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We joke a lot about Highlander flexibility!

The creator has it up, that's so great! On YouTube, Retcon Media.

My thoughts are I don't think so. I have to ask, whose theory? I never heard of that theory! Unless the writer, Brandon Jerwa, or Andrew Modeen who is listed as Continuity Research, said "Oh yes, I decided that was Gilgamesh!" it really doesn't matter. It can't make sense just because of the time and place of the character's death. All we know about the Highlander Gilgamesh is that Amelatu, the Akkadian, created the Watchers after learning about him, over 4,000 years ago. As it's 2021 now, the Kurgan took that Immortal's head 2,634 years ago. I think. If it really was 4,000 years from 1998, then Ameletu's discovery was in 2002 B.C.E. The Kurgan took this man's head 1,387 years later. In the comic, the Kurgan was supposed to be 25 and "somewhere in the Mediterranean" in 880 B.C.E. He was born in the Russian Steppes and left his second foster mother when he was 12. Of course, all of these are huge regions and the writers are being intentionally vague, but in theory he had traveled over a thousand miles in that 13 years.

I think it might be a sort of a joke. I don't have the background to explain all of this, but went into semi-hysterical giggles when I read about McLeod Syndrome, "The McLeod blood group phenotype is an X-linked anomaly of the Kell blood group system." And "Because of the susceptibility to alloimmunization, it is important to diagnose affected patients because if they are transfused, they can develop antibodies compatible only with McLeod red cells." I know, I know. It's McLeod, not MacLeod. I don't know if this is what someone thought of when they named him Kell, I mean, they might just have been thinking of The Book of Kells, but that seems a bit much.

Never any explanations. That's just on us fans! The showrunners never intended it to be magic and weren't interested in slowing down the episodes with figuring out where the swords were for everyone's wardrobe, except when it made the story better. Like the times Duncan goes jogging and leaves his katana just out of sight in his car, and has to run frantically to get it. I suppose that could make them magicians in the sleight-of-hand sense.