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two things, mildly useless
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.
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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waitwaitwait- HOW is John Sheppard not kick-ass? I DEEPLY DISAGREE and would picspam evidence if I had more time.
I was also noticing that Elizabeth Burke fits very few of these. Then started thinking about if it turns out she DOES. I vote for El being a magical morally ambiguous alien who SAVES THE WORLD.
Also, re: Methos, I know basically nothing about him except he's awesome and immortal, and that I gleaned because I read an HP fic this one time where Harry had gone off to university after Hogwarts and Methos ended up being his college professor... I think he ended up being a Slash Dragon kinda character and helped Harry work out his Relationship Issues with someone. Anyway, he was badass.
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Moving on.
Waaaay too much time on my hands. /o\ I am fairly sure, though, that John Sheppard remains un-kickass. I mean, yes, he will recklessly endanger his life at the drop of a hat, but Ronon and Teyla can both kick his pansy ass. So there. (I love him because he's a dorkface that Teyla can kick all around a mat, okay?)
sdkld I WANT EL THE MAGICAL MORALLY AMBIGUOUS ALIEN WHO SAVES THE WORLD. I can't even cope with how awesome that would be.
Re: Methos -- okay. Well, one, he looks like what Colin Morgan might look like if he grew up really hot. Less shallowly, okay, Methos is 5000 years old, claims that he can't actually remember who he originally was anymore because everything gets hazy after a while, is a complete moral relativist by modern standards, and for most of the 1990s he masquerades as an unassuming cute grad student called Adam Pierson (who is, in fact, researching Methos; he makes sure to never find himself). He claims to be out for his own self-interest and historically just lies low and stays out of trouble, but either his brain broke and he fell in love with the series' heroic protagonist, or else he's just very good at lying to himself (...both) but he spends a lot of time saving the world and also Duncan MacLaod's ass. Three or four thousand years ago he was Death on a horse, but that's ancient history and he's not very comfortable with people making a fuss about it. BASICALLY I LOVE HIM.
...Yeah, this is what happens when you tell me you know nothing about one of my favourite characters ever. Oops. :D?
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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
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(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.)