heeeeeeeeeeee. I've been waiting in anticipation for you to get to these episodes. I've been biting my bottom lip, keeping comments down to an absolute minimum in case I inadvertently spoiled you. Quite often, I think that it would be really nice to be able to selectively wipe parts of your fandom memory and rewatch or reread certain things.
I remember watching this with my mam (Duncan fan) and me (Methos fan) and OMG, Methos is a BAD GUY. It was very much a black and white response on both our parts (my mam to this day is still a little superior that *her* Duncan is a good guy). But after some fairly significant pondering on my part, for me it boiled down to Methos is über complicated character and that is a lot of fun to write. When does the statute of limitation on being Death and killing and enjoying killing run out? Were they crimes when he committed them? Can you impose 20th Century culture on a Bronze Age civilisation? Or is Methos now fundamentally a new person: grown and essentially changed over time to a new person; a more dominant quickening overtook the 'original' Methos; or a synergism of many quickenings induced a personality change; can people change? et cetera… take your pick. There are fic out there.
The element of forgiveness is a really interesting aspect of the whole debacle. Frankly, I hadn’t of really liked Methos before those episodes I probably would have dropped him like a hot potato, which is an interesting observation all on its very own.
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I remember watching this with my mam (Duncan fan) and me (Methos fan) and OMG, Methos is a BAD GUY. It was very much a black and white response on both our parts (my mam to this day is still a little superior that *her* Duncan is a good guy). But after some fairly significant pondering on my part, for me it boiled down to Methos is über complicated character and that is a lot of fun to write. When does the statute of limitation on being Death and killing and enjoying killing run out? Were they crimes when he committed them? Can you impose 20th Century culture on a Bronze Age civilisation? Or is Methos now fundamentally a new person: grown and essentially changed over time to a new person; a more dominant quickening overtook the 'original' Methos; or a synergism of many quickenings induced a personality change; can people change? et cetera… take your pick. There are fic out there.
The element of forgiveness is a really interesting aspect of the whole debacle. Frankly, I hadn’t of really liked Methos before those episodes I probably would have dropped him like a hot potato, which is an interesting observation all on its very own.