Frighteningly, this is one of the best description of Merlin I've come across:

Arthuriana meets Jeeves and Wooster meets Smallville.

That's basically it.

Merlin is so silly and so light, bright and improbable--I don't mean the show, with its obvious flaws, but the idea within the show--these young careless people who love each other without realizing it, and know so little ( Read more... )

Writing Arthur is fun. There are such gaps between what he does, what he says, what he thinks and what he actually feels. The result is like music with four or five melodies in counterpoint ( Read more... )

My beautiful, silly boys. They're so confused and earnest and painfully young. And they're going to have such adventures together, drive each other crazy with irritation, bitching and bantering, quite quite sure the other is a complete moron and put on earth to be the plague of their existence (and yet somehow the niftiest, most amazing person ( Read more... )