Time's Passage

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This is very rambleish, so bear with me.

Specifically, I was thinking this in regards to Methos as I was watching the most excellent vid "And As for You" by killabeez, but it applies to Highlander in general. The passage of time. How must it be to not see someone for more than two thousand years, then they're back in your life? Are Immortal's brains different in how they perceive and deal with the passage of time? Would a century seems like a few months? Do they have a more vivid and complete memory system than we do? Methos says his earliest memories are barely there anymore, assuming he's telling the truth of course, so there must be some sort of max for them. So he has vivid memories of four thousand years ago, but not five?

Just for myself, trying to remember people that I was close to twenty five years ago, but haven't seen since, my memory is fairly hazy. But for Immortals, it seems that seeing someone millennia later is like they just said goodbye last week.

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I think they do forget.

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Of course, I have no real proof for that, as the only Immie whose memories we got to see a lot of was Duncan, who in immortal terms isn't all that old yet. But yeah, I believe Methos when he says he's forgotten his earliest memories - he appears, pardon the pun, 'timeless' to me, in the sense of someone who is not rooted in any particular time anymore but instead is sort of at home in any time or place - but only ever 'sort of at home'.

Then again, I'm probably projecting like crazy here. *g*

Anyway... as for why his relationship with Kronos still seems so fresh despite of the length of the intervening time: I think we must not forget that Methos spent a fifth of his rather extraordinarly long lifespan with Kronos. I'm not sure he'd remember any random immie from 3000 years ago. I even believe him when he claims not to remember Cassandra during their first encounter in Mac's dojo - at least in the first moment. I'm sure recognition comes after a couple of seconds, but the surprise at the very first moment of being confronted by her is real, I'd be (almost) willing to bet.