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rionaleonhart) wrote2011-10-15 09:34 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2011-10-15 09:34 pm
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I Don't Really Know What To Put Here.
Are we really only on the third episode of this series? I hope Merlin keeps up this level of quality.
OKAY IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE EPISODE GO AWAY RIGHT NOW. I DIDN'T WANT TO INDICATE OUTSIDE THE CUT THAT THERE ARE MASSIVE SPOILERS IN HERE BECAUSE THAT IN ITSELF IS SORT OF A SPOILER BUT YOU REALLY DO WANT TO WATCH THE EPISODE BEFORE YOU READ THIS.
Only people who've actually watched the episode here? Good. Here we go:
Oh, my God, Merlin, when did you become so completely emotionally devastating?
And, as they did in last week's episode, they've set up what we've come to expect from Merlin - a character is dying, but he's not quite dead, so obviously the episode is going to be about how he's saved - and then hung a tenfold reversal charm on those expectations. Even after 'The Darkest Hour', I didn't think they would actually let Uther die. I became a bit nervous when I realised that one constant of Merlin - Uther is never truly killed - was at odds with another - magic can never be accepted in Camelot - but I still didn't think they would actually go there.
I am a fool.
(And I was smiling so much at the beginning of the episode, thinking about how much I loved the Arthur-Merlin relationship and how happy Merlin made me! I was not expecting this dagger to the gut!)
I didn't actually cry, but I felt awful. I'm not sure an episode of anything has ever made me feel so plain bad before. I didn't particularly like Uther himself, but it was the circumstances of his death: Arthur's determination and love and hope and the fact that now he thinks it's entirely his fault, Merlin having to live with the knowledge that he accidentally killed his best friend's father, not to mention the fact that Uther was initially wounded when he was trying to protect his son. How are Merlin and Arthur going to cope with this? How is any of that something you can cope with? Merlin sitting outside the room on his own and quietly blaming himself absolutely broke my heart, as did almost every single expression on Arthur's face from the moment Uther was stabbed.
(Things that made me happy about the episode: Arthur trusts Merlin enough to tell him that he's considering using magic to heal his father, 'why would I want to watch you?', and you know my stomach is twisting too much for me to think of other positive things. Merlin, I'm going to want the shattered pieces of my soul back at some point.)
I think Merlin is actually the television series in which I have the most emotional investment at the moment. COME TO ME, SATURDAYS.
OKAY IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE EPISODE GO AWAY RIGHT NOW. I DIDN'T WANT TO INDICATE OUTSIDE THE CUT THAT THERE ARE MASSIVE SPOILERS IN HERE BECAUSE THAT IN ITSELF IS SORT OF A SPOILER BUT YOU REALLY DO WANT TO WATCH THE EPISODE BEFORE YOU READ THIS.
Only people who've actually watched the episode here? Good. Here we go:
Oh, my God, Merlin, when did you become so completely emotionally devastating?
And, as they did in last week's episode, they've set up what we've come to expect from Merlin - a character is dying, but he's not quite dead, so obviously the episode is going to be about how he's saved - and then hung a tenfold reversal charm on those expectations. Even after 'The Darkest Hour', I didn't think they would actually let Uther die. I became a bit nervous when I realised that one constant of Merlin - Uther is never truly killed - was at odds with another - magic can never be accepted in Camelot - but I still didn't think they would actually go there.
I am a fool.
(And I was smiling so much at the beginning of the episode, thinking about how much I loved the Arthur-Merlin relationship and how happy Merlin made me! I was not expecting this dagger to the gut!)
I didn't actually cry, but I felt awful. I'm not sure an episode of anything has ever made me feel so plain bad before. I didn't particularly like Uther himself, but it was the circumstances of his death: Arthur's determination and love and hope and the fact that now he thinks it's entirely his fault, Merlin having to live with the knowledge that he accidentally killed his best friend's father, not to mention the fact that Uther was initially wounded when he was trying to protect his son. How are Merlin and Arthur going to cope with this? How is any of that something you can cope with? Merlin sitting outside the room on his own and quietly blaming himself absolutely broke my heart, as did almost every single expression on Arthur's face from the moment Uther was stabbed.
(Things that made me happy about the episode: Arthur trusts Merlin enough to tell him that he's considering using magic to heal his father, 'why would I want to watch you?', and you know my stomach is twisting too much for me to think of other positive things. Merlin, I'm going to want the shattered pieces of my soul back at some point.)
I think Merlin is actually the television series in which I have the most emotional investment at the moment. COME TO ME, SATURDAYS.