Because, you know, I need a new fandom like a hole in the head

[such_heights]

Dear LJ,

Today I slept a great deal and watched four episodes of Merlin. It was a good day.

Okay, I should have trusted you all in your infinite wisdom from the get-go. IT'S AWESOME. I love Merlin, he's adorable! I love the way all the plots are incredibly predictable! I love Richard Wilson and Anthony Head! I LOVE Gwen and Morgana!

I can has Morgana/Gwen recs now, plz? I mean, yes yes, the Arthur/Merlin, oh it is blatant, and omg Merlin/Gwen is so cute I can hardly stand it, but I am blindsided by the Gwen/Morgana. Like the episode where everyone's dying of the icky plague thing, and Gwen gives one flower to Merlin (n'awwww) and ALL THE REST TO MORGANA, hee! ♥ ♥ ♥

Also, I hear tell the episodes actually get a lot better soon? I am excited! :D

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Also, though I'm not allowing myself to dive into the exchange properly until my own story is finished and submitted, grah, rs_small_gifts has started posting! And all looks wondrous. What I did manage to read was the following, and it was excellent:

Waiting For The Great Leap Forward, by woldy
Harry Potter ; Remus/Sirius ; PG-13
Four winters in Remus' life, told backwards.

This is a wonderfully intelligent story, on class differences and politics and how Remus and Sirius fell apart. It's quite a bit heartbreaking, but in such a plausible way, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Comments

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Merlin, Merlin, Merlin! zomg. It is so heartwarming and gleeful and, and they have a dragon and it is an Arthur/Merlin shipper.

It is the gayest little show that could. And I mean that for all values of gay including happy & joyous. And it's so cheerfully anachronistic! Like, on purpose. SO CLEVER.

Also, you have upcoming episodes where there is camping out and Gwen and Morgana IN BED TOGETHER. Yes.

I ship everyone on it, including Gaius/Uther.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

It is so the gayest little show that could. I adore it and its deliberate anachronisms. Everyone is slashed like whoa, they aren't even TRYING. I am half expecting the beeb to actually get Arthur and Merlin together, only I find I have no inclination to seek out adult fanfic for them - just epic foretold romance.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

It's really funny because it's the little anachronistics that get me. Like, I know it's on purpose. But things like Merlin (and his mother) being literate drive me up the wall. Why would a peasant woman be able to write a letter to Gaius? Dives me nuts. But I know that the creators are just trying to convey "generic fantasy" and aren't going for a particular time period. So I have to quash the history person inside of me.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I guess I love it because it always seems to be doing it with a wink. And also, I'd just come off watchingtrying to watch the BBC Robin Hood which starts out with a date, and then garbs all its characters in outfits that I literally see in hipster stores all the time. I'd much rather they chuck it all out the window and tell me they are in Ye Olde Lande of Somme Fantastickale Descriptione and giggle about its arthurian legend highschool AUness. It is self-aware and I love that. And the little meta-nods - Geoffrey of Monmouth, etc... just punch it up for me.

tl;dr I'd much rather they did this, then go for historical accuracy and inevitably fail.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

LOL. Omg. Robin Hood. That show. hahaha. It's so much fun if you just turn your brain off. I seriously couldn't stop laughing when Elanor of Aquitain was the "national treasure". I usually turn Robin Hood on for background noise when I'm doing other work.

But yeah, I think deliberately not giving it a date is a really good move on Merlin's part. Because the legend itself sort of theoretically would be placed more in the early Middle Ages, but it embodied and became popular in the High Middle Ages. So idk, I do like that they're not trying to set it in somewhere specific. Although I love the Mists of Avalon which definitely is setting the legend in a specific place and time. Idk. I love that about Arthurian legend. I love that it's so flexible.

[such_heights]

*beams* It has brought so much joy to my day.

Also, you have upcoming episodes where there is camping out and Gwen and Morgana IN BED TOGETHER. Yes.

WHAT YOU SAY. God, I'm not going to get anything done for the rest of the week, am I? This show is so much fun, because there really is no Srs Bsns stuff to get in the way of the magic and the shippiness and general yay.