I am all over grinning. We have had, like a string of good episodes (still with regular fail, alas) and I am unsure what to make of this, it's an unfamiliar feeling. In fact the only rubbish ep so far, was Goblin's Gold and that had definite redeeming features.

But I am so happy that they actually managed to use everyone - even if Morgana was mostly just smirking evilly. And I loved the Morgana/Merlin interaction, though not as much as the Gwen/Arthur and it reminded me of The Moment of Truth, with them all riding out and the show actually highlighted how much Morgana has changed towards Gwen and Arthur - which gives me hopes they will actually do something with that.

Plus Gwen mattered and her as a love interest was only half the equation for once. And I really, really loved Elyan - knight in waiting, who knows his way around a sword. Interesting name choice too, intrigued to see whether it's just a name they liked or whether they'll be playing around with the earlier Elyan legends. And was ridiculously amused that he was riding behind Merlin instead of Gwen. There will not be a Knight of the roundtable that Merlin hasn't seduced. Which makes me want a vid of the number of men Merlin has 'bonded' with or just generally a Merlin the Peeper vid, given there was the Morgana stuff at least in Series 1 and he's spent a lot of the time since, sneaking around people's bedrooms whilst they sleep.

Also - yay - next weeks trailer has me all excited. They're doing Fisher King stuff :D And one of the lines makes me think that Arthur will at least find out he has a sister.

This series is making me so happy right now, if it ends with a series regular (any series regular) finding out about Merlin's magic, then I'll be ecstatic.