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The Game (Highlander)
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The Game is a Highlander trope, derived from canon.
The Game is the battle between Immortals; also refers to the centuries-old tradition of fighting each other. The winner of said battle will gain all the knowledge of all the immortals defeated by his challenger, with the ultimate prize being enough knowledge and power to rule the world. Depending on one's point of view, the Game either has two rules or two traditions: fighting shall be one-on-one, and no fighting on Holy Ground.
Fan Comments
I have thoughts about the Game, mostly that it is total bullshit and that it is just an easy-to-fixate-on purpose for immortals who go a little crazy with wondering what the point of their immortality is to latch on to. Also it doesn't make sense because there's not necessarily a mechanism to stop new pre-immortals from being born.[1]
I've always thought that was one of those "Oops, I guess this isn't movie canon anymore" things. In the original movie, I thought it was strongly implied that the whole game/gathering thing actually did have some kind of internal logic and a finite end. In the series, it just seems like a lot of BS. (Hence all those fics where it turns out the prize is Methos or something else totally ridiculous happens.)
- Yeeeeah, the Game suddenly has a lot less internal logic when you have to postpone it indefinitely. I still think it's a bit silly, though, because even if you only have five new Immortals per generation, all the beheadings start to seem more like a population control than something with an end goal.[2]
If you want debates on the nature of the game though, look no further than every nerdy guy who was in his 20s in the 1980s. Just saying. (If I never hear another "philosophical" discussion about the original movie again, it will be too soon! :D)[3]
References
- ^ comments at fannish navel-gazing (July 2010)
- ^ comments at fannish navel-gazing (July 2010)
- ^ comments at fannish navel-gazing (July 2010)