Highlander
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(from 2008 Legendary Heroes Collector's Edition)
*My apologies to anyone whose name I have misspelled. Corrections are welcomed.*
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[Methos & David Abramowitz walk along a beach together.]
David Abramowitz: [voice-over] Hi, this is David Abramowitz. Today I've had the opportunity of interviewing the illustrious Methos, the oldest Immortal. We talked about his life, his loves, his hopes, and his dreams. He's a remarkable character, as you'll soon see. He's a man of mystery, a man of passion, a man of courage, with a great sense of humor. How has he survived for this five thousand years and what will tomorrow bring? I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. |
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David Abramowitz - Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're here with the famed Methos. I'd like to thank you for agreeing to this precedent-making interview. All the world will be grateful to hear about their favorite five-thousand-year-old man.
Methos - I have a lot of stories to tell. David Abramowitz - I'd like to begin with a rather tabloid question. I understand that you've recently broken off your engagement. Would you like to comment about it? Methos - Uh, no, I absolutely would not. David Abramowitz - Why have you agreed to this interview? Methos - I have a DVD coming out and if the time I spent with Andy Warhol taught me anything, it was the importance and power of publicity. David Abramowitz - Aren't you afraid that people will know of you and come seeking your head? Methos - I'm fairly adept at disappearing. David Abramowitz - I guess that's always been the case. We have a question from one of your fans. Her name is Nancy Elliott from Sydney, Australia: Where were you born? Methos - [sighs] Places change their name so much. I was born in a place called Uruk which... how would you know it...? It's between the Tigris and the Euphrates in the fertile triangle. You would-- you might know it as Mesopotamia, you might know it as Iraq. My mother was a dancer. She was a dancer in the king's court. She married very much below her station. My father, I think, was a goat herd. I never really knew him. He died when I was just a few years old. I was raised by women, but, uh, we were in a settlement there. We were not nomadic. And I remember those days very fondly. David Abramowitz - Do you also remember the circumstances of your first death? Methos - I have told the story of my first death many times. I've told many different versions of the story of my first death, but because you seem such a nice guy, I'm gonna tell you the truth. The true story of how I first died is a story of great epic drama. I was shoveling camel dung for the family fires and I slipped on a large turd, fell, and was stamped on by a huge male camel, and it crushed my skull. I lost consciousness immediately, didn't realize I died till I came back to life to find the camel's head six inches away from mine, eating its own poo. It's not commonly known, but camels eat their own droppings. That is the true story of how I first died. David Abramowitz - It's a remarkable answer. Not one I would have suspected. Now on a personal question-- Methos - Mm-hm. Careful. David Abramowitz - --from Nancy again. No, I'm very careful. This is just-- What aspects of your personality do you like and which do you not? Methos - I... I most like my adaptability. I most despise my lack of constancy. David Abramowitz - Aren't those the same things? Methos - How perceptive. David Abramowitz - Harlan Finn of Portland, Oregon, wants to know: You've seen the evolution and dissolution of so many societies and cultures as civilization has advanced. What comes to mind when you look back fifty centuries of human knowledge and culture? What emotions are evoked? How much do you remember? What was it like to live through so much change? Methos - There is a terrible sameness about human history. Nothing changes except the tools. We repeat the same stories, the same patents over and over again. [sighs] I remember everything. I try to forget everything. I think we learn very little. I think we never learn the lessons. David Abramowitz - On the subject of history, from John Faris in Riverside, California: Was there any event in history in which you played a major part? Something that changed or influenced or rewrote human history? Methos - No. David Abramowitz - Just... no? Methos - No. David Abramowitz - Now a more up-to-date question. |
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Judy Glazer:
I'm Judy Glazer from Bothell, Washington. Why did you stay in your flat when Duncan Macleod came looking for Methos? |
Adam Pierson's apartment(3x16: Methos)Methos - Have a beer. [tosses DM a can] Mi casa es su casa. DM - [looks at can of beer in his hand, then back at Methos, shocked] Methos? [Methos looks down briefly in a nod of acknowledgment, then back at DM with a little smirk.] |
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Methos:
What you have to understand... is that we are very much like you. It's just the... the timescale is greater. We have times where it's just tough to go on. |
Quay near barge(3x16: Methos)Methos - It is about passion and hate. I don't have the fire. You do. You want Kalas. [lifts DM's sword arm so katana is resting against his neck] Live, Highlander. Grow stronger... Fight another day. |
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Methos - And some days you just don't think you can make it and that feeling can go on sometimes for decades, sometimes for centuries, and I was tired. I didn't think I could carry on.
