Someone on the "Raven" board said that the unraveling of The Watchers' more peculiar aspects is the topic of another board. Ask, and you shall receive!

Actually I wrote 'Not that anything the Watchers do ever makes sense, but I suppose that's a discussion for another board.', but thanks anyway.

I only started watching Highlander in the last few years of the show, so maybe some of the things which bugged me about the Watchers had been explained earlier.

I never knew why the Watchers kept these records of Immortals until the Raven episode A Matter Of Time, and there it was explained that One day the immortals will be gone and the Watchers' records will be the only thing to prove they existed and the affect they had on mortal history. Well, that may have been the original reason, but considering how many heads have rolled during the movies and both TV series, there seem to be more immortals than ever and new ones popping up all the time. It seems that for as long as there are mortals there will be immortals and they will most likely outlive the mortals. But I suppose that's too depressing a thought for the Watchers to consider.

Why can't the Watchers testify that they saw an immortal commit a crime? If the immortal gets off, assign a new Watcher. If the immortal is convicted, then they become easier to watch, because they're in prison. Okay, maybe if a Watcher testifies to witnessing too many crimes they might become too famous to work as a field agent, but is that a good reason to let anyone get away with a crime?

On a related note in A Matter Of Time the Watchers removed the dead body of a Watcher. Now they are covering up the crimes of immortals. Why not just call the cops to get the body?

This probably doesn't really apply here, but I'm a little curious... is Jim Byrnes (aka Joe Dawson) really an amputee with prothestic legs, or is that really good acting?

No Jim is really is a amputee. I have seen him in other series and movies walking with a cane. And when he was on Wiseguy there was article about him being the first actor on a series who had actually had a disablity that his character had.

AFAIK Jim Byrnes lost both legs in a car accident when he was hit by a drunken driver.

Y'know it is kinda curious that both the Slayers
in the Buffyverse and Immortals in the Highlander
Universe have their personal Watchers.

We know on Buffy that the Watchers are part of a Council that regulates their action and the action of the Slayers they are in charge of,is there a similiar Council for Immortal Watchers?
Also how are Watchers on Highlander chosen?

There is a similar council for the Immortal wachers, we mainly see the French Headquarters in the series. I imagine their function is similar to the Buffy watchers, co-ordinate Watchers in the field, collate and record immortal activity.

Don't know if it's ever been revealed how Watchers are chosen. I'd imagine many are chosen if their parents were in the Watchers although I can't remember the exact reason Dawson was recruited even though there was a [Season 4] episode about it.