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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I counted once. In the six-year run of the series, Duncan beheaded around 80 Immortals, which according to his tally in "Endgame" was around half his known total. I too got annoyed that Duncan always defeated the bad guys. I mean, as the hero in a life-and-death fight, you kinda HAVE to win, but by the third or fourth season it was looking a little too easy. There was only one time that he was REALLY worried about losing, in the first-season fight with Grayson. But yeah, I was hoping that just ONCE he'd fight and lose, and have to run away. The ACTUAL consequences of absorbing all those quickenings aren't always evident. But after 170+ heads, I'd say Duncan is powerful enough to make it look easy. Dramatically though, it gets pretty repetitive. Never heard of a deaf Immortal (no pun intended), or a blind one for that matter. Immortals seem to be born, or found, without any major defects. It's perfectly reasonable to figure that at SOME point in history someone permenantly blew out his ears or was stabbed in the eyes by toothpicks before they "truly" became Immortal, but we've yet to run into one. One would figure though that they'd still be at a disadvantage, unless they had some of those rare extra powers to make up for it. As for forensics, the writers themselves were told not to worry about it, and to count it as part of the suspension of disbelief required for a show like this. Like the prevalence of English throughout the Stargate universe, it'd take up too much of a 45-minute show if they spent time every epsiode wondering what's going on with all the headless bodies turning up. They only once referred to a dead guy found in a previous episode (Slan Quince from the pilot), but since then it's basically ignored. Most assume that the victor in most cases would clean up the body out of respect, or at least desire to avoid getting caught. Duncan has been seen carrying off headless corpses on more than one occasion. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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