My review/recap of this week's episode. Feel free to respectfully disagree with me in the comments. Apologies for all the food metaphors. I'm hungry...
I'm holding the hamsters back for now. I liked the first three episodes a lot, so as much as this episode really, really pissed me off, I'm keeping them locked in their little Hamster Ball...at least until next week ;)
We've had four seasons of poor old Odin being rolled out as the most inert baddie king they could create, so hopefully we won't have another episode where he sends ninja's and acrobats to kill Arthur. Why didn't he just hire a guy with a sword? He's clearly been to the Morgana school of Crazy Complex Failing Plans.
Yeah, for me Arthur and Merlin were not written to even 50% of their potential in this episode. If they had insisted on this repetative story, then we could have at least got an interesting insight into their mindset. Arthur having to deal with all this power he has and is (so we're told) gaining, and Merlin having to face up to the fact that maybe with Morgana around his magic is diminished slightly. It would have been a nice contrast, a nice link and add a lot of depth into a dull as dishwater story.
They could have actually stretched out Arthur deliberately trying to unite Albion rather than keep on having him do it accidently by not killing people. I thought they did that well in Annis episode last year actually. Really played up Arthur's strategic skills. In this episode it was just like he went out for a long walk and decided not to stab anyone.
PMSL! That is so SO perfectly right! He's uniting Albion by killing peoples relatives and then deciding not to finish them off too. And yes - he went for a long walk and decided not to stab anyone. That is a summary of 5.04. Why did we both write so much on it?
Im not sure its that with Morgana around his magic is diminished slightly as that because they wont out him to her, he has to basically cower before her and let her have at the old killing-him-off thing without defending himself. Better dead than revealed as a sorceror yes? The fact he could supposedly kill her and thus get her out of the way... not addressed. We're supposed to forget all that because they then have him throwing her against walls/trees/the ground when she's not looking or he's in disguise. I just think they don't think we'll notice... and to be fair most people don't perhaps because they're so pathetically grateful he gets to do any kind of magic at all so...
We've had four seasons of poor old Odin being rolled out as the most inert baddie king they could create, so hopefully we won't have another episode where he sends ninja's and acrobats to kill Arthur. Why didn't he just hire a guy with a sword? He's clearly been to the Morgana school of Crazy Complex Failing Plans.
Yeah, for me Arthur and Merlin were not written to even 50% of their potential in this episode. If they had insisted on this repetative story, then we could have at least got an interesting insight into their mindset. Arthur having to deal with all this power he has and is (so we're told) gaining, and Merlin having to face up to the fact that maybe with Morgana around his magic is diminished slightly. It would have been a nice contrast, a nice link and add a lot of depth into a dull as dishwater story.
They could have actually stretched out Arthur deliberately trying to unite Albion rather than keep on having him do it accidently by not killing people. I thought they did that well in Annis episode last year actually. Really played up Arthur's strategic skills. In this episode it was just like he went out for a long walk and decided not to stab anyone.
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Im not sure its that with Morgana around his magic is diminished slightly as that because they wont out him to her, he has to basically cower before her and let her have at the old killing-him-off thing without defending himself. Better dead than revealed as a sorceror yes? The fact he could supposedly kill her and thus get her out of the way... not addressed. We're supposed to forget all that because they then have him throwing her against walls/trees/the ground when she's not looking or he's in disguise. I just think they don't think we'll notice... and to be fair most people don't perhaps because they're so pathetically grateful he gets to do any kind of magic at all so...
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