I actually love that, but that doesn't make it easy, especially because we don't have the long view on it. The most telling thing Methos says, possibly ever, is when, in the church in Revelation 6:8, Duncan asks why Methos lied about who he was, and Methos responds, "I have been many things, MacLeod."
Yes, exactly! I think one of the most fascinating things about Methos, and one of the things that has allowed him to live so long relatively sanely, is that he has been so many different things, and yet he's been Methos all along too. I take his side a lot of the time, at least against Duncan's more blatant judginess, but Horseman Methos wasn't a good guy to know. I think Methos is mostly a good guy now, and probably has been for a while (...for certain values of good guy), but I can live with the fact that he hasn't always been. 5000 years is a whole hell of a lot of past.
I so wish the show had given Methos and Cassandra some sort of closure, because I really really wanted to see it. It was a bold thing for the show to do, to introduce a truly loathsome, disturbing past for a loved character, and to have someone there saying "this is what you did to me, and I am still fucked up because of it." Cassandra would be so much more interesting as a character if she was allowed to be something other than angry and fucked up, and sadly there's a real minority of fic that explores that.
Actually, that ... is one of the things I am addressing in the fic I am writing right now. :D
\o/ I'm always interested in people's explanations for pre-immortals!
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Yes, exactly! I think one of the most fascinating things about Methos, and one of the things that has allowed him to live so long relatively sanely, is that he has been so many different things, and yet he's been Methos all along too. I take his side a lot of the time, at least against Duncan's more blatant judginess, but Horseman Methos wasn't a good guy to know. I think Methos is mostly a good guy now, and probably has been for a while (...for certain values of good guy), but I can live with the fact that he hasn't always been. 5000 years is a whole hell of a lot of past.
I so wish the show had given Methos and Cassandra some sort of closure, because I really really wanted to see it. It was a bold thing for the show to do, to introduce a truly loathsome, disturbing past for a loved character, and to have someone there saying "this is what you did to me, and I am still fucked up because of it." Cassandra would be so much more interesting as a character if she was allowed to be something other than angry and fucked up, and sadly there's a real minority of fic that explores that.
Actually, that ... is one of the things I am addressing in the fic I am writing right now. :D
\o/ I'm always interested in people's explanations for pre-immortals!