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Making Kate Immortal - a better way

posted 14 years ago by RainbowBoy25
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The way Duncan activated her immortality totally messed up his relationship with her, as evidenced by her running away from him immediately after and then hating him many years later.

What he SHOULD have done was to sneak up behind her one day and do it while her back was turned. Then, when she revives, he could have "found" her and said "Oh, my god, honey, what happened to you? Are you okay?"

"Oh yes, dear, I'm fine."

Many years later...

"Duncan, dear, have you noticed that we don't seem to be aging at all? Just curious..."

[–] Littlebitsofgaming 14 years ago

Or Duncan could have just explained his immortality, shown Kate he was immortal.
Then given her a choice.

But that would have made sense, in a film in which NOTHING makes sesne.

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[–] Dlp07 14 years ago

Agreed Endgame's a mess but doesn't it have to be a "Sudden (i.e. unexpected)and violent" death? Maybe if you warn someone you're about to kill them to make them immortal it wouldn't work? Just putting it out there.

[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 14 years ago

Well I'm sure in his mind he was going to be able to calm her down and explain it to her. The other way as weird as it sounds would be more deceitful.

He would also of had to train her to fight to keep her head because others would come after both of them.

As far as the reply that he could of explained it to her. That might of worked but I also think that if she was expecting it then it wouldn't be traumatic or unexpected.

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[–] Tsavo 14 years ago

It was even more stupid than that, I mean Im sorry, even in the series never once had a future immortal die of old age, and the part where she's deriding him for taking away her ability to have children, when it was specifically STATED in the series that there is no having children, even before they "become" immortal. Still, the movie had a lot of potential, I think though the editing really messed it up.

[–] I_Guard_Tanelorn 12 years ago

I would have paid a thug to stab her while robbing her purse while we were dressed up and walking about town. Duncan was a total retard. But it's clearly demonstrated in the series that young Duncan really was a moron, for at least 100 years or so, so I got no prob with him handling that situation so badly. That part of the movie was pretty solid to me. I maybe even would have had a scene with Connor talking about it and telling him just that. "Maybe stabbing her after boning her brains out wasn't the smoothest way to handle that my friend."

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[–] Super-Van 12 years ago

The deaths do have to be violent deaths but the sudden/unexpected is unclear. Still there were soooo many different ways to go about it. Telling he is might have worked unless she freaked out and thought he was a demon.

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[–] speccyboy 11 years ago

While talking with Duncan over Kate's immortality, Connor tells him that it can only be activated by the shock of a violent death - he doesn't say whether or not it has to be sudden, but it does have to take the subject by surprise, regardless of whether or not they know it.