David Abramowitz - Kay Chavez from Mexico wants to know: What was your favorite occupation and what was your least favorite occupation? Methos - My favorite occupation was... I liked being a doctor. David Abramowitz - Why? |
Flashback - New Orleans, 1808 - Walker's house, night(6x11: Indiscretions)Methos - I'll be looking in on him again tomorrow. Charlotte - Benjamin, why do you look after slaves? Not many doctors do. Methos - Perhaps I was one in a previous life. Methos - Charlotte, are you flirting with me? Charlotte - Yes. Is that all right? Methos - It's lovely. [kisses her, embraces her, kisses her neck] |
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Methos - I particularly like being a gynecologist.
David Abramowitz - You're joking, right? Methos - I always wanted to be an astronaut -- that was really what I would have liked to have done. David Abramowitz - You know, sometimes I think you're answering these questions and sometimes I think you're playing. Methos - I'm always answering the questions. I want you to know that so long as you keep off the tabloid stuff, I will tell you the truth. David Abramowitz - Okay. And your least favorite occupation? Methos - My least favorite occ-- [hears faint ringtone offscreen] I was an engineer for Verizon Wireless for a while. [David Abramowitz laughs.] David Abramowitz - By saying you want to be an astronaut... Um, how long have you wanted to be an astronaut? Methos - Oh, for a thousand years. Da Vinci and I sat talking about that way, way back, long into the night. We drank so much Chianti, I still can't touch that stuff. David Abramowitz - Were you around when-- you know, they say the pyramids and Stonehenge and-- You weren't around then when-- you know, were those aliens or did cultures build them or-- Methos - Alien conspiracies? [gives him a look] No. No. Humans. Just people. Just people with good ideas and good organizational skills. David Abramowitz - And what was your least favorite occupation. Methos - My least favorite occupation was shoveling camel dung. Killed me. |
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Karen Heimdal:
Hi, I'm Karen Heimdal from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. While watching "Timeless", I realized that Methos has such affection and compassion for a select few while caring next to nothing about most and being downright cruel to many in the Horsemen days. Then I thought, we all exhibit the same behavior towards people and even more so towards animals. We hunt them, we slaughter them, yet some we take into our homes and love them. So my question is "What's the difference? How do we decide who matters?" |
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Methos - I don't think you do decide. If my long, long life has taught me anything, it's to live in the moment, and some people are different, some animals are different. Let me tell you a story about the first time I met Kronos. It was... it was in a bar in Egypt and it was the first time I'd ever met an Immortal and not fought with them, and it was because I recognized him, he recognized me -- there was a connection that was undeniable and you can't fake that. It's there or it is not there.
David Abramowitz - But Kronos was dark and evil. Methos - [softly] Yes. And I am dark and evil too. David Abramowitz - Allison Bilat from Melbourne, Australia, wants to know: What was it like being one of the legendary Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? How did you become one and what eventually made you want out? Methos - You cannot imagine that kind of power, and you cannot imagine the seduction of that power. It was awesome. It was everything in the world. |
Flashback - The Bronze Age - Horsemen's camp(5x11: Comes a Horseman)Cass - --my people -- take me to them! Methos - You want to see them? Cass - Yes. Methos - There they are. [points to skulls adorning nearby tent] Cass - You killed them? All of them? Methos - Including you. |
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David Abramowitz - Yet you left.
Methos - It was also inhuman, and I found I had a conscience. In the end, it sickened me, like too much chocolate. David Abramowitz - Does it still sicken you? Methos - Yes, it does. |
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Annie Christie:
Hi, my name is Annie Christie from Sacramento, California. My question for Methos is "What is your favorite place in the world and why?" |
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Methos - There is, in... what do you call it... Turkey. In southern Turkey, there is... there is a tiny settlement on a rocky outcrop. The Greeks settled it, the Romans, there were remains of so many different cultures there. And I-- I lived there for ten years with a... with a girl cal-- [gets emotional] Uh, I don't want to answer that question. Can we move on, please?
