I know! There are so many possibilities! And they should all exist.
I also don't buy into the thing from the last episode, that Duncan ~brought Methos back~. But hang on, Aria and I have totally talked about this, let me go remind myself what we said.
Right, yes, so I'd said But...to a 5000 year old person, a couple years isn't enough to change who you really are. Methos doesn't become a different person over the course of knowing MacLeod; he's the same person, he just has more motivation to do what's "right" because he respects MacLeod's opinion so much.
And she said,
I think you've basically nailed it. I thought the Watcher girl he was in love with was a nice touch; considering the lengths he went to in an attempt to save Alexa, I can buy him cracking a little if a woman he loved was shot in front of him -- and then of course Kronos turns up immediately and offers him an outlet for that pain. I think it is valid to assume that Methos-circa-meeting-Duncan is quite a bit tired; Duncan gave him a positive kind of reboot, and in the AU Kronos has basically the same function in a negative way. I have no idea how well I'm articulating that, though.
So yeah, I think that makes sense?
(if you are interested in reading all the excited flailing and metaing I was doing about Highlander over the course of watching it, go read this comment thread. There's a fair amount of conversation about issues and theories and characterization and all that good stuff.)
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I also don't buy into the thing from the last episode, that Duncan ~brought Methos back~. But hang on, Aria and I have totally talked about this, let me go remind myself what we said.
Right, yes, so I'd said But...to a 5000 year old person, a couple years isn't enough to change who you really are. Methos doesn't become a different person over the course of knowing MacLeod; he's the same person, he just has more motivation to do what's "right" because he respects MacLeod's opinion so much.
And she said,
I think you've basically nailed it. I thought the Watcher girl he was in love with was a nice touch; considering the lengths he went to in an attempt to save Alexa, I can buy him cracking a little if a woman he loved was shot in front of him -- and then of course Kronos turns up immediately and offers him an outlet for that pain. I think it is valid to assume that Methos-circa-meeting-Duncan is quite a bit tired; Duncan gave him a positive kind of reboot, and in the AU Kronos has basically the same function in a negative way. I have no idea how well I'm articulating that, though.
So yeah, I think that makes sense?
(if you are interested in reading all the excited flailing and metaing I was doing about Highlander over the course of watching it, go read this comment thread. There's a fair amount of conversation about issues and theories and characterization and all that good stuff.)