HL's "Legacy" and "Methuselah's Gift"

I rewatched "Legacy" and "Methuselah's Gift" last weekend.

I realized with new clarity why "Legacy" has always been one of my favorites. It plugs straight into what I consider the series' best, most important themes, of loss and survival and what it is to be human, and it drags Amanda there all unwilling. Amanda in mourning is my favorite Amanda. Amanda vulnerable is my second favorite. I'm not a big Amanda fan, but when she has her hijinks and fancies wrenched away and has to be just one of us who live and lose and mourn and know death will come for us, she does speak to me.

"Methuselah's Gift" is very similar, in one of its plots, but so unrelated in its other. Personally, I don't care about the arrogant man who joined the Watchers thinking he could become immortal, and was willing to kill and kill and kill to do it. The story gives me no sympathy for him. He is the least human there... as one-shot villains often are. I grant that it's a clever "what if?" to have asked! But he and the capers are the least of that episode for me. Methos hurling "You try being [Alexa]" at Amanda is the most.

I noticed again that Rebecca's husband seems strangely clueless when Luther shows up. I wonder whether he was in a situation analogous to Tessa's before Slan and Conner came along, knowing some of it but not enough of it to really be a full partner in that part of life.

And I noticed once again that there seems to be a lot of popping back and forth across the English Channel in "Legacy." Rebecca's castle/abbey/ruin is in England; Duncan's barge is in France. Why didn't Amanda and Duncan just stay in a hotel in London for a few days...? Or stay with Rebecca's husband? And the reverse for Luther and his goons? Or was the Channel crossing just that easy? Or am I mistaken about where the scenes are set?!

Anyway. :-) What do you love or hate about "Legacy" and "Methuselah's Gift"?