David Abramowitz - Sure, there's no way-- I'd be a bad interviewer if I didn't at least try again. Methos - Will you ask me another, please? David Abramowitz - So another question from Annie. |
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Annie Christie:
Why did you study medicine? |
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Methos:
I had a lot of time to kill. |
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Annie Christie:
What attracts you in a friend? |
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Methos:
Loyalty. |
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Annie Christie:
What attracts you in a woman? |
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Methos:
Curiosity. |
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Annie Christie:
And were all of your wives similar in some way? |
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Methos:
With all of them there was a moment when they take my hand on a street or just touch my face, and I would look into their eyes and there would be a look that said "There is nowhere in the world that I would rather be at this moment than here with you." |
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Carmel Macpherson:
My name is Carmel Macpherson from Sydney, Australia. You talk about Duncan MacLeod, Methos, being too important to lose, and you turn up in a lot of places that Duncan MacLeod is, so what is the nature of your relationship with Duncan MacLeod? |
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Methos - Duncan is a very interesting man... because the balance is right in him. The heroic qualities, the qualities of leadership, strength, and talent, and understanding of what is the right thing to do, but what makes him special in all the Immortals that I've known is his incorruptibility.
David Abramowitz - Society has had many views of sexual behavior -- who one chooses to partner with. Have you had... relations with... various sexes? Methos - [gives him a knowing look] The answer to your question is "Duncan is not my type." David Abramowitz - Kathy Butterfield from Ketchum, Idaho, would like to know: Do you ever pay your tabs at Joe's? Methos - I ALWAYS pay my tab at Joe-- He is such a liar! David Abramowitz - Now we have another question. Kathy Butterfield would like to know where you were during the prosecution of the Albigensian heresy? Methos - You are such an interesting sub-species, you know, the things that fascinate you about all the great stories that have happened in the time that I've been on the planet. The Albigensian conspiracy. This was in Provence, Languedoc area of southern France where there were-- They were the hippies of the 11th and 12th century. They believed in the dualism-- the god of the body and the god of the soul, which of course put them up against Pope Innocent the Third, who was not a very pleasant piece of work, and he manipulated this with the king of France in the north in Paris. There was an interminable war that went on and on, which was all just about a land grab for the north and the destruction of this wonderful culture in the south, and I spent most of the time on the beach. |
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Derek May:
Hello, Methos, it's Derek in Santa Antonio, Texas. I'd like to know: When did you first learn about the Watchers and how did you get involved? |
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Methos:
I was perhaps in my second millennium? It all becomes so cloudy back then. I had the sense that I was being followed, and for three weeks I ran a ridiculous course that made no sense to anybody so that I could be sure that there actually was somebody on my tail, and having proved to myself that there was, I surprised him in a dark alley and asked him what he was doing, and after the second pint of blood leaked out of his veins, he became very talkative, and that's how I discovered the existence of the Watchers as a society. And it was -- to my great shame -- probably another three hundred years before I realized what a great advantage it would be to become part of the society. |
Watcher HQ - library(4x16: Methuselah's Gift)Stern - Looking for something specific? Methos - Just doing some research. Stern - Oh? For whom? Methos - For me. Stern - And you are...? Methos - Adam Pierson. Stern - What do you want with Luther's file, hmm? Methos - I was just doing some checking. I thought, uh, he might have crossed paths with Methos. Stern - He didn't. Methos - Well, as you used to be his Watcher, I guess you should know. Stern - So you'll be finished with this. [reaches for open file] Methos - Uh... Th-There is just one thing. The-- [Stern closes file, picks it up.] The crystals Luther had. I -- I thought we kept them. Stern - They're in the Director's Gallery. |
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David Abramowitz - So was the shame because it took you three hundred years to realize what an advantage it would be, or was the shame for actually using information to get an edge on other Immortals.
