No Matter How Many Times.....

[ithildin]

...I watch Revelations 6:8, the Slinky Quickening never fails to amuse me. Talk about unintentional humour in what was supposed to be a dramatic moment.

And no matter how many times I watch the two Horsemen eps, I still come away totally ticked off at Duncan.

Some things are eternal [g]

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[panthology.livejournal.com]

I spend half the series ticked off at Duncan. I'm all for a flawed hero, but ...

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, but those two *really* wind me up!

[panthology.livejournal.com]

Methos (as always) put it best; "You are such a pain in the arse ... "

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

You know, when I finally seduced my best friend to watch HL some months ago, she was so pissed off at MacLeod after Horsemen&FUOT eps, that she called me at midnight to share her anger:).

[panthology.livejournal.com]

I can sure imagine that!

The Messenger is another one that gets my anti-Dunky rage happening.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oh? Do tell!

[panthology.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm biased because Culbraith is one of my favourite Immies and played by one of my favourite actors, but -

Duncan gets a mad-on against Culbraith because he doesn't help Duncan's buddy Jeffrey (Culbraith having just found out his wife and kids got burned alive, which does tend to mess a man up).

Duncan backs up his idea of Culbraith being an evil bastard with the fact that Culbraith then went around slaughtering any Union soldier he could get his hands on.

Um, Dunc? Isn't that exactly what you did to the English a while back?

That's aside from the 'hello, Richie could get his head lopped off here and you're nancing about worrying about your integrity' thing.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I hadn't looked at it like that before, the parallel between the aftermath of Culloden and Culbraith's reaction to his family's death.

all these years later and you get to see something new!

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

I was rather mad at Mac in this ep because he again jumped to conclusions with Methos, and after that he made him open his name to Richie, who maybe loyal but he _is_ young and careless. And of course an idea of 'thanks' and 'sorry' doesn't even cross his mind :).

[panthology.livejournal.com]

Mac can be amazingly blinkered, especially for a man who's 400 and something years old. He leaps instantly to a conclusion, builds his case for it and ignores anything that might counter his crusade.

Returning to Culbraith again, it doesn't occur to Duncan to wonder why a previously reasonable and humane soldier suddenly became a rat-bastard overnight. Noooo, just stamp and flail and swear revenge!

(Though to be fair, having to snap your buddy's neck so he doesn't suffer a slow painful death can also mess a man up.)

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, maybe he wouldn't be the 'Duncan MacLeod of clan Macleod'(TM) otherwise:)

[panthology.livejournal.com]

True! Very true!

They can only work with what the character is given ;}