't count." It never really happened in any timeline. Hey, maybe Connor needed a way to pass the time in the Sanctuary and started daydreaming. Or maybe he wrote bad fan fiction for himself while working out that whole Shield thing. Perhaps his Watcher was concocting false rumors. Who knows? Who cares? Not canon.
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