Highlander (TV Series) The Zone (1993) User Reviews

Mac, don't be a Mary Sue! The people in the zone should have been the ones fighting back at the end. Kind of a weak story. Bad stereotype.

[reb-warrior · 6/10 · 9 March 2020]

A Watcher gets killed in "the zone." Joe wonders if a man, Canaan, is an immortal and asks Duncan if he could check it out. The watcher is also a reporter. It seems he was reporting on "the zone" and Canaan's sudden rise in politics. All the watchers seem to have regular jobs in addition to being a watcher. It seems odd that The Watchers would have had a reporter as a watcher. You'd think that would be the last kind of person they would want.

Mac is reluctant to get involved, telling Joe to get the police or check it themselves. Joe makes excuses and Mac relents. Busy body Charlie can't mind his own business when he hears that Mac is going to the zone. Mac tells him to stay out of it, but he goes anyway.

Canaan is a very bad stereotype in so many different ways.

Mac determines that Canaan is not an immortal. Just a thug that has become political and operates out of "the zone" like a gang leader. Mac was supposed to drop it once he figured out that the guy wasn't an immortal. But now he decides the guy is evil and he needs to be stopped. The conversation with Joe made Mac sound like he was the great pure savior coming to save the poor folks. I wish they edited out the conversation, and Mac decided to stop Canaan without saying what his motivation was. He just sounded so Mary Sue.

I liked seeing Mac get out of the freezer and later beat up Canaan. I know the point is after the humiliation the people are no longer afraid and will stand up to him. But I didn't see anyone stand up to him when Mac and Charlie were fighting him and his thugs. They just walked away in disgust. The writers should have written it so that the people were the ones that actually fought back.

The episode was kind of weak. Even the flashback wasn't that great. I gave it a 6/10

one of the no immortal epis

[jtsjtssmokey-703-366973 · 7/10 · 4 June 2014]

Not a fave but has some funny/good parts, opening with Charlie and Mac, course Charlie really don't know Mac has big advantage, hmm except with maybe boxing, also a bit of background on Charlie. Also return of Joe, and again, "lets not get this as a habit" as Joe asks Mac to get involved with a poss immortal, but they don't yet know as (title) the zone is a very bad place. Not polite to eavesdrop, (would really have been interesting if he could have overheard the immortal part) but Charlie thinking Mac in over his head, well in a way is, but not the way Charlie thinks.

Course Charlie don't listen, follows mac, Mac knows this, gives in, sees that don't have a choice (Richie out of this, Mac don't want him there either when Charlie suggested), and Charlie says its even worst than when he grew up there, but there is 1 person who supposedly didn't give up or in, so takes Mac to meet her, Asia.

The back story, only sorta fit, with miners and the bosses son working them unknown to both his dad and his co workers, and him shot by those his dad sends/brings to well kill, did the dad learn, probably not from what history has written.

Canaan, the 1 Joe not sure of isn't immortal, just a very bad guy preying on those with nothing, only the most we all have, life, to loose. Charlie seeing youth being given a gun, decides he is stepping in, as Mac says Canaan not who he thought but with Charlie, well theys involved, and while Charlie talks to Tio, Mac "found" taken by surprise, well hit from behind, and Charlie see Mac go into the lake/river/water, cant tell what they wanted it to be, dives in to save Mac but...tbc

Macs sarcasm to Joes hows the water, wet, funny. But not over, as Mac gets involved even though no immortal, Joe only kinda gets it, as cops wont do anything there and Canaan is evil.

tbc...Love Charlie in the dark attacking Mac, mind you thinks he must be dead, and the this is getting to be a bad habit again, and the conversation about the water and how cold it was, "woke" Mac up and Charlie says he knows, spent half an hour looking for Mac. Was there for a friend, now Mac is going for himself, going to "clean up" and well poor Tio and Asia, was on the take but, Poor Charlie but but Mac gets he and Asia out of cold and kicks butt.

Bittersweet ending, though my thinking, wish Mac told him about immortals then, (ok yes understand Macs thinking/reasoning not to tell but) or at least after well wont spoil for another epi here in case someone reading this is watching for 1st time or rewatching after yrs and cant remember or was to young to remember, (me with the original Bionic woman). Charlie is a great friend to have.