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Oct. 30th, 2011 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clo_againOne more Merlin-related thing (hey, NaNo starts on Tuesday; I have to get all this urge to internet!stalk Eoin Macken and Rupert Young out of my system by midnight tomorrow); on an idle 'oh look, press stuff that Eoin and Rupert did together!' watching of a Youtube vid, I was half-watching the montage of Merlin clips at the start of this interview here and at about 11 seconds into the vid I yelled "LANCELOT!" and I've now rewatched several times and...
...well look, if you're missing Santiago's beautiful face terribly and you want some hope for this series (actually more than hope because now Wikipedia informs me that the show creators have announced he's definitely coming back. WHY DOES NO ONE TELL ME THESE THINGS), watch it closely. Because I'm pretty sure we haven't seen that particular scene yet (correct me if I've spaced it please, because I'd love to go back and rewatch it, after berating myself for forgetting something clearly so awesome) but to me it looks like Arthur catching a all-clad-in-black-like-a-freaking-ninja-Lancelot kissing Gwen and then cue the epic swordfight. Which is, wow, closer to the actual legend than I thought they'd go this series but it's interesting that it's so early; it means there'd be time next series for Lancelot and Gwen to reconcile with Camelot after running away to have epic adventures together! #happypipedreams
Of course, having said that means it'll probably now all turn out to be a dream sequence. And it's interesting that Lancelot is all in black because this show believes heavily in colour-coding; how Arthur hasn't noticed that his Evil Uncle stomps around looking like Darth Vader would be inexplicable if not for the repeated knocks to the head he's suffered in the course of this show. An Evil Lancelot? Depending on who your favourite was in the original legend (I used to argue with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rainy_roz over it because I loved Lancelot and she didn't), it's totally doable but the Lancelot of Merlin has been so consistently beautifully lovely that I can't see them pulling it off. And I can't see Gwen absconding to have super adventures with his evil clone either.
This was meant to be a super!quick post to say DO THESE THREE SECONDS OF FILM MEAN WHAT I THINK THEY MEAN?!!! but instead I tangentalized. Oops. (Tangent: tangentalize is such a beautiful un-word. At some point I will get it on a t-shirt or something.)
You may now return to whatever useful thing you were doing before reading this, and I'll try to stop watching the same three seconds of film over and over so I can actually watch the interview. Oh internets. How did people find such joy before you existed?
...well look, if you're missing Santiago's beautiful face terribly and you want some hope for this series (actually more than hope because now Wikipedia informs me that the show creators have announced he's definitely coming back. WHY DOES NO ONE TELL ME THESE THINGS), watch it closely. Because I'm pretty sure we haven't seen that particular scene yet (correct me if I've spaced it please, because I'd love to go back and rewatch it, after berating myself for forgetting something clearly so awesome) but to me it looks like Arthur catching a all-clad-in-black-like-a-freaking-ninja-Lancelot kissing Gwen and then cue the epic swordfight. Which is, wow, closer to the actual legend than I thought they'd go this series but it's interesting that it's so early; it means there'd be time next series for Lancelot and Gwen to reconcile with Camelot after running away to have epic adventures together! #happypipedreams
Of course, having said that means it'll probably now all turn out to be a dream sequence. And it's interesting that Lancelot is all in black because this show believes heavily in colour-coding; how Arthur hasn't noticed that his Evil Uncle stomps around looking like Darth Vader would be inexplicable if not for the repeated knocks to the head he's suffered in the course of this show. An Evil Lancelot? Depending on who your favourite was in the original legend (I used to argue with
rainy_roz over it because I loved Lancelot and she didn't), it's totally doable but the Lancelot of Merlin has been so consistently beautifully lovely that I can't see them pulling it off. And I can't see Gwen absconding to have super adventures with his evil clone either.This was meant to be a super!quick post to say DO THESE THREE SECONDS OF FILM MEAN WHAT I THINK THEY MEAN?!!! but instead I tangentalized. Oops. (Tangent: tangentalize is such a beautiful un-word. At some point I will get it on a t-shirt or something.)
You may now return to whatever useful thing you were doing before reading this, and I'll try to stop watching the same three seconds of film over and over so I can actually watch the interview. Oh internets. How did people find such joy before you existed?
