Is Methos... evil?

[dubiousbystander]

I think he was perfectly happy as a Horseman, at first. He was sure on a high when he took Cassandra, giddy with delight, I felt. However, he was losing his enthusiasm for raiding what with making of the camp a home, because he had her. My belief is that he didn't know he was trapped until Kronos got angry and took Cassandra away from him.

[Aleander]

I don't think he was lying. I genuinely believe he doesn't remember his very early past. Why should he?

[Coolwater]

I don't think Methos is evil or sociopathic. I think he's self-protective. He wasn't happy as a Horseman, but had no way to get out of it safely, so he did evil things, but as little as possible. And I think he wants friends, but people die young and immortals often kill one another, so he approaches Duncan and Amanda and Joe very cautiously. I think he is inclined to be cynical, but the fact that he does make friends with them, means he isn't fundamentally so.

[Midnight Rambler]

He can go either way. It's all an means to end.

[Andrew NDB]

He does lie, even in the present. Early in the show he told Duncan he had amnesia about his earliest years and has no idea how old he is. Yet much later in "Reunion," Methos is able to rattle off his exact age to Joe: 5,127 years of age, or whatever.

[Aleander]

Interesting choice, Nicholas.

Yeah, it makes sense. Anyone after 5000 years has got to be a little bit insane. I mean, you HAVE lived forever.

[Nicholas Ward]

Sociopath.

Basically neutral, he's only interested in his own benefits. Evil or good doesn't mean much to him, he can be either as long as it serves his own interests.

[Andrew NDB]

What do you think? Is Methos just biding his time, pretending to be Duncan's buddy until Duncan takes out the strongest Immortals, then he'll chop off Duncan's head in his sleep? Is he truly a reformed Immortal, no evil or secret agenda inside since his days of being Death of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?