I think the series is a product of its time. For all the good and bad that entails. I wasn’t able to watch it at the time it aired, but I somehow got a copy of a catalog filled with show-related merch, and that lived in my imagination for a long time. When I finally watched it a couple years ago, it was… a fairly painful experience. I was only able to get through it by using it as background noise while I played games on a handheld console (Vita, 3DS) or worked. After the first season, it did kind of improve for the next couple seasons, but never enough that I’d consider it anything more than average TV (and even that would be generous for most of it). The last three seasons were bad enough that if I didn’t already have the full series on hand, I simply would’ve dropped it altogether.

I do appreciate the way the show expanded the mythos, though. Having all those factions, both mortal and immortal, was a good decision.

I think a full reboot could serve this well, and I’d be excited to see what they can with a decent budget on a streaming platform (for example), without all the constraints of broadcast TV standards and practices.

He’s not all there. Look at his profile

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Hold on a sec, you don’t want them to use any of the Highlander 2 revolutionary ideas?

/s

Seriously though, trying to reboot Highlander might actually work. It’s a known property, but really only the first movie had any value (and some of the TV series) and it’s not that well known from younger generations. It’s also not such a classic that you cannot touch it without people screaming (like, say, Ghostbusters)

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Yea that’s a waste. But not all. James bond is a good example. You just start the story and go

Could be straightforward enough. Just start with his death and then he wakes up. Mild confusion, but Conner finds him quick enough to explain the basics, your immortal now, there can be only one, we’ve done this before but something new fucked it up.

He can either be the new Sean Connery as a mentor, or have him get instakilled by our big bad.

We can see Carvell deal with his old life (perhaps someone had him killed, aka mafia?) and the new immortal world he got sucked into.

… Or maybe I just wrote it the way you said sucks, I’m not sure

I’d say it’s less Cavill specifically and more the entire mood of a “Superman” story. Superman is basically entirely about the hopeful motivation of the human spirit. He’s an avatar for humanity though he’s not even human. He’s the best of us without even being one of us. To me it can be boiled down to one moment, the moment where Jonathan Kent talked his own son out of being the best he could be in favor of selfishly keeping a secret.