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merelyn1. Where is the Virgin!Merlin fic??? WHERE? Fandom, you’re letting me down.
2. The Unicorn’s bad weave made me laugh so much.
3. I like how Gwen had no lines really, she just pumped water or sand into a bucket as needed to advance the plot. And Morgana just looked concerned in her fur thing and then had to eat rat stew for the lulz. (Dear show: Next week do better with the girls, kthx.)
4. Speaking of that, the rat stew! The beetles! I am easily grossed out, but SUCH AN UNNECESSARY ADDITION TO THE EPISODE. And yet hilarious, especially Gaius’ face. I think Richard Wilson was having a grand time right there. (Sometime I need to talk about the awesomeness of RW’s blue doo-rag and insistence on wearing his glasses over his hair, but this is not the post for it.)
5. Merlin and the hand signals business was TOTALLY A RIP OFF of the SGA episode Coup D’Etat, with Rodney and his spinny finger gesture of total lameness.
(6. On that note, who wants to write the Merlin/SGA fusion fic where Uther is the Military commander of Atlantis and Merlin’s a botanist or something with the BEST ANCIENT GENE EVER and Arthur is a prat of a pilot in the RAF, and the two of them plus Gwen and Morgana (who should be all Cadman-y and blow stuff up) are a ridiculously awesome gate team?
Right. Just me then.)
7. This was such an interesting episode for Arthur. On the one hand, such a jerk (his banter with Merlin definitely had more of an edge than usual IMO). On the other hand, he’s trying so hard to do the right thing! And he has clearly-highlighted-and-underlined-several-times daddy issues. Oh, Arthur.
8. Drinking the poison aside, the most affecting moment in the whole episode for me was Merlin’s anguished “I’m meant to protect him!” (might not be an exact quote, as I am posting from work like the model employee I am). I just- ah. It got me right here. It also made me have a lot of thinky thoughts about how KEEP ARTHUR FROM BEING KILLED AND BELIEVE IN HIM AND ALSO MAKE SURE HE EATS has maybe become Merlin’s #1 priority in life? And yeah, it’s cute and destiny blah blah blah, but it’s also a little co-dependent and probably not healthy.
Obviously Arthur cares for Merlin as well, I’m not suggesting otherwise. It’s just a little strange the way it’s set up that Merlin is the hero of the show, but then a lot of times it feels like his role is mostly to be the accessory to Arthur’s own coming of age story. (Not all the time, mind you; but even last week’s episode, where the storyline was designed to reveal more of Merlin’s home life and whatnot there were an awful lot of moments where it was All About Arthur.)
It makes me want a lot of future fic where Merlin comes into his own as a badass warlock and their power dynamic shifts to something a little more equal-like.
9. A lot of people have labeled this episode decent filler, but I actually really liked it a lot. It was one of those strange ones that reminded me oddly of a Simpson’s episode- where you start with one event and then the narrative goes from A to B to C straight to R and you have no idea how it happened but it works. I in no way would have thought that killing a unicorn would end up with Arthur in a maze and then drinking liquid Ambien on a beach.
10. I AM NOT SPOILED FOR NEXT WEEK, BUT OMGWTF IT LOOKS EPIC.
In other news, how in the hell is it December already? Congrats to all you Nano survivors, btw! (I tried to keep up with
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wrisomifu, but by the end of the month it turned more into Totally Fail At Writing Anything You Wretched Fuck. Oh well, December might be better I hope.) Also,
merlinadvent is live today! I haven't had a chance to check it out much, but it looks very adorable and awesome alredy.
Re: THAT IS SO YOUR FAULT!!!
Date: 2008-12-02 09:42 pm (UTC)I didn't even know I had that kink *cough*
Re: THAT IS SO YOUR FAULT!!!
Date: 2008-12-02 09:50 pm (UTC)Oh, my glasses kink is so long-standing. Mmm.
Re: THAT IS SO YOUR FAULT!!!
Date: 2008-12-02 10:05 pm (UTC)I always had a thing for glasses. I just didn't know I had one for ARTHUR with glasses :D
Re: THAT IS SO YOUR FAULT!!!
Date: 2008-12-02 10:27 pm (UTC)Arthur would totally wear those super expensive invisible frame ones- just because he's a geek doesn't mean he can't wear designer.
Re: THAT IS SO YOUR FAULT!!!
Date: 2008-12-02 11:05 pm (UTC)And I should go to bed, I need to get up again in 6 hours. I hate getting up early.