Methos - Oh, I have no shame about that. The shame is for my lack of mental alacrity. |
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Derek May:
What I'd like to know is, in five thousand years, you've seen and experienced every facet of humanity, both at its best and at its worst. How do you reconcile the two, both in how you see people and most importantly within yourself? |
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Methos - Jung said that there is shadow inside us, and my experience of all humanity, including myself, is that it's a constant fight between the darkness and the light. Sometimes the darkness wins, sometimes the light, but it is in all of us. [beat] Reconciliation is a very hard word.
David Abramowitz - Now for a few more personal questions. Anything you feel uncomfortable with-- Methos - I won't answer. David Abramowitz - Of course I knew you'd say that. How old were you when you lost your virginity and do you remember the moment after all these years? Methos - [makes a face, laughs awkwardly] Yes, I remember the moment. How old was I? I think I was seven. I might have been eight. Do I remember the moment? Yes, I remember it very clearly. David Abramowitz - [interrupts] Excuse me. You were seven or eight? Methos - Yes. David Abramowitz - Isn't that a little young? Methos - How old were you? David Abramowitz - Oh, this interview is not about me. It's about you, sir. Methos - Yes, I was seven or eight. Is that not common? David Abramowitz - Maybe in Samaria, but not here at the moment, but, so-- Go on, I'm sorry. Methos - I remember... it was not very fulfilling. I remember it didn't last very long, and I remember it took me forty-five minutes to catch the chicken. [They look at each other for a moment, then Abramowitz starts laughing.] David Abramowitz - You know-- Methos - [laughs with him, slapping his leg] I'm sorry. I should credit Cicero for that one. It was a very good story. David Abramowitz - Ah! That leads us directly into another question. Tim Davis from Santa Monica, California, wants to know: Was Cicero funnier than Richard Pryor. Methos - He was pretty funny. David Abramowitz - Did he really tell you the chicken story? Methos - He did tell me the chicken story. He also-- You may not know, he actually coined the phrase 'the secret of good comedy is all about--' Oh, you missed your cue on that one. Yes, he was a very funny man. David Abramowitz - So are you going to answer the question really about how old you were when you lost your virginity? Methos - Would you? David Abramowitz - Okay. Methos - What makes you think that I'm not still a virgin? David Abramowitz - Five thousand years? Methos - For all you know I might just like to watch. David Abramowitz - Denesh Waterwell from Sydney, Australia, asks this question: Having lived for five thousand years, what are your thoughts on God? Methos - I'm no preacher, my friend. My thoughts on God are my own. I have had times of great faith. I have had times of great bleakness. David Abramowitz - And where are you now? Methos - All the great religions of the world have enormous similarities at their start. The people that have the inspiration -- Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad. They were good guys. But faith -- religion -- is practiced by people, and people... people are flawed. They are not perfect. |
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Escalita Santos:
Hello, I'm Escalita Santos from Las Piñas City, Philippines. Do you think you can win the game? |
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Methos - Absolutely. Not only do I think I can, I think I will.
David Abramowitz - Why? [Methos shrugs.] They're bigger. They're stronger. They're faster. Methos - I have seen wonderful fighters, wonderful craftsmen, wonderful tacticians be distracted by a lightning bolt hitting a church steeple, and in that moment of distraction, lose everything. To win the big prize is not about being the strongest or the most skillful. It's about being the luckiest, and lucky is about putting yourself in a position where the dice just might favor you more than the other guy. David Abramowitz - And do they favor you because you cheat? Methos - I have a LOT of experience in loading dice. David Abramowitz - And you feel no guilt about it? Methos - I gave up guilt in the 16th century. David Abramowitz - Except for being one of the Four Horsemen. Methos - I do not feel guilt about the Four Horsemen. My feeling of the Four Horsemen is far more complex than guilt. David Abramowitz - Wanda Bershears has asked: You've said you've had a thousand regrets during your long life. Which one do you regret the most? Which one do you regret the least? And why? Methos - Which one do I regret the least? David Abramowitz - Strange question. Methos - I do not regret killing people. It is not the things that I have done that I regret. It is the things that I did not do that I regret. David Abramowitz - Such as? Methos - I am a man. What I most regret are the women that I did not love. |
Flashback - Switzerland, 1816 - Villa Diodati, bedroom - night(5x17: The Modern Prometheus)Byron - [takes Methos's hand, places it on Mary's chest] Feel her hunger. What is the point of living if we don't taste what life has to offer us? [Byron runs his hand over Mary's body again as she moans in her sleep. Methos gently caresses Mary's neck and the ruffles of her nightgown, then pulls away.] Methos - Enough. [gets up] |
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David Abramowitz - Melissa Madras of Oregon wants to know: How do you choose who you let in and get to know? And what was the deciding factor in closing yourself off and taking care of only you?
