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Okay, I just rewatched Comes a Horseman and I seriously CANNOT BREATHE. I am HYPERVENTILATING over here because of the scorching hotness of Methos.
Maybe it's the DVD high quality. Maybe it's the fact that I haven't really rewatched it in awhile. The Horsemen were always my favorite Highlander episodes, but OMG. It's hitting me so hard this time.
I love how the writers totally got everyone to act out their little BDSM fantasies. I cannot *believe* this was on regular cable and I saw it at like age TWELVE because it is TOTAL PORN. It has some semblance of a "plot" like most porn nowadays (Hi, we're the Four Horsemen. We kill people. And rape people. Sometimes at the same time. Hi.) but then it goes straight into the PORN (okay we mostly don't see it, but it's THERE). I wonder if the actors felt silly or if they got into playing their characters and talked about "motivation" and did research on the Bronze Age. (Wow, so not going to the method-acting RPS place.)
OMG METHOS. HIS NECK ON KRONOS'S SWORD. HIS COLLARBONE WHEN MAC SHOVES HIM UP AGAINST THE CAR. HIS CUFFS WHEN HE SETS THE FIRE. I REALLY HAVE TO BREATHE SOON.
But...just fucking *guh*.
I think my neighbors might be mad at me because it's like midnight and every two seconds (after I fast-forward through the boring Mac and Cass parts) I say OH MY GOD! - HOT! - THEY'RE HAVING! - SEX! SEX!
Kronos! Hello. WOW. Does anyone have the obvious cut scene where Kronos plays with the chains and makes Methos do obscene sexual acts with Kronos's dagger still on his neck because HI I *REALLY* WANT TO SEE THAT.
I used to read a few Methos slave fics only for the character development (no, really), but I am *getting* where that kink comes from now.
THINGS I LOVE DEARLY:
1. The stabbing! (With the amazingly holeless shirt afterwards. Does that mean that Kronos undressed Methos while he was dead? NECROPHILIA AHOY!)
2. And then Methos *spreading his legs* on the floor and being all submissive because he wants to live which is an inversion of how he was with Cassandra and OMG I LOVE THE WRITERS FOR GIVING US DOM!METHOS AND SUB!METHOS IN ONE EPISODE.
3. The BFLG! Of course! His luminous blueness lights up my life. Like Jesus. With...a skull mask. (::Tries *really hard* not to go to the Jesus/Methos desert xover place:: Mmm. Visiting Roman dignitary Methos.)
4. THE BLOOD HAND BROTHER SEX! *How* could I forget that? The *clasping* and *vowing* and in a lot of tribal cultures (which they both came from) they're totally performing a marriage ceremony. Theirloveissoboundbyblood!
5. Of course the break-up. Because I have a huge kink for the revelation of some character's sekrit awesome past or abilities or whatever to formerly complacent and underestimating acquaintances.
Things I didn't like:
1. Mac seems even more unappealing this time. He is so swarthy and stalwart. Ick. I do think Adrian handled the break-up really well, but Mac is still a hypocritical asshole, vowing to kill Methos when at the beginning of the episode they were all best friends. NOT THAT THAT'S A TREND WITH MAC OR ANYTHING.
2. Cassandra. 'Nuff said.
3. Kronos saying to Cassandra, "Make love with me before I kill you." Because unless he's taunting her for her romantic aspirations (with Methos 4000 years ago? With Duncan (um...he has spies)? Maybe?), he would never say the words "make love" to describe sex. And he would never use them in that context. But yeah, maybe trying to throw her off balance is all I can think of - it's just such an odd thing to hear Kronos say. I would imagine him using much more vulgar words. But maybe censors? (CENSORS: Raping - okay! Murdering - okay! Bad words - HECK NO THERE ARE CHILDREN IN THE AUDIENCE.) And even though Cassandra actually *is* a witch, Kronos still sounded funny saying it because it's so coded nowadays as being the word you say when the censors won't let you say bitch.
I totally quoted dialogue along with everyone because I am a dork.
And answered of course the obligatory:
METHOS: I am Methos. You live to serve me.
ME: OKAY YES SIR.
METHOS: Never forget that.
ME: I WON'T. EVER. DON'T WORRY.
