Unless you are the Highlander, and suffer from an endless stream of sequels!
Here we go: –
Highlander 1:
Was a film that stood on its own as a decent film, in so much that it had a plot, followed a time line, and made sense. Not to mention the file was fantastic, and featured an amazing soundtrack.
Highlander 2:
Decided to ignore the beginning of the first film, where the main character grew up and met the others for the first time. Instead it made them all aliens, who all know each other on another planet, before being sentenced to be exiled to Earth. They just happened to forget they knew each other in the first film.
Highlander 3:
Now we realise the second film made no sense at all. So lets forget it completely and continue from the end of the first film, as if the second never happened. Lets bring in a bit of magic to help explain immortals instead of “Space Aliens” and continue along the original lines.
Highlander 4:
Ok, we have a problem. We killed off everyone bar the highlander, but we have created two TV spin offs we have to explain. This is a bit tricky, since they have a lot of immortals in the shows, and all the immortals were killed off in the films. Not a problem, hardly an inconvenience! Lets follow the famous dynasty story line. “It was all a dream”, We will jump back in time to about half way through the first film and make everything from there on a dream the highlander had. That should do it.
Highlander 5:
Right lets make a new film to right the wrongs of earlier ones. We’ll throw in all the popular characters from the TV series (apart from the Raven). Set it at some near future date, have a powerful but insane bad guy, let the sword be broken (again making the so called Scotsman go from using a Japanese style sword to some Chinese swords). We will change the whole reason behind the immortality again, but to appease the fans we will throw in some queen tracks from the original.
Highlander 6:
I think it is safe to say now, that everyone has realised our writers are all heavily into drug use. So let us do an animated film. We will set it 100s of years into the future, with mutants and cyborgs and every other sci-fi trope we can think of. Oh and bring Conner back from the dead for the X time. (who even knows how many times by now)