'Till Death'

[ithildin]

A day early, but what the heck? I love this episode, well, to death! So I figured it deserved an extra day of discussion.

Welcome to the eighth installment of Methos Episode Discussion. You can find the last one for 'Through a Glass, Darkly' here. All episode discussion links can be found over on the sidebar.

Till Death, Air Date: May. 1996

When Gina and Robert de Valicourt met 300 years ago, even Gina's suitors MacLeod and Fitzcaim had to admit they were destined for each other. Each century, as Robert and Gina renewed their wedding vows before their friends and fellow Immortals, their love grew stronger. But now their marriage is on the rocks. MacLeod decides it's up to him to reunite the once happy couple, and he enlists a very unwilling accomplice in his cunning plan. ~ via tv.com

Next up will be Judgement Day. Look for it on Monday.

Quotes below the curtain






Methos: The apartment I'm renting is being sold. I hate moving.
Duncan: Then move into a hotel.
Methos: I wouldn't live in any hotel Adam Pierson could afford.
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Gina: It's over - the son of a bitch (Methos) is dead.
Duncan: No, no! It was all a joke it...
(Methos pops up on the barge)
Duncan: Not funny!
Methos: Oh I don't know, pretty funny from here.
Duncan: Oh yeah? Maybe I should take your head.
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MacLeod: With friends like you, who needs enemies?
Methos: I was just thinking the same thing!
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Methos: I knew it. I knew it! Getting between a married couple. It's a rule I haven't broken for 2000 years!
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Gina: Maybe we aren't meant to spend three centuries together. I mean...who mates for life? Swans? Geese? Lobster?
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Robert: She's leaving me, Mac. She's really leaving...she divided up the record collection.
MacLeod: The vinyl?!
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Methos: You're not listening to me, I don't give a damn about their marriage.
Duncan: Well I do!
Methos: Is it really that important to you?
Duncan: Yes it's that (bops Methos on the head) important to me.
Methos: All right...I do this for you, and you give me the barge.
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Gina: I gave you the best centuries of my life.
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Methos: (looking at Duncan's CD collection) Opera... opera... opera... opera. A lot of opera here. Better do something about this music. There's no Springsteen, there's no Queen...
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Methos: You're wasting your time. I haven't felt guilt since the eleventh century.

Comments

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

All good questions, and yes, I was definitely imagining something like Duncan's relationship with Amanda.

I think they might set up housekeeping for awhile. But Methos would need many breaks.

What does your subject line refer to?

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Many breaks, yes. My subject line is from The Libertines' song "You're My Waterloo" though I mistyped it. It reminds me a lot of Methos. Here are the full lyrics:

You'll never fumigate the demons
No matter how much you smoke
Just say you love me for three good reasons
And I'll throw you the rope
You don't need it

Cause you are the survivor
Of more than one life
And you're the only lover I had
Who ever slept with a knife

But you're not Judy Garland
Oh just like me
You've never really had a home
Of your own
But I'm not Tony Hancock, baby
Until the day
We stone the crows
We stone the crows

We stone the crows

And you see I've brought you flowers
All collected from the Old Vic stage
Well I've been sitting here for hours, baby
Just chasing these words across the page

Cause you're my Waterloo
Well I'll be your Gypsy Lane
I'm so glad we know just what to do
And exactly, who's to blame

And you're my Waterloo
I'll be your Stanley Park
Well I'm so glad we know just what to do
And no one's left stumbling around
Fumbling around
Tumbling around in the dark
Always in the dark

You're my Waterloo
And I'll be your Calvary
Well I'm so glad we know just what to do
And everyone's gonna be happy
Everyone's gonna be happy
Everyone's gonna be happy
But of course

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that, and yes I can see d/m stuff in it.

About the Amanda/Duncan/Methos thing, have you ever read Carene's Consider the Seahorse (http://www.garret.slashcity.net/carene-seahorse.html)? It is really good. It's an mpreg, but I SWEAR it's good anyway.

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Somone please tell me what an mpreg is? I've seen the term a few times and am klewless -- well, more than usual. :)

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you this, and burst your bubble of innocence, but an mpreg is a story in which a male (m) gets pregnant (preg).

They're mostly icky and feminize the man. But this one is good. :-) Although I should warn you that it does, to a certain extent, feminize Methos. He literally develops female qualities over the course of his pregnancy.

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Ah! Okay, there's one mystery solved :)

Back to editing fic. The neverending chore! Watching 'till Death' reminded me of things I'd wanted to include, but forgot to. So much for the story being finished.

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

mpreg - male pregnancy. It's defintely on the crack side of the fic in any fandom, but people have written some good ones. ^^

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

^_^ The Libertines are generally good for D/M: "what became of the likely lads/what became of the dreams we had/what became of forever"

And I've read that fic! It has one of my favourite lines in it:
"Just wait, MacLeod," Methos said. "She'll do some tests and then you'll have your proof. You can't argue with science." *g*

Re: and you're the lover I had who ever slept with a knife

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's a good one. She's a really good writer.

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

*blink*

*blinks some more*

That has to be one of the weirdest mpregs I've ever read. And they're all weird. Kind of good but.. weird.

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Yes, weird, but, I don't know, somehow defensible. I think what I like best about it is Duncan's disgust at Methos's condition and how he eventually comes around; Methos's hurt at being rejected by Duncan, and Amanda's machinations to repair the rift.

Also, that they are the three parents of the baby, in a way.