JUST WAIT TILL I REWATCH REVELATIONS 6:8 HI FANDOM GETS ME TO MEMORIZE BIBLE VERSES.
Maybe it's the DVD high quality. Maybe it's the fact that I haven't really rewatched it in awhile. The Horsemen were always my favorite Highlander episodes, but OMG. It's hitting me so hard this time.
I love how the writers totally got everyone to act out their little BDSM fantasies. I cannot *believe* this was on regular cable and I saw it at like age TWELVE because it is TOTAL PORN. It has some semblance of a "plot" like most porn nowadays (Hi, we're the Four Horsemen. We kill people. And rape people. Sometimes at the same time. Hi.) but then it goes straight into the PORN (okay we mostly don't see it, but it's THERE). I wonder if the actors felt silly or if they got into playing their characters and talked about "motivation" and did research on the Bronze Age. (Wow, so not going to the method-acting RPS place.)
OMG METHOS. HIS NECK ON KRONOS'S SWORD. HIS COLLARBONE WHEN MAC SHOVES HIM UP AGAINST THE CAR. HIS CUFFS WHEN HE SETS THE FIRE. I REALLY HAVE TO BREATHE SOON.
But...just fucking *guh*.
I think my neighbors might be mad at me because it's like midnight and every two seconds (after I fast-forward through the boring Mac and Cass parts) I say OH MY GOD! - HOT! - THEY'RE HAVING! - SEX! SEX!
Kronos! Hello. WOW. Does anyone have the obvious cut scene where Kronos plays with the chains and makes Methos do obscene sexual acts with Kronos's dagger still on his neck because HI I *REALLY* WANT TO SEE THAT.
I used to read a few Methos slave fics only for the character development (no, really), but I am *getting* where that kink comes from now.
THINGS I LOVE DEARLY:
1. The stabbing! (With the amazingly holeless shirt afterwards. Does that mean that Kronos undressed Methos while he was dead? NECROPHILIA AHOY!)
2. And then Methos *spreading his legs* on the floor and being all submissive because he wants to live which is an inversion of how he was with Cassandra and OMG I LOVE THE WRITERS FOR GIVING US DOM!METHOS AND SUB!METHOS IN ONE EPISODE.
3. The BFLG! Of course! His luminous blueness lights up my life. Like Jesus. With...a skull mask. (::Tries *really hard* not to go to the Jesus/Methos desert xover place:: Mmm. Visiting Roman dignitary Methos.)
4. THE BLOOD HAND BROTHER SEX! *How* could I forget that? The *clasping* and *vowing* and in a lot of tribal cultures (which they both came from) they're totally performing a marriage ceremony. Theirloveissoboundbyblood!
5. Of course the break-up. Because I have a huge kink for the revelation of some character's sekrit awesome past or abilities or whatever to formerly complacent and underestimating acquaintances.
Things I didn't like:
1. Mac seems even more unappealing this time. He is so swarthy and stalwart. Ick. I do think Adrian handled the break-up really well, but Mac is still a hypocritical asshole, vowing to kill Methos when at the beginning of the episode they were all best friends. NOT THAT THAT'S A TREND WITH MAC OR ANYTHING.
2. Cassandra. 'Nuff said.
3. Kronos saying to Cassandra, "Make love with me before I kill you." Because unless he's taunting her for her romantic aspirations (with Methos 4000 years ago? With Duncan (um...he has spies)? Maybe?), he would never say the words "make love" to describe sex. And he would never use them in that context. But yeah, maybe trying to throw her off balance is all I can think of - it's just such an odd thing to hear Kronos say. I would imagine him using much more vulgar words. But maybe censors? (CENSORS: Raping - okay! Murdering - okay! Bad words - HECK NO THERE ARE CHILDREN IN THE AUDIENCE.) And even though Cassandra actually *is* a witch, Kronos still sounded funny saying it because it's so coded nowadays as being the word you say when the censors won't let you say bitch.
I totally quoted dialogue along with everyone because I am a dork.
And answered of course the obligatory:
METHOS: I am Methos. You live to serve me.
ME: OKAY YES SIR.
METHOS: Never forget that.
ME: I WON'T. EVER. DON'T WORRY.
JUST WAIT TILL I REWATCH REVELATIONS 6:8 HI FANDOM GETS ME TO MEMORIZE BIBLE VERSES.