Amy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
such_heights) wrote2010-10-10 01:33 am
such_heights) wrote2010-10-10 01:33 am
Entry tags:
Merlin 3x05
HOLY CRAP PEOPLE. Oh wow oh wow, okay.
+ To me the opening scenes added yet further fodder to the fanon that Arthur totally knows Merlin's magical, he's just messing with him. Oh man, how I wish I thought there was any chance the writers would actually do that.
+ Is there anything sadder than Gwen crying? NO THERE IS NOT. ;____; And hey, Morgana was actually nice to her in this episode! My ship liiiives, um, kind of.
+ So, the Uther is Morgana's father thing is something a fair few of us saw coming. But I am so relieved that Morgana knows rather than it being another thing for Merlin to hold over here. Also, I thought it was fantastic characterisation for her, that knowledge being the thing that drives her to try and kill Uther finally. We know Morgana tends to lose it as soon as it gets personal - it was stupid, and Morgause knew it was stupid, and yet completely believable.
+ Dear Dragon, with your 'witch must die' bullshit: kindly shut up, approximately yesterday.
+ Okay, so I felt like this episode at least hinted at a bit of moral dubiousness at Merlin's choices, aside from the whole self-fulfilling prophecy thing (which, INDEED, Merlin, if only you'd thought about that sooner we wouldn't be in this mess!). For me the key thing was him saying that he couldn't let Morgana kill Uther because it would tear Camelot apart. That, at least, is a concrete reason that I can understand, even though his lack of ambivalence about it remains confusing to me.
+ HOLY GENEALOGY BATMAN. So, it seems to me that the current canon suggests that Arthur is Uther and Ygraine's child, Morgana is Uther and Vivian's child, and Morgause is Gorlois and Vivian's child. Which does make some other previous canon things kind of confusing, but eh. This is a good post in merlin_multis.
+ I repeat, Gwen crying and clutching Arthur/crying over Morgana: SADDEST THING IN THE WORLD. My heart, it broke. GWENNNNN.
+ To me the opening scenes added yet further fodder to the fanon that Arthur totally knows Merlin's magical, he's just messing with him. Oh man, how I wish I thought there was any chance the writers would actually do that.
+ Is there anything sadder than Gwen crying? NO THERE IS NOT. ;____; And hey, Morgana was actually nice to her in this episode! My ship liiiives, um, kind of.
+ So, the Uther is Morgana's father thing is something a fair few of us saw coming. But I am so relieved that Morgana knows rather than it being another thing for Merlin to hold over here. Also, I thought it was fantastic characterisation for her, that knowledge being the thing that drives her to try and kill Uther finally. We know Morgana tends to lose it as soon as it gets personal - it was stupid, and Morgause knew it was stupid, and yet completely believable.
+ Dear Dragon, with your 'witch must die' bullshit: kindly shut up, approximately yesterday.
+ Okay, so I felt like this episode at least hinted at a bit of moral dubiousness at Merlin's choices, aside from the whole self-fulfilling prophecy thing (which, INDEED, Merlin, if only you'd thought about that sooner we wouldn't be in this mess!). For me the key thing was him saying that he couldn't let Morgana kill Uther because it would tear Camelot apart. That, at least, is a concrete reason that I can understand, even though his lack of ambivalence about it remains confusing to me.
+ HOLY GENEALOGY BATMAN. So, it seems to me that the current canon suggests that Arthur is Uther and Ygraine's child, Morgana is Uther and Vivian's child, and Morgause is Gorlois and Vivian's child. Which does make some other previous canon things kind of confusing, but eh. This is a good post in merlin_multis.
+ I repeat, Gwen crying and clutching Arthur/crying over Morgana: SADDEST THING IN THE WORLD. My heart, it broke. GWENNNNN.
no subject
WHEN GWEN CRIES WE ALL CRY WITH HER.
And, yeah, the family trees are so confusing. I think you've probably summed up everything there - so, um, Vivian and Gorlois had an affair earlier but ended up married anyway? My head, it spins.
no subject
Yeah, I have no idea how we explain Morgause getting smuggled out in this case - I think that the writers sometimes forget their own timelines, namely that magic was okay pre-Arthur's birth.