What is wrong with me?
May. 9th, 2004 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanithryudoSee, I like Highlander. I've seen a couple of episodes of the series and read quite a few transcripts of a lot of the eps I haven't seen. But I haven't seen any of the movies after the first one, and even with the first one, I only have very dim and misty memories of seeing snippets of it when it was showing on TV (not too surprising, since it only came out a few years after I was born, after all).
That I like Methos is no great surprise to myself. I've seen quite a few episodes with him in it. He's handsomely sexy with a wicked tongue and a killer accent. What's not to like?
On the other hand... there's Connor MacLeod. I still don't quite understand how he came to be my second favorite character, since he only appears in the movies and the first episode of the series (which I have not seen). Almost everything I know of him comes from... well, fanon, I guess. Or maybe in particular a handful of Connor-centric writers.
Looking at the his pictures from screenshots of the movies, he's not half as good looking as Duncan. In fact, he's rather... um... plain (homely?) unless it's a distance shot or he smiles just so. I hear that he has a cool accent, but I've never heard it (or have no memory of it, at least). And just about all of my conceptions of his character comes from online sources that I intellectually know are biased.
So why do I seem to have a crush on the character? Is it because of some knee-jerk response to my *dislike* of Duncan, and therefore I reflexively latched onto the other official "Highlander"? Is it because, according to fanon characterizations, Connor's personality is more like Methos than Duncan?
I dunno... all I know is that I now have 35 icon bases for the guy. *facepalm*
Well, the title of this entry is sort of a rhetorical question. But if anyone thinks they have the answer to this particular... perculiarity of mine, feel free to tell me.
That I like Methos is no great surprise to myself. I've seen quite a few episodes with him in it. He's handsomely sexy with a wicked tongue and a killer accent. What's not to like?
On the other hand... there's Connor MacLeod. I still don't quite understand how he came to be my second favorite character, since he only appears in the movies and the first episode of the series (which I have not seen). Almost everything I know of him comes from... well, fanon, I guess. Or maybe in particular a handful of Connor-centric writers.
Looking at the his pictures from screenshots of the movies, he's not half as good looking as Duncan. In fact, he's rather... um... plain (homely?) unless it's a distance shot or he smiles just so. I hear that he has a cool accent, but I've never heard it (or have no memory of it, at least). And just about all of my conceptions of his character comes from online sources that I intellectually know are biased.
So why do I seem to have a crush on the character? Is it because of some knee-jerk response to my *dislike* of Duncan, and therefore I reflexively latched onto the other official "Highlander"? Is it because, according to fanon characterizations, Connor's personality is more like Methos than Duncan?
I dunno... all I know is that I now have 35 icon bases for the guy. *facepalm*
Well, the title of this entry is sort of a rhetorical question. But if anyone thinks they have the answer to this particular... perculiarity of mine, feel free to tell me.
