two things, mildly useless

[aria]

1.

Draw your own conclusions, because I sure as hell don't know what mine are yet.

2. I have a steadily more burning desire to write Highlander fic. Goddammit. At least Doctor Who has cured me of my conviction that I need to have a comprehensive knowledge of the canon before I write in the universe? I'm still pretty sure, though, that by "write Highlander fic" I mean "write hilarious fic about how Methos is four millennia older than the Doctor, so there." I don't even know, guys.

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Re: jumping in randomly to say this

[aria]

*cracks up* Well, so far my experience with Highlander fandom is that [a] a lot of it is awesome, but [b] it is very old school, by which I mean that most of it was written in the late 90s and the first half of the 2000s (...do any of us actually know what the hell this last decade was called??) so the aesthetic is different from that of active current fandoms. Which is fine, but does mean I'm hitting the back button a bit more often than I wish I was, because my standards are skewed differently.

As to the actual source material, at least the way I did it, it's not a huge drain on your time. I mean, yes, Highlander is a six season show, but I did The Methos Watchthrough, and that's twenty episodes + whatever bit of wiki reading needs to be done to fill in the gaps between.

Which is not me helpfully letting you stay out of this fandom! But Methos is worth it. XD

Re: jumping in randomly to say this

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

LALALALALALA *fingers in ears* *bookmarks Methos Watchthrough anyways* Later. I will watch it later, when I have the bandwidth and the time.

(the 2000s.... well, I think I generally hear them referred to as such, actually. Though that's awkward since it can also refer to the century or the millenium. The other thing I've heard is the "noughties", but I'm pretty sure that one's only suggested facetiously. There's no good name for it! Although -- what did people call the first decade of the 1900s? Perhaps we should take a cue from that, whatever it was.)