Methos - I never choose. I never make a conscious choice about who I will let in. I respond. I try to live every moment as if it were my last. Because I have seen many people pass. I know the things that we have not done when we leave. I know the list is long and you don't get to come back and check things off. Why did I choose to put up the walls? I did not choose. It chose me. It was always inside. David Abramowitz - Mary Lyon wants to know: Besides a sword, what are the three things you are never without? Methos - I am never without a stash of diamonds. They always supersede cash. I am never without a lock-picking kit, and I am never without nose-putty and a false beard. David Abramowitz - Monica Theo Almagro from Rotterdam, Netherlands wants to know: Does saying goodbye to the ones who love you and the ones you love become easier after thousands of years. Methos - No, it becomes harder because it echoes every goodbye you ever had to say. |
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Philippa Chapman:
Hello, I am Philippa Chapman from Glastonbury in Somerset in the United Kingdom. {??} Methos. I hear you once new Christ. I'd love to hear more about that. Please tell me. Thank you. |
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David Abramowitz - The second question was from Sherry Dumire Hamilton of Rochester, New York. She asked: If you could reveal yourself to mortals and talk openly about history that you've witnessed as you're doing right now -- Which I think is just amazing. I have to tell you. -- what would you share about the founding of the world's major religions? Their common roots and the differences that have led to some of the worst conflicts?
Methos - I met Jesus. I met Muhammad. I met Buddha. The thing that is most extraordinary about these people is that there is a quality to their presence in a room that is like a light being on. It is undeniable. Everyone who is present is aware of it. And everyone reflects that light and are bathed in that light. And with every retelling of the story, that light is reflected slightly dimmer and slightly distorted. Just ever-so-tiny are the differences, but over centuries and centuries of retelling by people who do not have the light but are reflecting the light, there can be confusions, there can be misunderstandings. And the conflicts, I think, come because religions are practiced not by people with the light but by people who reflect the light. David Abramowitz - What do you dream about? Methos - I have a recurring dream, and I don't know if it is a memory or if it's real, but I'm asleep in a tent and the flap opens and a man with a beard walks in carrying two rabbits and I fall back to sleep. But the sense that I have is that I fall back to sleep between two people, and I feel their warmth as I'm drifting back out of consciousness. And it may not be a dream, it may be a memory, but it comforts me. David Abramowitz - Have you ever been in therapy? Methos - I spent a lot of time with Freud, I wouldn't have called it therapy. It may have been for HIM. [Methos & Abramowitz BOTH sense 'buzz'. Methos materializes his sword from wherever it was hiding.]
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David Abramowitz:
Hi, I'm David Abramowitz. I'm a showrunner. Sometimes the soul, sometimes the kidney, sometimes the bladder of Highlander. It's been a great pleasure doing this. We have a bunch of questions from fans regarding Methos and the writing of Methos, and I thought I'd try to answer a couple of them. This is from John Farris of Riverside, California. He writes, What were the influences for writing Methos's character? Was there a fictional or non-fictional character person that used to help shape the Methos character? I think if there was a character that I thought of, or we thought of, was the character of Loki from Norse mythology. Loki was kind of pain in the ass and a wise guy, but he was immortal, and he was less than heroic, but he always survived, and he was pretty powerful. Though Methos is slightly more heroic, I wanted to give him that kind of edge, and that was really the kind of character who was kind of Puck, kind of a bad boy, kind of many different things over many years. I think David Tynan also gave great voice to the character the first time we saw him. There weren't many mythical characters like Methos because there weren't many real characters who lived for five thousand years. How did Peter's portrayal of Methos change your image of the character? Peter made the character alive. He made him real. He channeled Methos, and he became easy after that. He was outrageous. He was great, and I would write anything for him. Our next question was from Kay Chavez from Mexico. Are there any Immortals from Mexico? Yes, there are seventeen. The first one was a Toltec. We have another question from Kathleen from Jersey City, New Jersey. I once played there -- piano in a place called the Parakeet Lounge. A bunch of parakeets in a cage. It was really strange. Well, she asks, David, how did Methos know Darius? He certainly knew