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]

Comments

[layla-aaron.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* Yeah, count me in the ticked off at Duncan circle. I think the Horsemen eps were the eps that opened my eyes to how black and white Duncan's view of the world was. While Methos saw and accepted that life is in shades of gray, Duncan was unwilling to accept that. Never mind some of his own experiences and actions he might have taken, he still held everyone up to his own idealistic standard, a standard he himself didn't always follow.

I'll also admit that I did like to see the darker side to Methos. To learn that this person who chose to survive by taking on a meeker demeanor and to fly under the radar used to be flagrant in showing what he was capable of doing, used to use his immortality for immense personal gain, was quite enlightening. I was a Methos girl through and through, and am now happy to be a Horsemen girl. :D

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

It's a recurring theme for the later series, the idea that absolutes are dangerous beliefs. Poor Duncan though tries to hold both himself and everyone else to an unrealistic standard, you could call it growing pains as he realises the world isn't that simple.

He really doesn't like havng his world view altered though. Makes you wonder about all the evil immortals he's killed and whether they could have been redeemed.

[layla-aaron.livejournal.com]

He really doesn't like havng his world view altered though. Makes you wonder about all the evil immortals he's killed and whether they could have been redeemed.

And does this create a sense of guilt that is too much for him to contemplate. Given how he reacts to killing Richie, I think the thought of trying to figure out which evil ones could have been redeemed would have created such a wash of guilt within Duncan that he couldn't have handled it.