This is something people always seem to forget: METHOS WAS DEATH. "Just because I don't like to kill, doesn't mean I can't."
This is not a man who is out of shape or out of training. He is smart, fast and mean. He will use any advantage to survive including dumping both himself and his opponent into the Seine. He has no code of honor, no sense of chivalry and no sentimentality to cloud his judgment. He is the original hardass.
Methos also hides in plain sight. He deliberately allows his opponents to underestimate him. He is a walking, talking lie. He knew that Keane would misjudge him. He counted on Keane misjudging him. And your comment below has a ring of truth to it. Keane was very like MacLeod and Methos was prepared to use that against him.
Methos is a walking arsenal. He had three weapons on him that day *that we saw*: his sword, a main gauche and a silenced semiautomatic pistol. He was fully prepared to take Keane and would have done if MacLeod hadn't stopped him. He had calculated the risks and found them to be minimal. If you watch the fight with Keane, you'll see that Methos' body language shows complete confidence. Watch the fight with Morgan Walker in "Indiscretions" and you'll see something a bit different. Walker was much larger than Methos and was just hammering away at him so Methos electrocuted them both. Smart move because then it was a matter of who revived first and got to his sword first that decided who won. Now that was the greater risk.
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Re: Why?
Date: 2006-06-07 06:31 pm (UTC)From:This is not a man who is out of shape or out of training. He is smart, fast and mean. He will use any advantage to survive including dumping both himself and his opponent into the Seine. He has no code of honor, no sense of chivalry and no sentimentality to cloud his judgment. He is the original hardass.
Methos also hides in plain sight. He deliberately allows his opponents to underestimate him. He is a walking, talking lie. He knew that Keane would misjudge him. He counted on Keane misjudging him. And your comment below has a ring of truth to it. Keane was very like MacLeod and Methos was prepared to use that against him.
Methos is a walking arsenal. He had three weapons on him that day *that we saw*: his sword, a main gauche and a silenced semiautomatic pistol. He was fully prepared to take Keane and would have done if MacLeod hadn't stopped him. He had calculated the risks and found them to be minimal. If you watch the fight with Keane, you'll see that Methos' body language shows complete confidence. Watch the fight with Morgan Walker in "Indiscretions" and you'll see something a bit different. Walker was much larger than Methos and was just hammering away at him so Methos electrocuted them both. Smart move because then it was a matter of who revived first and got to his sword first that decided who won. Now that was the greater risk.
Stephen Keane was easy and Methos knew it.