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I am beginning to think that my DW/LJ posts consist of only three things, and will probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future: posts where I try to talk reasonably about life post-undergrad without having some kind of meltdown; posts where I talk about attempts at various creative endeavors; and posts where I talk about the rubbish TV I watch. This is the third kind!
I have decided that I possibly like Morgana episodes best, in the sense that they seem the most Arthurian to me. Why? I don't know, and I'd probably have to rewatch the first episode with Creepy Baby Mordred in order to even begin articulating it. (I have a massive nonsexual my-inner-baby-Arthurian-is-squeaking-with-glee crush on Creepy Baby Mordred, by the way. Ohhh Mordred, be tiny and ambiguously evil always!) Maybe it's because Morgana's plotline is less ... corrupted? remixed? than any of the others. I may have gotten little chills every time Merlin and Morgana were carefully not talking about things.
Speaking of, I think this is the Season Of Het. Seriously, s1 was all Merlin/Arthur and Gwen/Morgana, all the time, and when Lancelot turned up I was more interested in pairing him with the boys than with Gwen. S2, I am all about the Arthur/Gwen and apparently the Merlin/Morgana, and the preview for next episode with Lancelot turning up again made me feel genuinely interested in the Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot triangle even though they didn't play that angle in the preview. (Also I still ship Uther/Morgana, but that is old news. That I may have never mentioned before because it's kind of creepy.)
And speaking of creepy, it may not actually be good for my blood pressure to watch this show and Eastwick at the same time. In neither case can I actually tell if the subtext wants us to understand that Women With Agency & Power Is Bad. Arrrgh. This is because in both cases the source material says yes, but the remixing is less certain about it. I mean, this week Morgana learned that having magic doesn't automatically mean the corruption of your soul! This week Morgana also learned that Uther's fear of magic and for her safety is effectively keeping her prisoner, and were I her I'd probably end up psychologically fucked too. But honestly? Honestly I am very uncomfortable with both Gaius and the dragon, because Gaius' shit reason for keeping Morgana in the dark is that she's the ~king's ward~ (newsflash, Gaius! she's in trouble because she has magic, whether or not she knows she does) and ... fuck knows what the dragon wants. Maybe it's read its Mallory?
All I really know is that I want some kind of sea change. I want Merlin and Morgana to know about one another's magic! I want Arthur to have to deal with this shit! I want Gwen to have to deal with this shit! I want fewer breakdowns in communication and more everyone knowing about one another and having to deal with tough decisions and keeping one another safe from Uther &c &c. I'm guessing that's too much to ask, and we should just probably all write about it instead of expecting the show to do so, but oh do I ever want some forward momentum.
I have decided that I possibly like Morgana episodes best, in the sense that they seem the most Arthurian to me. Why? I don't know, and I'd probably have to rewatch the first episode with Creepy Baby Mordred in order to even begin articulating it. (I have a massive nonsexual my-inner-baby-Arthurian-is-squeaking-with-glee crush on Creepy Baby Mordred, by the way. Ohhh Mordred, be tiny and ambiguously evil always!) Maybe it's because Morgana's plotline is less ... corrupted? remixed? than any of the others. I may have gotten little chills every time Merlin and Morgana were carefully not talking about things.
Speaking of, I think this is the Season Of Het. Seriously, s1 was all Merlin/Arthur and Gwen/Morgana, all the time, and when Lancelot turned up I was more interested in pairing him with the boys than with Gwen. S2, I am all about the Arthur/Gwen and apparently the Merlin/Morgana, and the preview for next episode with Lancelot turning up again made me feel genuinely interested in the Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot triangle even though they didn't play that angle in the preview. (Also I still ship Uther/Morgana, but that is old news. That I may have never mentioned before because it's kind of creepy.)
And speaking of creepy, it may not actually be good for my blood pressure to watch this show and Eastwick at the same time. In neither case can I actually tell if the subtext wants us to understand that Women With Agency & Power Is Bad. Arrrgh. This is because in both cases the source material says yes, but the remixing is less certain about it. I mean, this week Morgana learned that having magic doesn't automatically mean the corruption of your soul! This week Morgana also learned that Uther's fear of magic and for her safety is effectively keeping her prisoner, and were I her I'd probably end up psychologically fucked too. But honestly? Honestly I am very uncomfortable with both Gaius and the dragon, because Gaius' shit reason for keeping Morgana in the dark is that she's the ~king's ward~ (newsflash, Gaius! she's in trouble because she has magic, whether or not she knows she does) and ... fuck knows what the dragon wants. Maybe it's read its Mallory?
All I really know is that I want some kind of sea change. I want Merlin and Morgana to know about one another's magic! I want Arthur to have to deal with this shit! I want Gwen to have to deal with this shit! I want fewer breakdowns in communication and more everyone knowing about one another and having to deal with tough decisions and keeping one another safe from Uther &c &c. I'm guessing that's too much to ask, and we should just probably all write about it instead of expecting the show to do so, but oh do I ever want some forward momentum.
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(...yeah, that's about as intelligent as my reaction to that episode gets. Everyone was so pretty!)
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(You do not need intelligent thoughts! Everyone was so pretty! :D)
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I was so pleased with the show when it looked like it was going to notice that Gaius is a CREEPY DOCTOR :( (who he reminds me MOST of is Herb Green of the Unfortunate Experiment, and I think my cultural baggage wrt this is what makes me HATE Gaius. But then Merlin was all "YOU'RE SO SPECIAL GAIUS I JUST WANT HER TO HAVE THAT" and I was like :(.
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Yeeeeah, Gaius upsets me. He's very nice to Merlin! HE STILL MAKES CREEPY LIFE CHOICES.
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YEAH. You know in the S1 finale when they fake-out killed him? I was happy. >.>