him well enough to tell Duncan he wasn't perfect. I thought that-- and I know that Methos knew Darius because Methos was around during the fall of Rome time. Darius was twenty-seven hundred years younger than Methos, and he was there when Darius was a bloodthirsty Roman general, orgies, games, whatever, and he knew him before he achieved whatever personal grace he found. What do I have to say about the spirituality or religion of Methos? I think the man has been been around for over five thousand years. He's been many things. He's been a Hindu. He's been a Jew. He's been a Christian. He's been a Muslim. He's been what's ever necessary at the time for him to be in order to survive. You know, Methos is only-- mostly about survival, but he has been through many cycles in his life, as we all have. You're not the same person at twenty as you are at forty-five, or the same person at forty-five, as you are at seventy. And as the world changes, so does Methos, but the core of who he is, is still the young man from Samaria who was poor and needed to fight to survive. Roberta in Boston, Massachusetts. Given Methos's five thousand years of history, if you could have written a flashback story with Methos as any religious or historical figure, or as a friend or traveler with such a person, who would it be and why? Methos didn't have many historical flashbacks because he wasn't the star of Highlander. I would have loved, though, to have written a flashback for Methos walking in the steps and the footprints of Jesus. And I would have loved to have seen how Jesus's light would have reflected on Methos and what change would have occurred in his character. Melissa Madras: What made you decide to write a love interest into Methos's life? Well, I wanted to end the rumors of 'Methos and Duncan Forever', so I needed to change it, so I needed to give him a girl to love. But seriously, the real reason we wrote it was we wanted to make the character human. We wanted to show a different side of him, and we thought that if we touched him with a woman's heart, we could expand the character and make him less cynical, and lovable and human, which I thought it did. Vallouise Armstrong from Abilene, Kansas, writes, Is there a story you always wanted to write for Methos, but were never able to? In present day, I would love to see Methos anywhere, because I believe that Peter is a particularly gifted actor, and the more I write for him, the better I look. Mary Lyon wants to know, Was any thought ever given to making Methos's character a woman? Never. I didn't want to create another character in the play, to play romantic sparks off Duncan, because there was Amanda, there was Tessa, and there were so many other women. How does Peter's portrayal of Methos change your image of the character? When we first wrote the character of Methos, we had no idea he would be a recurring character. I wanted another Darius character, a character who had been around a long time and was wise, but we had to play him completely different than we played Darius. So we created this character who was a bit cynical, pragmatic, a little -- on occasion -- emotionally immature, because we believe that people, like Immortals, go through various cycles in their life. Peter's portrayal made him an on-going character, made him interesting, made him human, made him more than we'd ever hoped for, and we saw a lot of people on tape to play this character, and it was Bill Panzer, the late Bill Panzer, to his genius and his glory, that he decided to cast this skinny kid from England at the time to play the part, and we were very lucky that he did. Mika Etnyars has asked, Have you thought about the show returning? Was this really the end of the show that made me love history? God, I hope not. I would write this underwater. I would write this show anywhere, anytime, any place to be part of it. Depends upon the market, depends if we can sell it. We're trying really hard. These characters are incredible to work with, and I would work with them anywhere, anytime. Are you working on any projects that include the main characters of Highlander? I'm so glad you asked that question. At the moment, there is an animated movie that will be coming out in about a year. I think it is the fall of 2009, called "War of the Worlds: Goliath", which all the major characters are voiced by Highlander actors. There's Peter, Adrian, Elizabeth, and Jim, and it's going to be great. They're great. My final question is that-- it's one that I'm going to ask myself, which is, What will I miss most about Methos? And I will miss a perfect performance by Peter Wingfield. He not only took the character and took the words and performed them, he became the character. He was Methos, and in my mind will always be Methos. So I just want to thank you, and I want to thank him. I loved writing this show. It's been a great pleasure being on here, and God bless you all, and from all of us, as Bill would say, without you, we wouldn't be here, so thank you very, very much. |
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