Redemption Comments
Shomeret
I always like to see Cassandra and Methos coming to
some sort of accomodation, and Methos admits that
he owes Cassandra. I imagine he's been a slave
far longer and under much worse circumstances, so
the punishment may not have been as severe as
Cassandra or Duncan thought it was.
The character of Igraine, the child seer interests me.
There was a child seer in the Celtic series, Roar.
It's a cultural parallel with the Tibetan Buddhists
who believe that their religious leaders are re-born
with personalities and memories intact.
Shomeret
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Me too.
Now, unlike Shomeret, I normally *absolutely dislike* any stories about
"Methos doing atonement and being punished for his evil past". Since
the whole christian concept of sin ansd penance as well as the modern
concept of redemption through punishment is a whole lot younger than
either Methos, Cassandra, or any of Methos crimes as a Horseman, I
think to apply these concepts in this context is pointless and doesn't
make any sense. Also, the very thought about punishing somebody today
for crimes he had done three thousand years in the past, in completely
different circumstances, *just because, unlike mortals, the person who
did these crimes happens to be still alive* doesn't make the sightest
sense to me. And finally, I've read already enough of this kind of
stories to get very tired of it by now.
So, of course, I had some serious problems with this story from the
start.
This said, there were a lot of parts of this story I atually liked. I
liked the description of Cassandra and her changing feelings. I also
liked the way Methos managed to get around to get closer to some of the
people on the island. I liked the idea of Igraine and the dragon stonme
and -priest. And I liked the way Methos feelings were described, save
the parts of him keeping to have guilt-ridden flashbacks of his evil
past. I don't see a reason to doubt Methos statement in the ep "Till
death" that he haven't felt guilt since the eleventh century. It was an
off-handed, flippant remark, but it did make sense; he had, at a point,
acknowledged that guilt is pointless and get him nowhere, and had
accepted what he'd done and been and moved on. Him starting indulging
in this kind of guilt-ridden flashbacks now, especially in this
situation of capture, doesn't seem very believable and soesn't make
sense to me. And I very much doubt that in the end, when he was free to
leave, he even would contemplate to stay or getting bever a foot back
on this island, like he did in this story.
Then I liked the way Cassandra came out of the story. Her having to
acknowledgeher own capacity of cruelty, of the corrupting effect of
power and of her behaviour as a mistress was a good and interesting
turn. I always like it when characzters in stories are confronted with
the darkness within themselves, and grow wiser by it. Now, I doubt very
much that cassandra, being 3000 years old, and at least a third of this
time living in societies where slavery and unfree servitude was the
very base of economy, never in her life had been a mistress and owned
slaves before, but well. It made sense in the context of the story.
Finally, I found it interesting that Mac, for all his eagerness to race
to the rescue, backed off the moment Cassandra threatened to challenge
hm and brought out her little speech of pjust punishment, and was ready
to leaving Methos on the island. As nearly always, Methos ended up
saving MacLeods butt, not the other way round. And when Mac finally
demanded that he could leave and was determined to fight for it, methos
could have aleady left on his own, with Vortig or, after killing
Vortig, with the coast force. For methos getting free or acting on
somebodies behalf, macLeod as well may not have been there. Once again
he had proved to the old man in this story that, from the very moment
Methos past is involved, MacLeod can't be relied on, meaning, he can
*never* be relied on for Methos in times of real need. Now I wonder
which consequences this anew evelation would have for their
"friendship"? I imagine that methos would not give up on Mac (as far as
the series goes, he's always been a fool for love), but that he never
again really would relie on mac in times of need, and would trust him
even less with his past. MacLeod would just have showed hiom again
that, when Methos really needs somewhone who is his friend, no matter
what, MacLeod can not be trusted.
All in all I think it is a very interesting story, and one of the best
pieces of genfic that I've read lately.
Helga / Aislynn
morga...@my-deja.com
such an ambiguous character in the series. There seem to be as many
interpretations of his motivation and feelings as there are fans. With
that in mind, I'm grateful that someone who doesn't like redemption
stories still took the time to read and comment on mine. And I am
*always* ready for technical criticism (thanks, Shomeret, for pointing
out the chicken-hawk snafu <g>).
Thanks for reading.
Beck
ash...@my-deja.com
morga...@my-deja.com wrote:
> One of the things I like about writing fanfic for Methos is that he is
> such an ambiguous character in the series. There seem to be as many
> interpretations of his motivation and feelings as there are fans.
With
> that in mind, I'm grateful that someone who doesn't like redemption
> stories still took the time to read and comment on mine. And I am
> *always* ready for technical criticism (thanks, Shomeret, for pointing
> out the chicken-hawk snafu <g>).
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> Beck
>
Beck:
I read your story "Redemption" when it was posted on the ROG list some
time back. I have a review of it written but have not posted it to my
Donan Woods website due to the fact that, as far as I knew, the story
had not been posted anywhere other than on that list. Is the story now
archived somewhere? I would love to not only post the review, but would
also like to add the story to my list of recommended authors/stories. I
think it is one of the best Methos and Cassandra stories I've seen. If
the story *isn't* archived anywhere, would you be interested in letting
us host it at our fanfic site and Donan Woods?
Donan Woods: http://members.aol.com/methosela/cass.htm
Ashton Press Fanfic: http://members.aol.com/pelkiepet/stories.htm
Annie CWPack
morga...@my-deja.com
ash...@my-deja.com wrote:
>I would love to not only post the review, but would
> also like to add the story to my list of recommended
> authors/stories. I think it is one of the best Methos and Cassandra >
> stories I've seen. If the story *isn't* archived anywhere, would you >
> be interested in letting us host it at our fanfic site and Donan
> Woods?
I tried emailing you about this, but I'm not sure if it got to you -- my
version of Eudora occasionally hiccups). The short answer is - yes, it
would be great to have Redemption included on your site. :) I've got it
webbed on my top-secret web page
www-personal.umich.edu/~beckyjo/rpro.htm.
Thanks a bunch for the offer and the kind words. :)
Beck