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Well, Methos was a series "regular" from the 3rd season on. He was already about 2500 years old when the Horsemen rode, and its possible he went under the name of Thanatos at the time (although the other Horsemen, all Immortal, called him by the name they probably knew him from before).
Kronos was another old Immie, about 4000 years old when MacLeod killed him in the 5th season, and hey, maybe he was the basis for the Greek titan myth, hmmm?
I don't know where they came up with the names of Silas and Caspian. Quite possibly, Caspian was born near the Caspian sea, and took the name (like in the movie, the Kurgan was from an ancient people called the Kurgans, so he kept that name). And Silas has always liked the unpopular things ... goes back to when he was a kid (he's also one of the few Immortals to use a weapon *other* than a sword)
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Superstring theory requires ten dimensions, if memory serves, its just that all but four dimensions (x, y, z, t) got squished into infintesimally small loops (the superstrings themselves). At least, I'm fairly sure that's how it works. And even if that is how it works, don't ask me how a dimension gets squished.
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Jeff: Hm... Is it safe, then, to assume that these "Horsemen" of Highlander are not meant to be the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Rather, that they're just four of the immortals who call themselves such?
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Nice list, man! Hey! I've BEEN on the air plane, several times actually!!! (Stomache-acids flow due to pun, aargh)
The Kurgans never existed, did they?
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No, they're actually meant to be the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ...
Who just happened to be Immortal. There's a line in the episode that clears up any doubt, I forget exactly how it goes:
"The Horsemen ... are legend, if they existed, it was thousands of years ago..." - MacLeod
"They were real, alright, and your friend Methos was one of them ..." - Cassandra
The Kurgans *did* exist! About 3,000 years ago or so. Very vicious people, although I don't actually know if they threw small children to dogs for food.
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Without bashing them, I must say the russian people always HAVE been rather special. A different society, different psychology. And the Kurgans might be a cornerstone to the whole soup, then.
IIRC, the four horsies never were a christian legend/myth but a greek one, I recently saw a quote from Socrates or Aristoteles, naming three of them.
But perhaps they are mentioned in the Book anyway, aren't they? Along with that famous pale horse I've heard so much about in many "western's".
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Aboot the "four elements", didn't Data have a point when he said that fire isn't a separate element, in that ep where he lost his memory in a medieval village.
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"I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth."
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Well, of course they're in the bible... I thought pretty much everyone knew that. I thought that was the only reference to them that most people knew of at all...
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The quote from Aristotle doesn't describe an actual quartet of horsemen, just the consequences.
"From time to time it is necessary that pestilence, famine, and war prune the luxuriant growth of the human race"
-- Aristotle 384-322 b.c
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Yeah, I'd say Aristotle was just being general there. No connection to the Apocalyptic Mounties...
Two of the Four Horsemen represented war and death. One of them is a "conqueror", which is practically the same as war. And the other one, although usually called "famine", actually represents inflation, given the words used. The bible I've got right here calls them "war" (the conqueror), "strife" (the war one), "famine" (inflation), and "pestilence" (even though the actual biblical text specifically calls him "thanatos", which means "death").
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