How about a meme?

[sholio]

Nicked from trobadora:

Name me a character! I will tell you:

• How I FEEEEEL about this character
• All the people I ship romantically with this character
• My favourite gen relationship with this character
• My unpopular opinion about this character
• One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Any character, any fandom, even if I'm not active in it - as long as you're pretty sure that I'm familiar enough with it to answer the questions. *g*

ETA: This might go without saying, but answers to the questions will include plot spoilers for the character I'm discussing and often for the show in general.

Comments

[scrollgirl]

*cough* Duncan MacLeod?

[sholio]

heeeheeheee - ICON LOVE! ♥

This was the first one asked about on the LJ side, too (apparently I am predictable or something *g*), so I'll just copy my answers from over there!

1. I wasn't expecting to fall for Duncan like I did, mostly because I wasn't expecting him to be the person he turned out to be. From what little I knew of the show, I'd pegged him as a square-jawed, humorless, kind of bland hero type. I was not expecting him to be so incredibly sweet, and funny, and vulnerable, and hopeful, open to new experiences and dedicated to protecting the helpless and always, always trying to make the world a better place in large and small ways. By about halfway through season one, I'd already hit the point where I was willing to follow this protagonist anywhere. *g*

2. I adore Duncan/Tessa and Duncan/Amanda -- could not choose between them, luckily don't have to -- and Duncan/Amanda/Methos is the OT3 of my heart.

3. Oh ... this is hard, because I love all of Duncan's friendships a lot. I'm gonna have to go with Duncan and Joe here. I love their awkward dance back and forth between enmity and friendship through the seasons, culminating at last in a friendship so deep they'd willingly die for each other, a friendship that's weathered some of the hardest blows any relationship can take.

4. Hmm, unpopular opinions ... I don't know how unpopular it is, but I don't think Duncan is even remotely as inflexible and resistant to change as he's often portrayed in fic and fannish meta. He's got a strong moral code, but that's not the same thing as being close-minded, though I get the impression that people sometimes confuse the two. This is not to say that it can't be a flaw, too, but Duncan has always struck me as a character who's very willing to confront his own prejudices if he can see that there's a reason to do so. Just the fact that he's learned so many things and become friends with so many different kinds of people is evidence of that.

5. Wow ... the series took Duncan so many places that it's awfully hard to think of anything I would have wanted to see that didn't happen! Duncan is a character who's been explored to a depth that other shows can only dream of. *g* There are a few things that I would've liked to see more of -- I wish that we'd seen Duncan and Methos in the immediate aftermath of Alexa's death, for example, and I wish they hadn't jumped straight from Joe being shot in "Judgment Day" to a few days later in the basement of the bookstore, because I would've loved to see Duncan dealing with a badly injured Joe while trying to enlist Methos's help in hiding him. The only other thing I can think of is that it would've been fun to see Duncan dealing with kids a little more often; that was something we very rarely got to see. But, basically, everything I wanted to happen to Duncan has already happened in the show.

[scrollgirl]

Glad you like the icon! Adrian Paul has great expressions.

ITA about wanting Duncan with kids! The closest we come are the pre-Immortals he mentors. I doubt this is the reason the show never gave us young kids, but I have to wonder if Duncan and other Immortals don't purposely stay away from small children. They're defenceless in ways adults like Tessa and Joe aren't, easy hostages.

And of course I agree with you 100% on #4. I think there are ways to write him as struggling with a new idea, if we tried. Did the Lakota tribe he lived with have a two-spirited shaman? For a guy with such clear expectations of himself as a man, that would have been an adjustment.