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Regular
Price $49.97
Starring:
Elizabeth Gracen,
Paul Johansson,
Directed By:
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Release Date: 1998
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Format:
Box set,
Color,
DVD-Video,
Full Screen,
NTSC,
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Editorial Reviews and
DVD Information about
Highlander: The Raven - The Complete Series (8DVD/CD)
Description
"She is a creature of legend…like the Raven, a thief who stole the sun and the moon. They sent a warrior to bring her back. He found her, and together they brought light back to the world. Sexy Amanda Derieux, teaming up with freelance security expert, Nick Wolfe, puts her high octane arsenal of charisma and sassy, good looks into full force to charm, confound and, when necessary, destroy Immortals bent on evil
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Highlander: The Raven - The Complete Series (8DVD/CD)
Highlander : The Raven
This series was an off shoot from the original series that could have gone far further than it did. It protrayed the reverse of the original Highlander series with the main character being a immortal Woman with a mortal Man as a secondary character. There is action, humor, romance and even a bit of history there for the viewers. A story of violence with a Woman's touch of grace.Highlander: The Raven - The Complete Series (8DVD/CD)
She is Immortal.......
Too bad the series only lasted one season.
THE RAVEN picks up the story of Amanda, the popular recurring character from the Highlander series. Amanda is an immortal and a thief who has been dividing her time most recently between Toronto and Paris (when not dropping into Duncan Macleod's life), engaging in various high thefts to support her highend lifestyle. As the series opens Amanda crosses paths with Nick Wolfe, a police detective whose life becomes entangled with hers when he discovers her immortality. Fans of the Highlander franchise will recognize much of the familiar formula, visiting immortals, flashbacks of previous lives, sword fights and Quickenings, that made the Highlander an international hit for 6 seasons. Sadly THE RAVEN did not last past the first season.
Fans of the Highlander series had not been ready to see it end, neither had the series creators so the idea of a spinoff series was born. Various concepts were tried out and eventually, with much fan enthusiasm, the character of Amanda, the character played by Elizabeth Gracen, who though originally planned for one episode, had become a recurring part of the series. This spinoff, like the original Highlander series, was to be a syndicated program and an international effort. Unfortunately the agreements seemed to stop there, along with apparently all communication.
The various groups creating this series (Canadian, French and German) all seemed to have different points of view about the direction of the new show. Canadians wanted another rather dark action adventure much like the first Highlanders series, the Europeans wanted a more light romantic comedy show with even more differences between the French and Germans. Sadly these issues were only a taste of things to come.
In addition to the 22 episodes this set includes four episodes with audio and visual commentaries and multi part feature concerning the problems that plagued the series. There is an eighth disk, a cd-rom that contains biographies of most of the actors, a triva game, scripts of most of the shows and production notes and storyboards of a couple of the shows. Fans of the show (and really who else would buy this set?) will probably enjoy these extras also as much as the episodes, if nothing else than to explain why a show that started with such promise ended so badly.Highlander: The Raven - The Complete Series (8DVD/CD)
Oh well, could have been worse
I loved Highlander and one of my favorite characters was Amanda, played by Elizabeth Gracen. This show had potential but it was canceled before it could develop it. Elizabeth Gracen is alway excellent. The rest of the cast? Not was great. The writing was a bit choppy and Johansson, who played Nick, had horrible chemistry with Amanda. His performance left much to be desired and the show turned into a detective show with a few immortals running around. It had none of the great mysticism the original Highlander had and lacked good stories. This is a pity though, I loved Amanda's character.Highlander: The Raven - The Complete Series (8DVD/CD)
Very disappointing
I recently purchased and viewed the entire Highlander series. I vaguely remembered this show and always thought Elizabeth Ward Gracen was a babe, so I purchased this. Boy, was I disappointed. It was even worse than I eventually remembered.
At the core, the setup is cheesy, there is little chemistry between the stars*, Paul Johansson isn't a very good actor and the immortal mythology is treated as a side-gimmick rather than central to the show (the episodes of Highlander that did this tended to be the worse ones as well.)
*The Gracen and Johansson apparently hated each other, which partly explains the lack of chemistry, though bad writing didn't help.
It's also quite obvious that the producers lost some of their best writers and production staff. Using Montreal surely didn't help.
Fortunately, someone on eBay wanted it.Highlander: The Raven - The Complete Series (8DVD/CD)
amazing...
How could Elizabeth Gracen go from fantastic in Highander to lousy in Raven? The only part of this set worth watching are the interviews in which everyone attempts to blame everyone else...but especially the unstable Gracen and her insane real life boyfriend.Highlander: The Raven - The Complete Series (8DVD/CD)
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