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clo_againSo thanks to tennis and house guests, I just got around to watching this week's Merlin.
Um. I kind of feel like someone put their hand around my heart in the first five minutes and spent the next thirty-five or so squeezing tighter and tighter until it actually broke. Which, ew but also true. Like. Seriously. That's how they chose to bring Lancelot back???? And just-
You know what? I don't actually have any words. Other than...I didn't really enjoy the episode. At all. I don't watch Merlin for the bleakly depressing.
Also, this is the moment when Merlin should've opened his stupid dumb mouth and said "I have magic. Lancelot is the walking undead. There must be a reason for Gwen's behaviour Arthur." He could've maybe saved Gwen, and based on that soul-destroying final moment between him and Lancelot he could've almost cetainly looked for a way to restore Lancelot to himself properly. This was finally the moment to speak up Merlin. And you didn't.
And I am always going to resent you for that. Fuck the stupid legend; you're a new form of the legend. You could've done something to subvert expectations. You could've made Merlin step up; this was the moment to make him step up. And you didn't. And I hate thatAggravating Agravaine is still hanging around with no progression in Arthur's feelings toward him even this far into the season and just. No. Everything about that episode was no.
Um. So I kind of don't want to watch Merlin anymore. Because that was about as fun as sticking pins in my heart for forty-five minutes and I like you Merlin, I really do, but you're not Buffy or Angel or Farscape or even any of the Stargates; I just don't trust that you can fix this in any way that makes the bleak depressingness of that episode okay. I really don't.
p.s. So Merlin/Lancelot is pretty much canon now, yes? The little slashy hints were the only thing I enjoyed, until they just had to finish off the heart-squeezing with a knife to the back in that final scene. I'm tearing up just thinking about it, oh god. Sorry show, but I think we're done.
p.p.s. Katie McGrath was the only thing that was utterly fabulous in this ep. I really believe in her as an incarnation of Morgana le Fay now after a series or two of dubiousness. Good on her.
p.p.p.s. Did anyone else notice the appalling editing during the joust scenes when 'Arthur' and 'Lancelot' were riding a different horse practically every cut? Just because two horses are grey doesn't mean no one will notice that one has a flowing white mane and one a short dark grey. And 'Arthur' went from a bright bay, to a dark bay, to a very-dark-almost-black-bay mid-joust. It was very lazy editing and ruined the scene for me because yeah, I know it's not them actually jousting but at least try for consistency so as not to make it obvious. Sigh.
p.p.p.p.p.s Also getting mostly!nekkid Santiago Cabrera was fabulous. I LOLed quite a lot at the way he carefully didn't venture too far out the water. Also, Morgana didn't appear to have any clothes on hand for him; did he walk back to her secret forest hut completely naked? I imagine the lake of dead things wasn't conveniently on her doorstep either.
I wish that'd been the episode instead. I think I'd have enjoyed it a lot more.
I can't believe I watched that just before going to sleep and now I have to sleep and go to work in a terrible mood. It was an incredibly stupid idea; don't watch that episode just before sleep.
Or you know, at all.
eta: Pretty much every comment on the SFX review of the ep goes on about how "brilliant!!" that episode was (although actually reading on further, there are a few that echo the way I feel). So, some people liked it. (I still don't).
Um. I kind of feel like someone put their hand around my heart in the first five minutes and spent the next thirty-five or so squeezing tighter and tighter until it actually broke. Which, ew but also true. Like. Seriously. That's how they chose to bring Lancelot back???? And just-
You know what? I don't actually have any words. Other than...I didn't really enjoy the episode. At all. I don't watch Merlin for the bleakly depressing.
Also, this is the moment when Merlin should've opened his stupid dumb mouth and said "I have magic. Lancelot is the walking undead. There must be a reason for Gwen's behaviour Arthur." He could've maybe saved Gwen, and based on that soul-destroying final moment between him and Lancelot he could've almost cetainly looked for a way to restore Lancelot to himself properly. This was finally the moment to speak up Merlin. And you didn't.
And I am always going to resent you for that. Fuck the stupid legend; you're a new form of the legend. You could've done something to subvert expectations. You could've made Merlin step up; this was the moment to make him step up. And you didn't. And I hate that
Um. So I kind of don't want to watch Merlin anymore. Because that was about as fun as sticking pins in my heart for forty-five minutes and I like you Merlin, I really do, but you're not Buffy or Angel or Farscape or even any of the Stargates; I just don't trust that you can fix this in any way that makes the bleak depressingness of that episode okay. I really don't.
p.s. So Merlin/Lancelot is pretty much canon now, yes? The little slashy hints were the only thing I enjoyed, until they just had to finish off the heart-squeezing with a knife to the back in that final scene. I'm tearing up just thinking about it, oh god. Sorry show, but I think we're done.
p.p.s. Katie McGrath was the only thing that was utterly fabulous in this ep. I really believe in her as an incarnation of Morgana le Fay now after a series or two of dubiousness. Good on her.
p.p.p.s. Did anyone else notice the appalling editing during the joust scenes when 'Arthur' and 'Lancelot' were riding a different horse practically every cut? Just because two horses are grey doesn't mean no one will notice that one has a flowing white mane and one a short dark grey. And 'Arthur' went from a bright bay, to a dark bay, to a very-dark-almost-black-bay mid-joust. It was very lazy editing and ruined the scene for me because yeah, I know it's not them actually jousting but at least try for consistency so as not to make it obvious. Sigh.
p.p.p.p.p.s Also getting mostly!nekkid Santiago Cabrera was fabulous. I LOLed quite a lot at the way he carefully didn't venture too far out the water. Also, Morgana didn't appear to have any clothes on hand for him; did he walk back to her secret forest hut completely naked? I imagine the lake of dead things wasn't conveniently on her doorstep either.
I wish that'd been the episode instead. I think I'd have enjoyed it a lot more.
I can't believe I watched that just before going to sleep and now I have to sleep and go to work in a terrible mood. It was an incredibly stupid idea; don't watch that episode just before sleep.
Or you know, at all.
eta: Pretty much every comment on the SFX review of the ep goes on about how "brilliant!!" that episode was (although actually reading on further, there are a few that echo the way I feel). So, some people liked it. (I still don't).
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Date: 2011-11-28 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-28 07:24 pm (UTC)Er. Apparently I'm still a little bit heartbroken. Sorry.
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Date: 2011-11-28 08:30 pm (UTC)