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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Karma with a Grudge by Reno Macleod Karma with a Grudge by Reno Macleod Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Karma With A Grudge by Reno MacLeod Karma With A Grudge by Reno MacLeod. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 65897c0d69dcc3cf • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Series / Highlander. Highlander: The Series is the 1992-1997 series inspired by the popular Highlander film franchise. It stars British actor Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod, the younger kinsman of the movies' Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), who passes the torch in the pilot episode. The series was a French-Canadian co-production, which resulted in half of it being filmed in the U.S. and Vancouver and the other half in Paris. The exceptions were Season Six and the Spin-Off series (see below), which were filmed entirely in Paris. The central premise was a bit predictable at times: Duncan would encounter an old immortal enemy, or an immortal friend with someone chasing after them, and the episode would end with Duncan battling his opponent and beheading them. Modern day scenes were interspersed with flashbacks to earlier periods in Duncan's life, typically his first encounter with the immortal of the week. There were some unavoidable Continuity Snarls between the films and the TV series, and many things were retconned to fit into the TV canon. Still, the series managed to appeal to fans of the film franchise, and it gained an international cult following which persists today. Canon Immigrants from the show were featured in the fourth and fifth films of the franchise, Highlander: Endgame and Highlander: The Source . Half of Season Six was an extended screen-test to find a female immortal to cast in a spinoff; it was ultimately decided to use the already- established character of Amanda the cat burglar (Elizabeth Gracen) instead. The Raven only lasted a season due to inter-personal and creative issues backstage. The entire show has been legally uploaded to Youtube by its current distributor so you can watch it for free here. This series provides examples of: Above Good and Evil: For some, being alive for centuries can create quite the God complex. Absurdly Sharp Blade: Not as bad as some examples, but still crops up on occasion. Duncan has cut cleanly through both another sword and a heavy wooden desk. Achilles' Heel: Immortals can heal almost any wound perfectly, but their necks are uniquely vulnerable. A singer whose neck is injured loses his singing voice forever. note The pilot implies that their entire heads might be so vulnerable, as Slan uses a mask to protect his face from damage. However, a few episodes later, Duncan has acid thrown in his face and is none the worse for wear, so. Action Girl: Amanda, she's a skilled thief and fighter and even has some years as a professional acrobat under her belt. She's also all too quick to rush into danger if it gets her what she wants. Actually Not a Vampire: The episode "The Vampire" features what appears to be a string of vampire attacks in South London in 1840. The victims in Paris all have missing blood and piercing wounds on their neck. There's even a Van Helsing-type character hunting the vampire. He catches him too, only to be shocked when the vampire gets up from being staked. Turns out the vampire was immortal Nick Ward, faking vampire attacks so that he could kill his young bride and inherit her money. He drains the blood of his victims with a special hypodermic cane, which leaves bite marks. A Day in the Limelight: Indiscretions , one of the final episodes, is focused entirely on Methos and Joe while Duncan is out of town. Affectionate Nickname: Many of Duncan MacLeod's friends refer to him as "Mac" for short. All There in the Manual: The Watcher Chronicles CD ROM contains a wealth of information about every character seen (and, in some cases, characters only mentioned) on the series. There was also a series of eight novels (a ninth was outlined but never written) that fleshed out certain characters and situations. Both the CD and the novels are canonical. The Ageless: A potential immortal is locked into the age at which they suffer their first death. Always Save the Girl: Duncan has this bad and it is used against him repeatedly throughout the series. Alternate Universe: The “Imagine” novels have Tessa survive instead of dying when she’s shot. She ends up becoming quite the history detective and a bit of a fighter even. An Axe to Grind: Caleb packs one, and Duncan ends up using it against him in their duel. Kanwulf was very attached to his, and spends three hundred or so years looking for it after Duncan steals it. Anti-Hero: Methos has survived for millennia by not getting hung up on conventional morality. He is cold and ruthless in his dealings with enemies, but is fiercely protective of those he considers his friends. Anti-Interference Lock Up: A season 1 episode had the immortal Villain of the Week lock his adopted daughter in a shed because she was trying to stop him from getting revenge on the kid who raped her. Richie heard her, and let her out just in time for her to shoot the kid when the kid threatens her dad. Arc Words: While the series kept the beloved movie quote "In the end, there can be only one" in use, as the series progressed it became apparent that the "end" was not coming any time soon. Armor-Piercing Question: When Methos (under his alias of Adam) meets an imposter claiming to be Methos and promoting Immortals to stop fighting, the imposter points out that just staying alive for five thousand years isn't the same as living. Revenge by Proxy. A character seeks revenge against their enemy by harming someone the enemy cares about. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", as they say. Who the loved one revenge is taken upon often varies depending on the avenger's motivation, so a character avenging a sister will kill a sister and so on. If the method of revenge isn't murder, Cold-Blooded Torture may also come into play, possibly with a Past Victim Showcase. Particularly horrific when the target is a child, but no matter how horrible the crime being avenged (or how non-innocent the victim is), Revenge By Proxy is often a Kick the Dog moment, since the actual victim is considered only as a means to an ignoble end. Indeed, seeing your loved ones taken away from you, knowing that you yourself caused it, can be a Fate Worse than Death. Often, the justification the villain uses for this act — and it's pretty much always a villain or an extremely dark Anti-Hero that does this, due to it being very much Moral Event Horizon-worthy even if it is in response to another Moral Event Horizon as mentioned above — is that he or she wants the person to suffer as the villain has suffered as a result of the act, even if the hero caused it accidentally and the villain deliberately. Indeed, the chief harm that the villain is concerned with is not the harm to the wife, who died , but to the villain himself, who lost her; this underscores the selfish nature of this form of vengeance. Another common justification is if the hero is protected in some way from the villain or if direct punishment or pain would not be satisfying enough. Killing a Death Seeker would not accomplish the level of mental anguish required for true vengeance, for example, but killing one of their loved ones while they live on. Frequently a Bewildering Punishment for the victim, though this trope is more likely than most to have the villain explain the offense to the victim. In addition to being morally reprehensible, this isn't a particularly practical method of operation, since it runs the serious risk of earning you even more enemies; kidnapping or killing the hero's wife, for example, is a great way to get his otherwise ambivalent in-laws on his side. This in turn is very likely to result in an overall Cycle of Revenge (by proxy or otherwise). If the villain finds himself confronted by the victim's other loved ones, they'll frequently try to shift the blame, insisting that the loved ones direct their anger at the hero instead. Sometimes the villain feigns this to lure the hero within striking distance. If the villain is feeling particularly sadistic, they won't just torture and kill someone the hero cares about; they'll make the hero watch. Sometimes the villain justifies it by claiming that the victim profited from the original crime. Wearing, owning, or using something that belonged to the villain, or one of his own, may provoke it — but don't expect him to inquire about whether the victim knew of the provenance of the item.
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