Dear Merlin,

Jun 08, 2010 22:38

Not the character, the show. I adore the world you created and the characters you gave us ( Read more... )

fandom: merlin, !meta

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anowlinsunshine June 9 2010, 03:16:44 UTC
Yes, this. A thousand times, exactly, so precisely this.

I'd pick a part to quote back at you, but I really can't because all of it so perfect summarizes my frustrations and despair with the show. I've tried getting caught up on S2, I have, but I cannot get past so many of these things -- Gaius' continually excused and ever-increasing moral ambiguities and self-righteousness, Gwen and Morgana's general shunting to the back of the episode unless a ~moment is required (because we all know that that's all women are good for; too much estrogen for anything else!), Arthur's reset to blithering and self-centered idiot. It's too much for me, and it breaks my heart that I've reached a point where I essentially have to end my canon at the S1 finale because I cannot deal with watching what it became in S2. It doesn't feel like my show anymore, and they don't feel like my characters, and maybe I'm being a terrible fan, but I don't know how to adjust and get it all back to a point where I can look at it and go, "Yes, that's it, I know this." It' ( ... )

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grapecase June 9 2010, 18:11:45 UTC
Hi. I don't know you. But I wholeheartedly agree. Getting caught up on season two has been a chore and I literally WINCE whenever I might need to watch it in relation to a character.

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faynia June 9 2010, 15:24:35 UTC
It's sad because I do love this show and I know I shouldn't raise my expectations very high for S3, but I can't help it. Even the cast wants half of what we want, they're just never given the chance to do anything with it.

SO much frustration.

I shall live happily in fics forevermore.

PS. I randomly went and read pretty much all your fics yesterday and didn't leave a single comment cause I'm a lamer, but I loved them all!

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faynia June 9 2010, 15:26:02 UTC
FRUSTRATING.

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faithwood June 9 2010, 12:24:57 UTC
My hope for you is that in Series Three, you forget you ever had a reset button.

Oh God, please, YES.

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faynia June 9 2010, 15:26:54 UTC
It's so damn easy to blame Gaius, and he definitely is at fault, but I'm sure it'd be a LOT MORE HELPFUL IF THE MAIN CHARACTER HAD ANY THOUGHTS OF HIS OWN.

Ahem.

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